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Stomopteryx cirrhocoma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stomopteryx

Stomopteryx cirrhocoma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous. The stigmata are obscure, elongate and blackish, the discal nearly approximated, the plical very obliquely before first discal. The hindwings are grey.

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Stomopteryx cirrhocoma Wikipedia