Stenoma Sustentata
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''Stenoma sustentata'' 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
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. 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 26 mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous with the markings rather dark violet fuscous. There is a suffused streak from the base of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, where it runs into an irregular suffused fascia from the apex widening downwards and covering the posterior half of the dorsum, leaving a narrow suffused terminal streak of ground colour. There is also a terminal series of dark dots and a small suffused spot beneath the costal edge in the middle, where an oblique series of two or three cloudy dots runs to the middle of the posterior fascia. The hindwings are dark grey.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 225
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Moths described in 1925 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub