Stenoma albida

Stenoma albida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. albida
Binomial name
	Stenoma albida; (Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
	Cryptolechia disjecta var. albida Walker, 1864;

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

Adults are whitish with broad wings, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips, with six or seven brown streaks in front and two longer and hinder brown streaks extending from the base of the wing, narrowly divided from a large brown spot. A second large brown spot is found beyond the first one and resting on the interior angle and there is a row of submarginal brown streaks. The exterior border is nearly straight and not oblique. The hindwings are brownish cinereous.[2]

References

"Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 712

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[1] "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 712