Cerconota obsordescens

Cerconota obsordescens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

Cerconota obsordescens
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C. obsordescens
Binomial name
Cerconota obsordescens
(Meyrick, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Pomphocrita obsordescens Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous with the costa slenderly whitish-ochreous from the base to the apex and finely continued around the termen, the edged beneath slenderly with rather dark grey suffusion, beneath this some broader whitish-ochreous suffusion towards the base. The dorsal area is broadly suffused pale ochreous-yellowish and there is a triangular reddish-fuscous spot on the dorsum before the middle and a greyish mark on the transverse vein. The hindwings are light grey.[2]

References

  1. Cerconota at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 238


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