''Gonionota cristata'' is a
moth
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in the family
Depressariidae. It was described by
Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in
Panama
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.
The
wingspan
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is about 17 mm. The forewings are rich reddish ochreous at the base, very dark brownish beyond, the basal third with some admixture of ochreous and dark fuscous scaling. A curved line of dark fuscous marks the not-very-clearly defined, outwardly-bowed edge of the bright basal patch, in the middle of which a shorter line of similar scales crosses the fold, others lying along the line of the fold itself. Commencing a little before the outer fourth of the costa is a line of white scale-spots, tending at first very obliquely outward, but bent down parallel to the termen from a point opposite the apex. There is also a minute white spot at the end of the cell. The hindwings are dark brownish fuscous.
''Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera'' 4: 129
References
Moths described in 1912
Gonionota
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