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Gonionota pialea

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Species of moth

Gonionota pialea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species: G. pialea
Binomial name
Gonionota pialea
(Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Hypercallia pialea Meyrick, 1921

Gonionota pialea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Brazil (Para).

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are ferruginous brown with a slightly paler oblique mark from the costa at two-fifths, followed by some rather darker suffusion. There is a fine white very oblique strigula on the costa at three-fourths. The discal stigmata are dark ferruginous fuscous, the first minute and the second rather small. There is also a darker terminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

  1. "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (13): 389 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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