Gonioterma expansa
Gonioterma expansa is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).[1]
| Gonioterma expansa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Gonioterma |
| Species: | G. expansa |
| Binomial name | |
| Gonioterma expansa (Meyrick, 1915) | |
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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
- "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 464
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