Stenoma suffumata

Stenoma suffumata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1897. It is found in the West Indies (Grenada).[1]

Stenoma suffumata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Stenoma
Species:
S. suffumata
Binomial name
Stenoma suffumata
(Walsingham, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Antaeotricha suffumata Walsingham, 1897

The wingspan is 16–20 mm. The forewings are shining white, the extreme costa delicately shaded with smoky brown and also the dorsal third of the wing from the base below the fold and beyond it to the termen above the tornus. The hindwings are pale smoky greyish, the males with a long brush of greyish hairs from the base of the costa.[2]

References
  1. Stenoma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 98


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