Gonionota menura

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

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

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are amber brown with the basal third faintly blotched with carmine. Slightly before the middle of the costa is a small, ocherous-white, quadrate spot edged with carmine and at the outer third the costa is excavated and bordered with a white, carmine-edged, lunate mark. The remainder of the costa is very narrowly edged fuscous. In the cell at the basal third is a fuscous spot surrounded by a few carmine scales. The discal spot at the end of the cell is obsolete and between the end of the cell and termen is an ill-defined, transverse row of fuscous spots. The hindwings are ocherous white basally, shading to brown at the apex. ^[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Gonionota menura 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 .