Stenoma antitacta explained

Stenoma antitacta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous slightly and irregularly sprinkled light fuscous and with a small indistinct fuscous spot towards the base above the middle connected with the dorsum by a striga. The stigmata are blackish, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is an inwards-oblique suffused blackish spot from the middle of the dorsum reaching to just before the plical stigma. There are triangular blackish spots on the costa at the middle and three-fourths, from the second a strongly curved waved blackish line near the termen to the tornus. There is a marginal series of blackish dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/depressariidae/stenomatinae/stenoma/ "Stenoma Zeller, 1839"
  2. https://archive.org/stream/exoticmicrolepid03meyr#page/219/mode/1up Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 219