Stenoma niphacma

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

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

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are dark slaty-fuscous with the costal edge white from one-fourth onwards and with a white slightly irregular line from before the middle of the costa to two-thirds of the dorsum. There is a narrow white apical patch, attenuated to below the middle of the termen, marked with three blackish dots on the apical edge. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

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