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Stenoma stabilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. stabilis
Binomial name
Stenoma stabilis (Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
Cryptolechia stabilis Butler, 1877 Stenoma chionodora Meyrick, 1915 Gonioterma rita Busck, 1920

Stenoma stabilis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana and Brazil (Amazonas).

The wingspan is 25–27 mm. The forewings are light brownish with the extreme costal edge whitish ochreous and with a small dark purple-fuscous spot on the costa before one-fourth, giving rise to a short oblique zigzag fuscous line. The plical and second discal stigmata are small, dark fuscous and obscure. There is a large triangular dark purple-fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, and a smaller one at three-fourths, where a curved series of sometimes indistinct dark fuscous dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus. There is also a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey whitish, somewhat greyer posteriorly.

References

1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Description of Stenoma chionodora in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 464 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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