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Cerconota tabida

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Cerconota tabida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cerconota
Species:
C. tabida
Binomial name
Cerconota tabida
(Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia tabida Butler, 1877
  • Cryptolechia salutaris Butler, 1877
  • Stenoma maroni Busck, 1911
  • Stenoma astacopis Meyrick, 1930

Cerconota tabida is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Pará and in the Guianas.[1]

The wingspan is 26–29 mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous with a slight fuscous-purplish mark on the costa at one-fourth and a broad oblique band more or less suffused brownish, the anterior edge formed by a suffused fuscous-purplish streak from the middle of the costa to one-fourth of the dorsum, the posterior by a triangular or trapezoidal fuscous-purplish blotch occupying the posterior third of the costa, within the band a pale semicircular antemedian dorsal blotch marked posteriorly by two curved suffused dark grey bars. The second discal stigma is grey or purplish, followed by a dot of pale suffusion and there is a light greyish shade running around this dot posteriorly, then continued as a distinct rather oblique grey line from beneath it to the dorsum, where it meets a curved grey line or shade from the costal blotch to the dorsum near the tornus, indented below the middle. There is also a terminal series of grey dots. The hindwings are grey, paler or ochreous whitish anteriorly.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Cerconota at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Description of Stenoma astacopis in Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 242 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.