Stenoma Peridesma
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''Stenoma peridesma'' 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 Amazonas,
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. The
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is about 13 mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous speckled grey with the costal and apical edge suffused ferruginous, the base of the costa grey. The second discal stigma is small and dark grey. The hindwings are grey.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 220
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Moths described in 1925 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub