Stenoma neoptila

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

Stenoma neoptila is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are white, the costal edge whitish-ochreous and with a dark fuscous patch extending along the anterior half of the dorsum but leaving the dorsum slenderly ochreous-white, reaching nearly half across the wing, at the base touching the costa, immediate]y beyond it a pale ochreous triangular dorsal blotch, followed by an inwards-oblique broad dark fuscous fasciate blotch from the tornus reaching three-fourths across the wing, suffused posteriorly and above. The hindwings are yellow-whitish.[2]

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