Stenoma pardalodes

Stenoma pardalodes is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

Stenoma pardalodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. pardalodes
Binomial name
Stenoma pardalodes
Meyrick, 1918

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are brownish, irrorated dark brown and with the costal edge white and about fifteen irregular white spots, of which some of the largest are three on the costa at one-sixth, before the middle, and four-fifths, and two at the apex and tornus, the rest irregularly arranged in the disc. The hindwings are whitish, posteriorly ochreous tinged.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 207


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