''Gonionota acrocosma'' 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 ...

in 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 was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1912. It is found in

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

. 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 about 19 mm. The forewings are deep purplish brown with the basal third lighter brown, the outer edge straight, inwardly oblique, the costal edge pinkish. The dorsum beyond this is darker suffused and the first discal stigma is represented by a few white scales, the second by a few dark fuscous and whitish. The costal edge towards the middle is dark fuscous, posteriorly suffused with ferruginous yellow tipped with rose pink. The hindwings are grey.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1911 (4): 702

References

Moths described in 1912 Gonionota {{Hypercalliinae-stub