''Stenoma thespia'' 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

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is 27–28 mm. The forewings are pale violet fuscous, with a whitish gloss and with the costal edge ochreous whitish. The basal third of the wing is faintly and obscurely clouded with darker. There are two rather dark fuscous dots transversely placed on the end of the cell and a small violet-fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, where a faint irregular curved fuscous shade runs to three-fourths of the dorsum. A large triangular violet-fuscous spot is found on the costa towards the apex, where a somewhat curved series of cloudy fuscous dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus. There is a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. The hindwings are whitish ochreous, in females with the dorsal half suffused with pale grey, the apical half slightly yellowish tinged.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (15): 474
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References

Moths described in 1915 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Stenoma {{Stenoma-stub