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Stenoma corvula

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Species of moth

Stenoma corvula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species: S. corvula
Binomial name
Stenoma corvula
(Meyrick, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Antaeotricha corvula Meyrick, 1912

Stenoma corvula is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Colombia.

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with the plical stigma black, connected with the base by a fine blackish line along the fold. The second discal stigma is black, followed by some slight scattered yellow-whitish irroration. The hindwings are dark fuscous, the costa with long dense projecting dark grey scales from near the base to the middle, sinuate beyond this, with a small tuft of scales beyond the sinuation.

References

  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 710 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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