Stenoma sericata

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

Stenoma sericata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. sericata
Binomial name
Stenoma sericata
(Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia sericata Butler, 1877
  • Stenoma eminula Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are whitish fuscous, with a faint violet tinge and with the costal edge orange. The stigmata are small and dark fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a small dark fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, and a larger triangular one at four-fifths, where a curved series of dark fuscous dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus. There is also a terminal series of subquadrate dark fuscous dots. The hindwings are whitish yellowish, suffused with ochreous yellow towards the apex and upper part of the termen.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Description of Stenoma eminula in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 473


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