Gonioterma latipennis

Gonioterma latipennis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Colombia and French Guiana.[1]

Gonioterma latipennis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Gonioterma
Species:
G. latipennis
Binomial name
Gonioterma latipennis
(Zeller, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia latipennis Zeller, 1877
  • Stenoma algosa Meyrick, 1916

The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, the costa irregularly suffused with deep olive green, beneath this some fine scattered irregular whitish markings. The plical stigma is minute and dark fuscous with several white marginal dots around the apex, larger on the costa. The hindwings are ochreous whitish with a long pale greyish-ochreous hair-pencil from the base lying in a subdorsal fold.[2]

References

  1. "Gonioterma Walsingham, 1897" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Description of Stenoma algosa in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 537 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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