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Stenoma suffumata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stenoma

Stenoma suffumata is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1897. It is found in the West Indies (Grenada).

The wingspan is 16-20 mm. The forewings are shining white, the extreme costa delicately shaded with smoky brown and also the dorsal third of the wing from the base below the fold and beyond it to the termen above the tornus. The hindwings are pale smoky greyish, the males with a long brush of greyish hairs from the base of the costa.

References

Stenoma suffumata Wikipedia