Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Cerconota | |
Cerconota ebenocista is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in French Guiana.
The wingspan is 23-24 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with an oblong dark fuscous blotch occupying the dorsal half of the wing from the base to near the middle, becoming black on the upper edge and there margined by a suffused brown streak. The second discal stigma is small or minute, blackish, with faint blotches of pale fulvous suffusion before and beyond this. There are small fuscous marks on the costa at one-fourth, the middle, and three-fourths, from the first runs an angulated line to the angle of the dorsal blotch indicated by two marks only, from the second runs an irregular curved line faintly expressed through the posterior discal fulvous cloud to the dorsum before the tornus, and from the third runs a curved irregular fuscous line or series of cloudy dots to the tornus. There is a marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots around the apical part of the costa and termen, slightly pre-marginal at the apex. The hindwings are light greyish, darker terminally, the costal area ochreous-whitish, a subcostal long ochreous-whitish hairpencil from the base to four-fifths.