Stagmatophora pilana is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1]

Stagmatophora pilana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Stagmatophora
Species:
S. pilana
Binomial name
Stagmatophora pilana
Meyrick, 1913

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

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  1. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 307–308 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.