Stenolechia Robusta
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''Stenolechia robusta'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
(
Tsushima Island is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in-between the Tsushima Strait and Korea Strait, approximately halfway between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula. The main island of Tsushima, once a single island, was divided into two in 1671 b ...
). The length of the forewings is 4.5-5.9 mm. The forewings are ash-grey, speckled with fuscous scales, marked with dark fuscous spots, including three large spots on the costa, each near the base, at two-fifths and three-fifths, a medium-sized spot near the base beneath the fold, a small spot at one-third beneath the fold and two medium-sized spots on the fold.Tyô to Ga 35 (3) : 109
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Moths described in 1984 Stenolechia {{Litini-stub