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Gonionota gaiophanes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Gonionota

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

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.

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Gonionota gaiophanes Wikipedia