Cerconota rosacea

Cerconota rosacea is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Amazon region and French Guiana.[1]

Cerconota rosacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Cerconota
Species:
C. rosacea
Binomial name
Cerconota rosacea
(Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia rosacea Butler, 1877
  • Stenoma erotarcha Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is 29–31 mm. The forewings are light rosy-fuscous, suffused with pink towards the costa and with the dorsal area suffused with darker fuscous on the basal half. A straight dark fuscous shade from one-fourth of the costa to beyond the middle of the dorsum, suffused posteriorly. There is a short cloudy fuscous transverse mark on the costa before the middle and two small faintly connected dark fuscous dots transversely placed on the end of the cell. A slightly curved dark fuscous transverse line at five-sixths, preceded on the costal half by a large blotch of dark fuscous suffusion. There is also a terminal series of small black dots. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, the apical half suffused with pale rosy-crimson.[2]

References
  1. "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Description of Stenoma erotarcha in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 471


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