Stagmatophora pilana: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Cosmopterigidae
- Genus
- Stagmatophora
- Species
- Stagmatophora pilana
- Scientific Name
- Stagmatophora pilana
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stagmatophora pilana
Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a slender irregular white streak along the dorsum from the base to beyond the tornus, posteriorly partially suffused with brownish ochreous, edged above by two raised black dots at one-fourth, and at the middle of the wing, the second edged anteriorly with white. There is a short black apical dash, partially edged above with white. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.
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Sibling Taxa
- Stagmatophora argyrostrepta
- Stagmatophora basanistis
- Stagmatophora callistrepta
- Stagmatophora chopardella
- Stagmatophora cyma
- Stagmatophora diakonoffi
- Stagmatophora diversoplaga
- Stagmatophora enchrysa
- Stagmatophora erebinthia
- Stagmatophora faceta
- Stagmatophora gerberanella
- Stagmatophora haploceros
- Stagmatophora heydeniella
- Stagmatophora iridella
- Stagmatophora leptarga
- Stagmatophora narcota
- Stagmatophora niphosticta
- Stagmatophora phalacra
- Stagmatophora phanoptila
- Stagmatophora pilana
- Stagmatophora sexnotella
- Stagmatophora sordidella
- Stagmatophora trimitra
- Stagmatophora urantha
- Stagmatophora vinsoni
- Stagmatophora wyattella