Stenoma irascens

Stenoma irascens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil.[1]

Stenoma irascens
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S. irascens
Binomial name
Stenoma irascens
Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light violet-purplish brown with four or five grey dots or transverse marks towards the costa on the second fourth. The plical and second discal stigmata are minute and dark grey, with a slender deep ferruginous streak along the costa on the posterior half and a strongly curved series of minute dark grey dots from towards the costa in the middle to near the termen and then to the tornus. The hindwings are blackish grey.[2]

References

  1. "Stenoma Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 252


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