Gonioterma expansa

Gonioterma expansa is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).[1]

Gonioterma expansa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Gonioterma
Species:
G. expansa
Binomial name
Gonioterma expansa
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma expansa Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish with rather large triangular dark fuscous spots on the costa at the middle and three-fourths. The second discal stigma is small and dark fuscous. The hindwings are ochreous whitish, the dorsum with a group of long expansible ochreous-whitish hairs spreading over the abdomen, but not collected into a defined pencil.[2]

References
  1. "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 464


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