Gonionota pyrocausta

Gonionota pyrocausta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Colombia.[1]

Gonionota pyrocausta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Gonionota
Species:
G. pyrocausta
Binomial name
Gonionota pyrocausta
(Meyrick, 1931)
Synonyms
  • Hypercallia pyrocausta Meyrick, 1931

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 first 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.[2]

References
  1. "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (5): 121


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