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Stenoma argospora

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Species of moth

Stenoma argospora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species: S. argospora
Binomial name
Stenoma argospora
Meyrick, 1915

Stenoma argospora is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana and Guyana.

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge and some small scattered irregular dots of white scales on the median third of the wing in the cell and a very faint curved subterminal series of small darker spots, and a marginal streak around the apex. The hindwings are blackish, in males with scattered hairscales.

References

  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (14): 443 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Stenoma argospora


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