Cerconota brachyplaca

Cerconota brachyplaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cerconota
Species: C. brachyplaca
Binomial name
Cerconota brachyplaca
(Meyrick, 1926)
Synonyms
  • Ptilogenes brachyplaca Meyrick, 1926

Cerconota brachyplaca is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil and French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 20-21 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with the costal edge more ochreous, grey at the base. There is a subquadrate purple-blackish blotch on the dorsum towards the base, margined above with brown suffusion. There is a purplish-grey mark on the costa at one-fourth, a small triangular spot on the middle of the costa, three or four marks in a subcostal series beneath these, and a shadowy mark indicating the termination of the series from the dorsum at four-fifths. There is some brownish-ochreous suffusion above the middle of the disc, and another cloud beyond the blackish second discal stigma. A flattened-triangular purplish-grey spot is found on the costa about three-fourths, where a curved grey line becoming a series of dots below middle runs to the tornus. The apical and terminal edge ochreous with a purplish-grey waved line around the apex becoming dotted below. The hindwings are light grey suffused whitish-ochreous towards the base.[2]

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