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Gonioterma choleroptila

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Gonioterma choleroptila
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonioterma
Species:
G. choleroptila
Binomial name
Gonioterma choleroptila
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma choleroptila Meyrick, 1915

Gonioterma choleroptila is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 16–21 mm. The forewings are white, tinged with fuscous, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous and with a dark fuscous dot near the base in the middle, and one on the base of the costa. There is a small dark fuscous spot on the costa at one-fourth, and larger rounded ones at the middle and four-fifths. The stigmata are small and dark fuscous, the plical midway between the discal. A curved series of cloudy dark fuscous dots is found from the third costal spot to the dorsum before the tornus and there is a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are whitish, towards the apex faintly yellowish tinged.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 467 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.