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Cerconota minna

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Cerconota minna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cerconota
Species:
C. minna
Binomial name
Cerconota minna
(Busck, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Gonioterma minna Busck, 1914
  • Stenoma orthridia Meyrick, 1916

Cerconota minna is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Panama, the Guianas, Bolivia and Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is 23–25 mm. The forewings are fuscous with the costa narrowly suffused with pale purplish, towards the base darker purplish-fuscous, the extreme costal edge sometimes partially whitish. There is a narrow dark purplish-fuscous mark along the costa in the middle, and a stronger one on the costa from two-thirds to near the apex and a suffused purplish-brown streak from one-fourth of the dorsum to the lower angle of the cell, as well as a very indistinct small dark fuscous dot on the upper angle of the cell. A very faint darker waved line or series of dots is found from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum near the tornus, obtusely bent in the disc. The terminal edge is tinged with bronzy-brown, with indistinct small dark fuscous dots. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Description of Stenoma orthridia in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 520Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.