Desmia paucimaculalis

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| taxon = Desmia paucimaculalis

| authority = Hampson, 1898

| synonyms = *Desmia sepulchralis Warren, 1889 (preocc. Guenée)

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Desmia paucimaculalis is a moth in the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1898.{{cite web |last=Nuss |first=M. |display-authors=etal |date=2003–2017 |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=April 6, 2018}} It is found in Amazonas in Brazil{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/crambidae/pyraustinae/desmia/#paucimaculalis |title=Desmia paucimaculalis Hampson, 1898 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=April 6, 2018}} and in Honduras.

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The wings are black, the forewings with a small subtriangular hyaline (glass-like) spot in the cell and an elongate wedge-shaped bar beyond the cell. There is an oblique antemedial hyaline band on the hindwings.{{cite journal |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |date=November 15, 1898 |url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen98scie#page/632/mode/1up |title=A Revision of the Moths of the Subfamily Pyraustinae and Family Pyralidae |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |page=632 |via=Internet Archive}} {{PD-notice}}