Gonionota rhacina

Gonionota rhacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species: G. rhacina
Binomial name
Gonionota rhacina
Walsingham, 1912

Gonionota rhacina is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala.[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are tawny reddish brown, with a reddish fawn patch at the base of the dorsum, extending to the upper edge of the cell as far as one-third from the base where it is narrowly produced to the costa, a group of separate blackish scales lying at its outer edge on the cell. Beyond, the middle the costa is deeply sinuate, the depressed portion narrowly white. The hindwings are reddish grey.[2]

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