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Stenoma hemilampra

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Species of moth

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

Stenoma hemilampra is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.

The wingspan is 30–34 mm for males and about 40 mm for females. The forewings are violet fuscous, with a whitish gloss, the costa suffused with dark fuscous. There is an indistinct pale cloudy straight line, edged posteriorly with darker, from one-third of the costa to the middle of the dorsum. A strong black transverse mark is found on the end of the cell and there is a pale cloudy straight line, edged anteriorly with darker, from five-sixths of the costa to the tornus and there is a terminal series of black dots. The hindwings are grey, the apical half ochreous orange.

References

  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 470 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Stenoma hemilampra


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