''Stenoma antitacta'' is a

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of the family

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. It is found in

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. The

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is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous slightly and irregularly sprinkled light fuscous and with a small indistinct fuscous spot towards the base above the middle connected with the dorsum by a striga. The stigmata are blackish, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is an inwards-oblique suffused blackish spot from the middle of the dorsum reaching to just before the plical stigma. There are triangular blackish spots on the costa at the middle and three-fourths, from the second a strongly curved waved blackish line near the termen to the tornus. There is a marginal series of blackish dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 219
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References

Moths described in 1925 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub