Stenoma subita

Stenoma subita is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Bolivia.[1]

Stenoma subita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. subita
Binomial name
Stenoma subita
Meyrick, 1925

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, darkest towards the dorsum, with some ochreous-brownish suffusion in the middle of the disc and before the termen. The hindwings are white with a very broad dark fuscous terminal band occupying the posterior half of the wing throughout, the dorsum and subdorsal hairs suffused grey.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 224


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