Stenoma adustella

Stenoma adustella
Scientific classification
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 Depressariidae family. 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]

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