Stenoma corvula

Stenoma corvula
Scientific classification
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.[1]

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.[2]

References

"Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 710

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[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