Stagmatophora trimitra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Cosmopterigidae
- Genus
- Stagmatophora
- Species
- Stagmatophora trimitra
- Scientific Name
- Stagmatophora trimitra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stagmatophora trimitra
Stagmatophora trimitra is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is 9–10 millimetres (0.35–0.39 in). The forewings are very dark bronzy fuscous with a short silvery-white streak from the base of the costa along the submedian fold, as well as three fine silvery-white transverse fasciae, the first at one-fourth, somewhat oblique, the second median, direct, the third at three-fourths direct, but with the extremities produced outwards in the cilia. There is also a silvery-white apical dot. The hindwings are dark fuscous.
...Parent Taxon
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