Gonioterma latipennis

Gonioterma latipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Gonioterma
Species:	G. latipennis
Binomial name
	Gonioterma latipennis; (Zeller, 1877)
Synonyms
	Cryptolechia latipennis Zeller, 1877; Stenoma algosa Meyrick, 1916;

Gonioterma latipennis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Colombia and French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, the costa irregularly suffused with deep olive green, beneath this some fine scattered irregular whitish markings. The plical stigma is minute and dark fuscous with several white marginal dots around the apex, larger on the costa. The hindwings are ochreous whitish with a long pale greyish-ochreous hair-pencil from the base lying in a subdorsal fold.[2]

References

"Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Description of Stenoma algosa in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 537

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

[2] Description of Stenoma algosa in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 537