Gonionota mimulina

Gonionota mimulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonionota
Species: G. mimulina
Binomial name
Gonionota mimulina
(Butler, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Agriocoma mimulina Butler, 1883
  • Agriocoma mimulina araucana Bartlett-Calvert, 1893

Gonionota mimulina is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Butler in 1883. It is found in Chile.[1]

The wingspan is 17-19 mm. The forewings are bright sulphur-yellow with a stripe along the base of the costal nervure reddish, spotted with blackish, and joining at basal third the commencement of a broad triangular reddish patch with blackish edges, which extends nearly to apex, and is spotted on the costal margin and at its inferior angle with white. There is an externo-discal series of minute blackish dots, sometimes obsolete. The hindwings are sericeous snow-white.[2]

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