Lethata aromatica

Lethata aromatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Lethata
Species: L. aromatica
Binomial name
Lethata aromatica
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma aromatica Meyrick, 1915

Lethata aromatica is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil (São Paulo, Paraná, Espirito Santo, Santa Catarina) and Colombia.[1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, with some scattered black and fuscous scales, the costa narrowly suffused with dull light rosy. There is a small purplish-fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, where a faint hardly definable fuscous shade runs to one-fourth of the dorsum. The second discal stigma is represented by a slight fuscous mark. The hindwingsare ochreous-grey-whitish, the dorsal half suffused with light grey.[2]

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