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Stagmatophora pilana

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Species of moth

Stagmatophora pilana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Stagmatophora
Species: S. pilana
Binomial name
Stagmatophora pilana
Meyrick, 1913

Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a slender irregular white streak along the dorsum from the base to beyond the tornus, posteriorly partially suffused with brownish ochreous, edged above by two raised black dots at one-fourth, and at the middle of the wing, the second edged anteriorly with white. There is a short black apical dash, partially edged above with white. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.

References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 307–308 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Stagmatophora pilana


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