Stenoma chalepa

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Stenoma chalepa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species:
S. chalepa
Binomial name
Stenoma chalepa
Walsingham, 1913

Stenoma chalepa is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1913. It is found in Panama. [1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, mottled with dull fawn ochreous near the base, the greater portion of their surface beyond being sprinkled with slender elongate bluish white hair-scales, from which the costa and an ill-defined reduplicated subapical band, parallel with the margin, are comparatively free. The hindwings are umber brown. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ↑ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 173 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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