Cerconota ischnoscia

Cerconota ischnoscia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Brazil.[1]

Cerconota ischnoscia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Cerconota
Species:
C. ischnoscia
Binomial name
Cerconota ischnoscia
(Meyrick, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma ischnoscia Meyrick, 1932

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous, with the bases of the scales grey and the extreme costal edge pale. There are three faint cloudy rather irregular nearly parallel oblique greyish lines, the first obsolete on the costa, the second about the middle of the wing, the third from the costa about three-fifths to the dorsum before the tornus, somewhat curved. There are three or four small faint darker terminal dots. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. Cerconota at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (10): 298


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