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Stagmatophora trimitra

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Stagmatophora trimitra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Stagmatophora
Species:
S. trimitra
Binomial name
Stagmatophora trimitra
Meyrick, 1913
Synonyms
  • Stagmatophora trimetra Vári, 1958

Stagmatophora trimitra is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are very dark bronzy fuscous with a short silvery-white streak from the base of the costa along the submedian fold, as well as three fine silvery-white transverse fasciae, the first at one-fourth, somewhat oblique, the second median, direct, the third at three-fourths direct, but with the extremities produced outwards in the cilia. There is also a silvery-white apical dot. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora trimitra Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 308 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.