Gonionota dryodesma

Gonionota dryodesma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species: G. dryodesma
Binomial name
Gonionota dryodesma
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Hypercallia dryodesma Meyrick, 1916
  • Hypercallia dryocrypta Meyrick, 1931

Gonionota dryodesma is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1916. It is found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela and French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are yellow, reticulated throughout with ferruginous-red. There is a purple-fuscous streak along the costa throughout, darkest on the costal edge, interrupted by oblique strigulae of groundcolour at two-fifths and three-fourths. There is a broad purplish-brown median transverse fascia, considerably dilated on the dorsum. The discal stigmata are placed on the margins of this, they are blackish, the first minute and the second rather large. There is also a curved series of cloudy dark fuscous dots rising from this fascia near the costa and returning to it near the dorsum and there is a purple-brown streak along the termen. The hindwings are whitish-yellowish.[2]

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