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Stenoma heteroxantha

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stenoma

Stenoma heteroxantha is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Paraguay and Brazil.

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are orange yellow, with the costal edge whitish and the stigmata small, indistinct and violet brownish, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There are rather small violet-brownish spots on the costa at the middle and three-fourths, and on the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey or whitish grey.

References

Stenoma heteroxantha Wikipedia