Gonionota pialea

Gonionota pialea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

Gonionota pialea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Gonionota
Species:
G. pialea
Binomial name
Gonionota pialea
(Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Hypercallia pialea Meyrick, 1921

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are ferruginous brown with a slightly paler oblique mark from the costa at two-fifths, followed by some rather darker suffusion. There is a fine white very oblique strigula on the costa at three-fourths. The discal stigmata are dark ferruginous fuscous, the first minute and the second rather small. There is also a darker terminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References
  1. "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (13): 389


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