''Linoclostis gonatias'' 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 Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in

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. The

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is about 23 mm. The forewings are shining white with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and there is a slender fuscous subterminal line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, almost right angled in the middle. There is a slender ochreous-brownish line along the apical sixth of the costa. The hindwings are grey whitish.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18 (3): 626.

References

Xyloryctidae Moths described in 1908 {{Xyloryctidae-stub