Rhodanassa

Rhodanassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Rhodanassa Meyrick, 1915
Species:	R. io
Binomial name
Rhodanassa io (Busck, 1911)
Synonyms
Stenoma io Busck, 1911 Rhodanassa callimnestra Meyrick, 1915

Rhodanassa io is a moth of the Depressariidae family and only species in the Rhodanassa genus. It is found in French Guiana.^[1]

The wingspan is about 37 mm. The forewings are glossy lilac-purple, the apical area beyond an undefined line from two-thirds of the costa to the tornus purplish-brown, the costa suffused with darker brown throughout. There is a grey-whitish quadrangular spot in the disc before the middle, a small oval black spot centred with brown-whitish and ringed with grey-whitish on the fold somewhat beyond this, and a rather large quadrangular black spot edged with grey-whitish and including a fine whitish line parallel to its posterior edge in the disc beyond the middle. There is a hardly perceptible faintly darker sinuate line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus. The hindwings are bright deep rose. The forewings beneath have an elongate discal patch of light brassy-ochreous modified scales, extending over the upper part of the cell and above its margin from before the middle to the end, occupying about one-fourth of the width of the wing.^[2]

References

1. Rhodanassa at funet
2. Description of Rhodanassa callimnestra in Exot. Microlep. 1 (15): 480