Cerconota achatina is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Colombia, Guyana and French Guiana.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Cerconota |
| Species: | C. achatina
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| Binomial name | |
| Cerconota achatina (Zeller, 1855)
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The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are fuscous-purple with the costal edge ochreous-whitish on the anterior half and with a patch of darker fuscous-purple suffusion on the basal fourth of the dorsum, reaching half across the wing, the dorsal scale-projection suffused with ferruginous-brown. There is a very elongate-triangular dark reddish-fuscous patch extending along the costa from before the middle to near the apex, reaching one-fourth across the wing, edged beneath with pale ochreous. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the first discal adjoining the dorsal patch, the plical indistinct, the second discal forming a small transverse-oval spot, followed by a blotch of pale ochreous suffusion touching the costal patch and sending a dark fuscous shade edged by two indistinct pale ochreous lines to the dorsum before the tornus. There is also a fine dark fuscous terminal line. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous tinged with grey except towards the base and apex in males and dark grey in females.[2]
References
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- ^ "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Description of Stenoma lembifera in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (14): 440
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