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Stenoma surinamella

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Stenoma surinamella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species:
S. surinamella
Binomial name
Stenoma surinamella
(Möschler, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia surinamella Möschler, 1883
  • Stenoma expilata Meyrick, 1915

Stenoma surinamella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Guianas and Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is 26–31 mm for males and about 38 mm for females. The forewings are whitish ochreous with the extreme costal edge whitish. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the first discal indistinct, the plical obliquely beyond it. There is a faintly indicated irregularly curved fuscous shade from the middle of the costa to two-thirds of the dorsum and a curved series of cloudy fuscous lunulate dots from four-fifths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, sinuate inwards beneath the costa. A marginal series of small dark fuscous dots is found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are whitish yellowish, in females faintly greyish tinged on the basal half.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Description of Stenoma expilata in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 469Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.