Gonioterma conchita

Gonioterma conchita is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guatemala and Colombia.[1]

Gonioterma conchita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Gonioterma
Species:
G. conchita
Binomial name
Gonioterma conchita
Busck, 1920
Synonyms
  • Stenoma desidiosa Meyrick, 1925

The wingspan is 26–27 mm. The forewings are light brownish, faintly violet tinged, the extreme costal edge whitish. The second discal stigma is fuscous, tending to be transversely double and there are undefined cloudy fuscous spots on the costa at the middle and three-fourths. There is a marginal series of rather dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale ochreous yellowish.[2]

References
  1. "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Description of Stenoma desidiosa in Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 201


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