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Cerconota phaeophanes

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Species of moth

Cerconota phaeophanes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cerconota
Species: C. phaeophanes
Binomial name
Cerconota phaeophanes
(Meyrick, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma phaeophanes Meyrick, 1912

Cerconota phaeophanes is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Colombia.

The wingspan is 24–27 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with three very faint darker transverse lines, the first two hardly curved, the first from one-fourth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the second from the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, the third irregularly curved from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous and located on the second line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

  1. "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 714 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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