''Stenoma ancylacma'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
* Acriinae ...
. It is found in
Peru
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.
The
wingspan
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is about 24 mm. The forewings are white, the dorsal half suffused pale ochreous and sprinkled fuscous posteriorly, the costal edge tinged pale ochreous. There is a blackish blotch occupying the basal third of the dorsum and extending gradually and irregularly narrower to the base of the costa. The plical stigma is blackish and there is a triangular brown patch resting on the termen from near the apex to the tornus and its apex reaching in the disc to the end of the cell, the upper part yellow brown and edged posteriorly with some dark fuscous scales and anteriorly with a semi-oval blackish spot, preceding its apex a dark fuscous dot in the disc. There are three or four indistinct dots of dark fuscous irroration just beneath the costa towards the apex. The hindwings are ochreous whitish with a short dark grey almost marginal streak around the apex.
''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 205
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References
Moths described in 1925
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
ancylacma
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