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Gonionota citronota

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Gonionota

Gonionota citronota is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are whitish-fuscous irrorated dark fuscous, suffused ferruginous except towards the dorsum and termen. The extreme costal edge is rosy and there is a suffused yellow spot along the dorsum near the base, as well as a small wedge-shaped yellow spot along the costa at two-thirds, the costal edge whitish. The hindwings are grey whitish, the apex slightly suffused light grey, the terminal edge grey on the upper half.

References

Gonionota citronota Wikipedia