Gonionota rhacina

Gonionota rhacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Gonionota
Species:	G. rhacina
Binomial name
	Gonionota rhacina; Walsingham, 1912

Gonionota rhacina is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala.^[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are tawny reddish brown, with a reddish fawn patch at the base of the dorsum, extending to the upper edge of the cell as far as one-third from the base where it is narrowly produced to the costa, a group of separate blackish scales lying at its outer edge on the cell. Beyond, the middle the costa is deeply sinuate, the depressed portion narrowly white. The hindwings are reddish grey.^[2]

References[]

^ "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 130

This article on a moth of the subfamily Hypercalliinae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 130

[1]

[2]