Cerconota phaeophanes is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Colombia. The wingspan is 24-27 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with three very faint darker transverse lines, the first two hardly curved, the first from one-fourth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the second from the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, the third irregularly curved from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous and located on the second line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.