Stagmatophora pilana

Stagmatophora pilana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Stagmatophora
Species:	S. pilana
Binomial name
	Stagmatophora pilana; Meyrick, 1913

Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a slender irregular white streak along the dorsum from the base to beyond the tornus, posteriorly partially suffused with brownish ochreous, edged above by two raised black dots at one-fourth, and at the middle of the wing, the second edged anteriorly with white. There is a short black apical dash, partially edged above with white. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.[2]

References

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 307–308 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.

[2] Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 307–308 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.