''Stenoma oxyschista'' is a
moth in the
family Depressariidae. It is found in
Amazonas in northwestern
Brazil.
Description
''Stenoma oxyschista'' possesses a
wingspan of . The
forewings are dark grey, while the
costal third and
apical area beyond the third line are white. There are three very strong, dark fuscous lines from the
costa to the
disc, with the third being curved around beneath the
tornus. Beneath the lines, the disc is variably streaked lengthwise with white and dark fuscous, including a fuscous plical streak on the basal third, and a
median
In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value. The basic fe ...
streak on the central third. There are two or three distinct black marginal dots or marks above the
apex, and one or two minute dots below. The
hindwings
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindw ...
are dark grey.
''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 187
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References
Moths described in 1925
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Stenoma
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