Gonionota gaiophanes is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1971. It is found in Brazil.[1]
| Gonionota gaiophanes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Gonionota |
| Species: | G. gaiophanes
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| Binomial name | |
| Gonionota gaiophanes J. F. G. Clarke, 1971
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The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are clay color, strongly overlaid with sayal brown and weakly mottled with fuscous. In the tornal area is an ill-defined fuscous blotch and on the termen from the apex to the tornus, are six fuscous transverse dashes. The basal third to the apical third of the costa is narrowly yellowish. The hindwings are pale clay color with a conspicuous fuscous shade between the 2nd and 3rd anals.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku. "Gonionota gaiophanes Clarke, 1971". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Clarke, J. F. Gates (1971). "Neotropical Microlepidoptera XIX: Notes on and New Species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (95).
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