Stenoma Clysmographa
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''Stenoma clysmographa'' 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
Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...
. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 30 mm. The forewings are brown with suffused, pale greyish markings. There is an irregular blotch towards the costa before the middle, a roundish spot about the fold beneath this, two small dots longitudinally placed in the disc beyond the middle, some slight irroration towards the costa about two-thirds, a curved subterminal shade from above the middle to the dorsum, thickened in the disc and with a waved posterior edge, and a terminal streak becoming obsolete towards the extremities. There is also a terminal row of dark fuscous dots. The hindwings are dark fuscous.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 197
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Moths described in 1925 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma Moths of South America {{Stenoma-stub