Stenoma sommerella

Stenoma sommerella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1877. It is found in Central America and Brazil.[1]

Stenoma sommerella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. sommerella
Binomial name
Stenoma sommerella
(Zeller, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia sommerella Zeller, 1877
  • Stenoma nymphotima Meyrick, 1931
  • Stenoma xylograpta Meyrick, 1931

The wingspan is 17–21 mm. The forewings are lilac whitish, sometimes partially irrorated pale greyish and with three ill-defined irregular rather oblique-transverse somewhat curved brown lines rising from irregular triangular blackish-grey spots beneath the yellowish-white costal edge. There is a dark grey marginal line or series of blackish-grey dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are whitish.[2]

References
  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Description of Stenoma xylograpta in Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (1): 40


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