Stenoma melinopa

Stenoma melinopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Stenoma
Species:	S. melinopa
Binomial name
Stenoma melinopa Meyrick, 1925

Stenoma melinopa is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas).^[1]

The wingspan is 18-20 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous with strewn dark grey dots and strigulae and the costal edge is light ochreous except towards the extremities. There is an undefined spot of grey suffusion about the middle of the costa and there is a round ochreous-greenish spot on the end of the cell, enclosing a more or less expressed blackish dot, beneath this is a small white dot. There is sometimes an indistinct spot of a greenish tinge before the tornus. The hindwings are pale greyish.^[2]

References

1. Stenoma at funet
2. Exot. Microlep. 3 (5-7): 222