Gonionota amauroptera

Gonionota amauroptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Gonionota
Species:	G. amauroptera
Binomial name
Gonionota amauroptera J. F. G. Clarke, 1971

Gonionota amauroptera is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1971. It is found in Argentina. ^[1]

The wingspan is 16–20 mm. The forewings are hazel with the costa narrowly reddish, the extreme edge whitish. At the basal fifth is an indistinct, transverse, fuscous fascia and a similar outwardly oblique one at two fifths. At the apical third of the costa is a wedge-shaped spot varying from white to reddish and there is a pair of minute black discal spots in the cell at the basal third. At the end of the cell is a black-edged white spot and the base of the dorsum is yellow becoming orange rufous toward the tornus. On the termen is an ill-defined row of fuscous spots. The hindwings are ocherous white basally, shading to pale brownish apically. ^[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Gonionota amauroptera Clarke, 1971". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
2. Clarke, J. F. Gates (1971). "Neotropical Microlepidoptera XIX: Notes on and New Species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (95). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .