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Stenoma chromotechna

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Stenoma chromotechna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species:
S. chromotechna
Binomial name
Stenoma chromotechna
Meyrick, 1925

Stenoma chromotechna is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas).[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light greyish violet with the basal third of the dorsum and projecting scales ferruginous brown. There is a fine white longitudinal line from the base just above this extending to the middle and the costal edge is whitish. A slender blackish streak is found from the costa at one-fourth to the dorsum near the tornus, expanded on the costa, partially tinged brownish on its edges, margined with a whitish streak anteriorly to the fold and posteriorly beyond the fold, preceded on the fold by a small greyish and ochreous tuft. The space between this and the next streak is mixed or tinged whitish ochreous and there is an oblique dark brown white-margined fasciate streak from the middle of the costa reaching half across the wing, then becoming black and continued by a blackish line to the dorsum where it almost meets the apex of the preceding. The apical fourth of the wing forms a blotch with the anterior edge slightly convex, its anterior half whitish, the posterior pale ochreous. There is a marginal series of blackish dots around apex and termen. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 212 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.