Stenoma Albida
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''Stenoma albida'' 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
Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...
. It is found in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. Adults are whitish with broad wings, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips, with six or seven brown streaks in front and two longer and hinder brown streaks extending from the base of the wing, narrowly divided from a large brown spot. A second large brown spot is found beyond the first one and resting on the interior angle and there is a row of submarginal brown streaks. The exterior border is nearly straight and not oblique. The hindwings are brownish cinereous.''List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum'' 29: 712


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Moths described in 1864 Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub