Stagmatophora pilana

Stagmatophora pilana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Stagmatophora
Species: S. pilana
Binomial name
Stagmatophora pilana
Meyrick, 1913

Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with a slender irregular white streak along the dorsum from the base to beyond the tornus, posteriorly partially suffused with brownish-ochreous, edged above by two raised black dots at one-fourth, and at the middle of the wing, the second edged anteriorly with white. There is a short black apical dash, partially edged above with white. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.[2]

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