Gonionota gaiophanes

Gonionota gaiophanes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species: G. gaiophanes
Binomial name
Gonionota gaiophanes
Clarke, 1971

Gonionota gaiophanes is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Clarke in 1971. It is found in Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are clay color, strongly overlaid with sayal brown and weakly mottled with fuscuous. In the tornal area is an ill-defined fuscous blotch and on the termen from the apex to the tornus, are six fuscous transverse dashes. The basal third to the apical third of the costa is narrowly yellowish. The hindwings are pale clay color with a conspicuous fuscous shade between the 2nd and 3rd anals.[2]

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