''Stenoma aterpes'' is a

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in the family

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. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1913. It is found in

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. The

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is about 32 mm. The forewings are fawn grey, with a slight tawny gloss. Two small fuscous spots, one at the end of the cell, preceded by a diffused streak of rather paler fawn, which is repeated along the base of the costa; a second in the fold, rather beyond its middle, surrounded by the same paler fawn colour. A faintly darker shade of tawny fawn grey crosses the wing, leaving the costa at two-thirds, obtusely angulated outward opposite to the middle of the termen and reverting to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are dark brownish grey.''Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera'' 4: 180

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Moths described in 1913 Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub