Gonionota Eurydryas
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''Gonionota eurydryas'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found in
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and
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. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 17 mm. The forewings are brown, with a faint purplish tinge, speckled grey, crossed by indistinct paler transverse striae, towards the anterior half of the costa suffused darker, the posterior half of the costa and termen speckled white. The discal stigmata are small and dark fuscous and there is a short oblique mark of white irroration from the costa before the middle, and a white mark on the costal edge at the beginning of the white irroration, the costa between these darker brown. There is a dark brown mark on the costal edge at three-fourths. The hindwings are greyish ochreous.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (10): 314
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Moths described in 1926 Gonionota {{Hypercalliinae-stub