Cerconota Flexibilis
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''Cerconota flexibilis'' is a
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the family
Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide. Subfamilies Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies: * Acriinae ...
. It is found in
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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 opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...
is 23–24 mm. The forewings are whitish-violet-fuscous with the costal edge whitish and with a suffused dark fuscous streak from the base of the dorsum curved upwards to beneath the middle of the wing and then descending to the tornus, narrowly obliquely interrupted at two-thirds, the dorsal area within this mostly suffused with violet, and including a slender violet-blackish somewhat upcurved subdorsal streak in its median portion and another above the posterior portion of this running into the upper streak towards the tornus. The second discal stigma is small and dark grey and there is a slight oblique grey strigula from the costa before the middle, where a very oblique series of several cloudy dark fuscous dots runs to the disc beyond the cell. There is also a small triangular violet-fuscous apical blotch and a transverse mark of blackish suffusion before the termen in the middle, as well as a terminal series of subquadrate black dots suffused with dark brown. The hindwings are grey, becoming darker posteriorly.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (17): 538


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Moths described in 1916 Cerconota Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Stenomatinae-stub