Biology:Stagmatophora pilana
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Short description: Species of moth
| Stagmatophora pilana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Stagmatophora |
| Species: | S. pilana
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| Binomial name | |
| Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913
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Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa .[1]
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.[2]
References
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/STAGPILA. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ↑ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 3 (4): 307–308. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/203783#page/375/mode/1up.
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Wikidata ☰ Q14740550 entry
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