Stenoma Straminella
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''Stenoma straminella'' 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 ...
in 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 was described by Francis Walker in 1864. 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 ...
. Adults are pale straw colour, the forewings hardly acute, with four black points. The first point close to the base, the second at one-fourth of the length, the third a little beyond the second and more hindward and the fourth beyond the middle. There is an incomplete outward-curved row of submarginal black points and the exterior border is rather oblique. The hindwings are whitish.''List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum'' 29: 722
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Moths described in 1864 Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub