Stenoma platyphylla

Stenoma platyphylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Stenoma
Species: S. platyphylla
Binomial name
Stenoma platyphylla
Meyrick, 1916

Stenoma platyphylla is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are brown, indistinctly and suffusedly streaked with darker and with a large green patch extending along the dorsum from the base to three-fourths and reaching more than half across the wing, edged above by a dark fuscous streak from the base to one-third of the wing. The hindwings are grey with the apical edge whitish-ochreous.[2]

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