''Stenoma melanixa'' is a

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of the family

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. It is found in

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and

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( Amazonas). The

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is about 26 mm. The forewings are fuscous, paler in the disc, the costa suffused with ferruginous brown, darkest on the edge, the lower edge with faint projections at one-third and two-thirds. The second discal stigma is indicated by a minute linear-transverse mark of several dark fuscous scales and there is a slender streak of blackish suffusion along the dorsum from one-fourth to near the tornus, as well as an indistinct conical projection of dark fuscous irroration reaching from the dorsum at three-fourths half across the wing. There is also a narrow whitish-grey terminal fascia, preceded on the costa by a small black spot. The hindwings are rather dark fuscous.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1911 (4): 715
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References

Moths described in 1912 Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub