Stenoma muscula

Stenoma muscula is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Panama and Brazil (Amazonas).[1]

Stenoma muscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. muscula
Binomial name
Stenoma muscula
Meyrick, 1925
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia muscula Zeller, 1877
  • Stenoma sciocnesta Meyrick, 1925

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous grey irregularly sprinkled dark grey. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There are cloudy spots of grey suffusion on the costa at one-third, beyond the middle, and four-fifths, from the third a strongly curved series of cloudy dark grey subconfluent dots to the tornus. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Description of Stenoma sciocnesta in Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 213


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