Stenoma cana

Stenoma cana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. cana
Binomial name
Stenoma cana (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
Cryptolechia cana Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 Stenoma octacentra Meyrick, 1915 Stenoma antilyra Meyrick, 1925

Stenoma cana is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas), Peru and French Guiana.^[1]

The wingspan is 15-19 mm.^[2] The forewings are white, variably tinged or sprinkled greyish, sometimes obscurely streaked pale greyish-ochreous between veins. The costal edge is dark grey towards the base and there is some irregular greyish clouding towards the costa at one-fourth, as well as a very oblique dark grey mark from before the middle of the costa, beyond this two small grey spots edged darker, from beyond the second a series of dark grey dots obliquely inwards, forming a deep indentation, then strongly excurved in the disc and again sinuate to before the tornus. The first discal stigma is indistinct, fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond it, indistinct or seldom dark fuscous, the second discal represented by two transversely placed dark fuscous dots, an additional dot before the lower of these. There are also two dark fuscous marks on the costa before the apex, and a terminal series of dots or an interrupted line. The hindwings are whitish or whitish-grey with a dark fuscous terminal line.^[3]

References

1. Stenoma at funet
2. Description of Stenoma octacentra in Exot. Microlep. 1 (15): 459
3. Description of Stenoma antilyra in Exot. Microlep. 3 (5-7): 215