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Stagmatophora pilana

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Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with a slender irregular white streak along the dorsum from the base to beyond the tornus, posteriorly partially suffused with brownish-ochreous, edged above by two raised black dots at one-fourth, and at the middle of the wing, the second edged anteriorly with white. There is a short black apical dash, partially edged above with white. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.

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