Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Stegasta | |
Stegasta zygotoma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and on the Galapagos Islands
The wingspan is 9–11 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, sometimes suffused with deep ferruginous-bronze, slightly whitish-sprinkled. There are two connected ochreous-white triangular blotches occupying the dorsum from near the base to near the tornus, sometimes much suffused with grey irroration, especially dorsally, the first narrowly reaching the costa at one-fifth, the second reaching nearly half across the wing, its apex connected with an indistinct whitish dot on the middle of the costa by a faint grey or grey-whitish cloud in which is a more or less strongly expressed blackish dot, representing the first discal stigma. The second discal stigma is close beyond this, blackish, sometimes edged below with white or yellowish, or obsolete. There is also a slightly inwards-oblique transverse white spot on the costa at three-fourths, tending to connect with a leaden-grey spot on the tornus and the apical area is sometimes irrorated with grey-whitish. The hindwings are grey or light grey, darker posteriorly.