Stenoma ascodes

Stenoma ascodes is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]

Stenoma ascodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. ascodes
Binomial name
Stenoma ascodes
Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is 17–18 mm. The forewings are fuscous purple with the costal edge deep ferruginous from near the base, more broadly posteriorly, in females with indications of three somewhat darker irregular very oblique lines running from the anterior half of the costa. The hindwings are dark grey, in males clothed with hairscales in the disc and with the apical edge orange.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (14): 441


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