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Stenoma reticens

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stenoma

Stenoma reticens is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Bengal, southern India and South Africa.

The wingspan is 13–16 mm. The forewings are light glossy greyish ochreous, greyer in females. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical and first discal minute and indistinct, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal, the second discal moderate. The hindwings are pale grey in males and whitish grey in females.

References

Stenoma reticens Wikipedia