Gonioterma burmanniana

Gonioterma burmanniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Gonioterma
Species:	G. burmanniana
Binomial name
	Gonioterma burmanniana; (Stoll, [1782])
Synonyms
	Phalaena burmanniana Stoll, [1782]; Phalaena burmaniana Stoll, [1781]; Cryptolechia tortricella Walker, 1864;

Gonioterma burmanniana is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found in Brazil.[1]

Adults are whitish yellow, with the forewings acutely rectangular at the tips, with four deep black costal marks. The first mark basal and the third larger than the fourth, and much larger than the first and than the second. There is a submarginal slightly outward-curved line of black points, ending in the fourth costal mark and the fringe is blackish cupreous. The hindwings have a slight aeneous tinge and the fringe is cupreous along the fore part of the exterior border.[2]

References

"Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
Description of Cryptolechia tortricella in List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 723

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[1] "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Description of Cryptolechia tortricella in List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 723