Stenoma Charitarcha
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''Stenoma charitarcha'' is a moth belonging to the Depressariidae family and is found in
Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
. The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are typically white, sometimes with a dark grey subbasal dot in the middle . Additionally, a highly oblique series of four grey dots extends from one-fifth of the costa to the fold. A distinctly irregular, angulated-dentate dark grey line from a mark on the costa before the middle to beyond the middle of the dorsum, traversing the end of the cell, on which are two darker dots. Sometimes, there is a grey spot beyond the end of the cell and there are five dark grey marks on the posterior half of the costa, beneath these a triangular spot of grey suffusion at three-fourths, where a line of cloudy-grey dots, strongly curved outwards in the disc, runs to four-fifths of the dorsum. There is an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line. The hindwings are whitish, towards the apex slightly greyish tinged and with a rather dark fuscous terminal line.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (14): 438


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Moths described in 1915 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub