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Gonionota lecithitis (Meyrick)

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Gonionota lecithitis (Meyrick)

Coptotelia lecithitis Meyrick, 1912: 703.—Clarke 1963:238, pl. 116: figs. 4–4b.

Male genitalia slides JFGC 4007, 12213. Harpe broadest about middle; cucullus rounded; clasper terminating in a cluster of curved spines. Gnathos an oval spined knob. Uncus a broadly based stalk dilated posteriorly. Socii, small, narrow setaceous ridges. Vinculum U-shaped. Tegumen two thirds the length of harpe. Anellus a broad plate basally, narrowed posteriorly, terminating in two divergent points. Aedeagus moderately stout, curved distally ending in a small peak; vesica armed with a strongly barbed cornutus.

Female genitalia slide JFGC 4008. Ostium round, ventral edge irregular. Genital plate narrow. Antrum somewhat thickened. Inception of ductus seminalis at anterior edge of antrum. Ductus bursae membranous, short. Bursa copulatrix membranous. Signum faintly indicated.

TYPE.—British Museum (Natural History).

TYPE LOCALITY.—Argentina, Paraná.

DISTRIBUTION.—Argentina.

The illustration in Clarke (1963) is inadequate. The cucullus appears pointed in the photograph and is the result of pressure on the genitalia. Moreover the barbed cornutus and the small peak at the distal end of the aedeagus do not show in Figure 4a. The female has not been illustrated previously and is included for the sake of completeness. It is figured from a specimen from Tucumán, Argentina.
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Clarke, J. F. Gates. 1971. "Neotropical Microlepidoptera XIX: notes on and new species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-39. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.95

Gonionota lecithitis

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Gonionota lecithitis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in Argentina.[1]

The wingspan is 15–18 mm. The forewings are ferruginous brownish, sometimes sprinkled with dark fuscous and with an ochreous-yellowish basal patch occupying nearly two-fifths of the wing, reticulated with ferruginous brownish and marked with a brown costal streak, the outer edge curved. The first discal stigma is small and white, with some dark fuscous scales, the second dark fuscous, preceded by pale yellowish suffusion. There is a small oblique suffused white mark on the costa at two-thirds, and some white irroration beyond this. A streak of blackish irroration is found between veins 2 and 3 and sometimes there is a subterminal series of cloudy blackish dots. There is also a cloudy dark fuscous terminal line or series of dots. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Gonionota Zeller, 1877" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 703 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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Gonionota lecithitis: Brief Summary

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Gonionota lecithitis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in Argentina.

The wingspan is 15–18 mm. The forewings are ferruginous brownish, sometimes sprinkled with dark fuscous and with an ochreous-yellowish basal patch occupying nearly two-fifths of the wing, reticulated with ferruginous brownish and marked with a brown costal streak, the outer edge curved. The first discal stigma is small and white, with some dark fuscous scales, the second dark fuscous, preceded by pale yellowish suffusion. There is a small oblique suffused white mark on the costa at two-thirds, and some white irroration beyond this. A streak of blackish irroration is found between veins 2 and 3 and sometimes there is a subterminal series of cloudy blackish dots. There is also a cloudy dark fuscous terminal line or series of dots. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.

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