Gonionota captans
Gonionota captans is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil.[1]
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The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brown with a reddish-crimson oblique-triangular blotch on the base of the dorsum, reaching half across the wing, its apex including a blackish dot and just reaching the tip of a similar rather oblique bar from the costa at one-third and a white wedge-shaped mark along the costa at two-thirds, as well as a suffÂused crimson dot on the end of the cell. The hindwings are light grey.[2]
References
- "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (5): 121
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