Gonionota eurydryas

Gonionota eurydryas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Gonionota
Species:	G. eurydryas
Binomial name
	Gonionota eurydryas; (Meyrick, 1926)
Synonyms
	Hypercallia eurydryas Meyrick, 1926;

Gonionota eurydryas is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found in Brazil and Colombia.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are brown, with a faint purplish tinge, speckled grey, crossed by indistinct paler transverse striae, towards the anterior half of the costa suffused darker, the posterior half of the costa and termen speckled white. The discal stigmata are small and dark fuscous and there is a short oblique mark of white irroration from the costa before the middle, and a white mark on the costal edge at the beginning of the white irroration, the costa between these darker brown. There is a dark brown mark on the costal edge at three-fourths. The hindwings are greyish ochreous.[2]

References

"Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (10): 314

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[1] "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (10): 314