Stenoma platyphylla
Stenoma platyphylla is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]
| Stenoma platyphylla | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Stenoma |
| Species: | S. platyphylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenoma platyphylla Meyrick, 1916 | |
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]
References
- "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 540
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