Stenoma fusistrigella

Stenoma fusistrigella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas).[1]

Stenoma fusistrigella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. fusistrigella
Binomial name
Stenoma fusistrigella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia fusistrigella Walker, 1864
  • Cryptolechia faecosa Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875

Adults are very pale fawn colour with broad wings, the forewings rectangular at the tips, with a diffuse oblique dark fawn-coloured band, which extends from before the middle of the costa to the base of the interior border. There is a blackish point in the disc at two-thirds of the length and there are very minute marginal points of dark fawn colour. The exterior border is nearly straight and hardly oblique. The hindwings are yellowish cinereous.[2]

References
  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: 725


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