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Cerconota miseta

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Cerconota miseta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cerconota
Species:
C. miseta
Binomial name
Cerconota miseta
(Walsingham, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma miseta Walsingham, 1913

Cerconota miseta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1913. It is found in Costa Rica and French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are greyish brown, with a peculiar brassy grey (in some lights almost greenish) metallic sheen. Some almost obsolete darker markings are scarcely discernible; a small patch on the upper edge of the cell at about one-third, a sinuate streak from the costa beyond the middle, bowed outward and apparently continued to the dorsum at two-thirds, and a somewhat similar sinuate line nearer to the apex, also bowed outward at its middle and produced downward to the tornus. There is also a dark spot at the end of the cell. The hindwings are brownish fuscous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Cerconota at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 180Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.