Stenoma caesia
Stenoma caesia is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]
| Stenoma caesia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Stenoma |
| Species: | S. caesia |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenoma caesia Meyrick, 1915 | |
The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are greyish purple with the costal edge whitish ocbreous and with fine whitish-ochreous lines on the margins of the cell from base to about one-third. There is a rather broad whitish-ochreous median fascia, hardly reaching the costa, the anterior edge suffused, the posterior rather convex in the disc. There is a faint darker curved subterminal shade, preceded and followed by slightly lighter suffusion, in males, the terminal area is tinged with whitish ochreous. The hindwings are grey.[2]
References
- "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 449
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