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Stenoma catharmosta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stenoma

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

The wingspan is 16-19 mm. The forewings are light pinkish ochroous with an irregular rounded blotch of blackish suffusion extending along the dorsum from one-fourth to three-fourths, and reaching half across the wing. The second discal stigma is blackish and there is a strongly curved series of blackish dots from two-thirds of the costa to the tornus, indented above the middle, as well as a series of blackish marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light grey, strewn with blackish hairscales.

References

Stenoma catharmosta Wikipedia