Cerconota siraphora

Cerconota siraphora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Cerconota
Species:	C. siraphora
Binomial name
Cerconota siraphora (Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
Stenoma siraphora Meyrick, 1915 Stenoma leucosaris Meyrick, 1925

Cerconota siraphora is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil and Peru.^[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are greyish-violet with the extreme costal edge whitish and with some violet-fuscous suffusion towards the dorsum about one-fourth. The plical and second discal stigmata are dark fuscous and there is a small cloudy violet-fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, where a strongly curved series of dark fuscous dots runs to the dorsum at two-thirds. There is a rather larger flattened-triangular violet-fuscous spot on the costa at three-fourths, where a series of dark fuscous dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus, indented beneath the costa and curved outwards in the disc. There is a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. The hindwings are grey, paler towards the base.^[2]

References

1. Stenoma at funet
2. Exot. Microlep. 1 (15): 475