Stenoma chalybaeella explained

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

Adults are cupreous brown with broad wings, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips, tinged with chalybeous and with a transverse ferruginous streak in the disc at two-thirds of the length. There is a ferruginous marginal line, dilated towards the costa and a short black more or less distinct longitudinal streak in the disc before the middle. The exterior border is convex and not oblique. The hindwings are cupreous with a dark cinereous fringe.[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/listofspecimenso2930brit#page/719/mode/1up List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 719