Stenoma niphacma

Stenoma niphacma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. niphacma
Binomial name
	Stenoma niphacma; Meyrick, 1916

Stenoma niphacma is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are dark slaty fuscous with the costal edge white from one-fourth onwards and with a white slightly irregular line from before the middle of the costa to two-thirds of the dorsum. There is a narrow white apical patch, attenuated to below the middle of the termen, marked with three blackish dots on the apical edge. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

References

"Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 510

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[1] "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 510