''Acraga ochracea'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family

Dalceridae The Dalceridae are a small family of zygaenoid moths with some 80 known species encompassing about one dozen genera mostly found in the Neotropical region with a few reaching the far south of the Nearctic region. These are generally small or m ...

. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in southern

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and northern

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. The length of the forewings is 9–13 mm for males and 16–17 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology'' 153(4): 1–495. Full Article

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