Stenoma platyphylla

Stenoma platyphylla is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

Stenoma platyphylla
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S. platyphylla
Binomial name
Stenoma platyphylla
Meyrick, 1916

The wingspan is 17–18 mm. The forewings are brown, indistinctly and suffusedly streaked with darker and with a large green patch extending along the dorsum from the base to three-fourths and reaching more than half across the wing, edged above by a dark fuscous streak from the base to one-third of the wing. The hindwings are grey with the apical edge whitish ochreous.[2]

References

  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 540


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