Stenoma adustella

Stenoma adustella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. adustella
Binomial name
	Stenoma adustella; (Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
	Cryptolechia adustella Walker, 1864;

Stenoma adustella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Venezuela.[1]

Adults are very pale cinereous fawn colour, with the wings rather broad, the forewings rounded at the tips, with a broad blackish band which contains several longitudinal streaks of the ground hue, and is much dilated towards the interior border, and has an irregular outline. There are few blackish submarginal points forming a line which is retracted to the band near the costa.[2]

References

"Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 726 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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

[2] List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 726 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.