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Gonioterma burmanniana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Gonioterma

Gonioterma burmanniana is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found in Brazil.

Adults are whitish yellow, with the forewings acutely rectangular at the tips, with four deep black costal marks. The first mark basal and the third larger than the fourth, and much larger than the first and than the second. There is a submarginal slightly outward-curved line of black points, ending in the fourth costal mark and the fringe is blackish cupreous. The hindwings have a slight aeneous tinge and the fringe is cupreous along the fore part of the exterior border.

References

Gonioterma burmanniana Wikipedia