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Gonionota sphenogramma

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Gonionota sphenogramma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species:
G. sphenogramma
Binomial name
Gonionota sphenogramma
J. F. G. Clarke, 1971

Gonionota sphenogramma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1971, and is found in Venezuela.[1]

The wingspan is 17–18 mm, and the forewings are brown with pronounced grey dusting, particularly in the basal half. At the basal two fifths of the costa is a small white spot preceded by dark grey and the basal third of the costa is yellowish. The costa at the middle, is dark grey, recurved, and followed outwardly by a shallow excavation, the latter white, broadened outwardly into a wedge-shaped mark, edged yellowish. On the costa, preceding the apex, is a slender white streak and the discal spot at the basal third is dark grey, at the end of the cell white. The tornus is dusted dark grey. The hindwings are light grey suffused brownish toward the margins.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Gonionota sphenogramma Clarke, 1971". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Clarke, J. F. Gates (1971). "Neotropical Microlepidoptera XIX: Notes on and New Species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (95).Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.