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Stenoma baliandra

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stenoma

Stenoma baliandra is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Suriname and Guyana.

The wingspan is 15-17 mm. The forewings are fuscous, somewhat mixed with brownish ochreous in the disc and on the veins posteriorly, in males irregularly mixed and marked with whitish between this suffusion. The costal edge is more or less marked with pale ochreous, especially on the median prominence. There are five very oblique irregular curved dentate blackish lines, the first two or three sometimes indistinct, the last running from beyond the middle of the costa strongly curved to the tornus. A series of blackish marginal marks is found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males strewn with blackish hairscales.

The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao.

References

Stenoma baliandra Wikipedia


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