Filinota gratiosa

Filinota gratiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Filinota
Species: F. gratiosa
Binomial name
Filinota gratiosa
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Lecithocera gratiosa Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Filinota peruviella Busck, 1911

Filinota gratiosa is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Felder and Rogenhofer in 1875. It is found in Venezuela, Brazil and Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light yellow with carmine and blackish-brown streaks. The base of the costal edge is carmine, and there are three longitudinal carmine lines on the basal part of the wing. A narrow blackish-brown line shaped like a V runs from the basal fourth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum and back to the apical third of the costa. This line is lightly edged with carmine. Across the tip of the wing runs a similar brown line, also edged with carmine, parallel with the outer leg of the V and connected with it by two longitudinal, somewhat oblique carmine lines. The hindwings are silvery white.[2]

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