Cerconota anonella

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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| name= Annona fruit borer

| image = Sepp-Surinaamsche vlinders - pl 137 plate descr. as Phalaena anonella with Annona muricata.jpg

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| image_caption = C. anonella on Annona muricata

| taxon = Cerconota anonella

| authority = (Sepp, 1830)

| synonyms ={{Specieslist

|Phalaena anonella|Sepp, 1855

|Stenoma hamon|Busck, 1911

|Stenoma strophalodes|Meyrick, 1915

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Cerconota anonella, the annona fruit borer, is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Suriname, French Guiana, Peru,[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/depressariidae/stenomatinae/cerconota/ "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Honduras and on Hispaniola.

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are white, anteriorly with scattered fuscous specks and with a straight cloudy fuscous shade from one-fifth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, as well as a small dark fuscous spot representing the second discal stigma. There is an irregular fuscous shade from the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, obtusely angulated in the middle. A curved fuscous line is found from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, indented towards the costa. There is also a series of dark fuscous marginal marks around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.[https://archive.org/stream/exoticmicrolepid01meyr#page/454/mode/1up Description of Stenoma strophalodes in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 454] {{PD-notice}}

It is known to cause significant damage to the fruits of plant genus Annona.{{cite journal|title=Reproductive Behaviour of the Annona Fruit Borer, Cerconota anonella|author=MDa Silva, E. L.|author2=De Carvalho, C. M.|author3=Do Nascimento, R. R.|author4=Mendonça, A. L.|author5=Da Silva, C. E.|author6=Gonçalves, G. B.|author7=De Freitas, M. d. R. T.|author8=Sant'Ana, A. E. G.|name-list-style=amp|date=October 2006|doi=10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01255.x|volume=112|issue = 10|journal=Ethology|pages=971–976|doi-access=free}}