Stenoma stabilis

Stenoma stabilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. stabilis
Binomial name
Stenoma stabilis (Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
Cryptolechia stabilisButler, 1877 Stenoma chionodoraMeyrick, 1915 Gonioterma ritaBusck, 1920

Stenoma stabilis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana and Brazil (Amazonas). ^[1]

The wingspan is 25–27 mm. The forewings are light brownish with the extreme costal edge whitish ochreous and with a small dark purple-fuscous spot on the costa before one-fourth, giving rise to a short oblique zigzag fuscous line. The plical and second discal stigmata are small, dark fuscous and obscure. There is a large triangular dark purple-fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, and a smaller one at three-fourths, where a curved series of sometimes indistinct dark fuscous dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus. There is also a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey whitish, somewhat greyer posteriorly. ^[2]

References

1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Description of Stenoma chionodora in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 464 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .