''Lethata pyrenodes'' is a

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of the family

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. It is found in northern

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and Paraná,

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. The

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is about 19 mm. The forewings are deep pinkish-yellow-ochreous with a fuscous triangular spot on the middle of the costa. The plical stigma is small and fuscous and the second discal is represented by a strong transverse fuscous mark. There is a faint shade of fuscous suffusion from the costal spot passing behind this to the dorsum and a faintly indicated somewhat darker rather curved line from three-fourths of the costa to near the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, towards the apex and termen faintly yellowish-tinged.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (14): 448

References

Moths described in 1915 Lethata {{Stenomatinae-stub