Cerconota tabida

Cerconota tabida is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Pará and in the Guianas.[1]

Cerconota tabida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Cerconota
Species:
C. tabida
Binomial name
Cerconota tabida
(Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia tabida Butler, 1877
  • Cryptolechia salutaris Butler, 1877
  • Stenoma maroni Busck, 1911
  • Stenoma astacopis Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is 26–29 mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous with a slight fuscous-purplish mark on the costa at one-fourth and a broad oblique band more or less suffused brownish, the anterior edge formed by a suffused fuscous-purplish streak from the middle of the costa to one-fourth of the dorsum, the posterior by a triangular or trapezoidal fuscous-purplish blotch occupying the posterior third of the costa, within the band a pale semicircular antemedian dorsal blotch marked posteriorly by two curved suffused dark grey bars. The second discal stigma is grey or purplish, followed by a dot of pale suffusion and there is a light greyish shade running around this dot posteriorly, then continued as a distinct rather oblique grey line from beneath it to the dorsum, where it meets a curved grey line or shade from the costal blotch to the dorsum near the tornus, indented below the middle. There is also a terminal series of grey dots. The hindwings are grey, paler or ochreous whitish anteriorly.[2]

References
  1. Cerconota at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Description of Stenoma astacopis in Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 242


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