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Gonionota pyrocausta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Gonionota

Gonionota pyrocausta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Colombia.

The wingspan is 22-24 mm. The forewings are orange yellow almost wholly suffused crimson and with a slight snow-white mark on the costa at two-fifths, and a crescentic spot on the sinus at three-fourths, the costal edge suffused dark fuscous between these and less markedly elsewhere. Sometimes, there is a blackish streak along the dorsum. The discal stigmata are minute and blackish or dark grey. There are two indistinct irregular grey transverse lines, the first at two-fifths, somewhat oblique, the second at three-fourths, excurved above the middle. The posterior area is variably infuscated, becoming dark fuscous along the termen. The hindwings are ochreous whitish, the posterior half suffused pale greyish rosy.

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Gonionota pyrocausta Wikipedia