Stenoptilodes medius

Stenoptilodes medius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Stenoptilodes
Species: S. medius
Binomial name
Stenoptilodes medius
Gielis, 2006

Stenoptilodes medius is a moth of the Pterophoridae family that is known from Ecuador.

The wingspan is about 27 millimetres (1.1 in). Adults are on wing in October and January.

Etymology

The name indicates that this is the central of three closely related species. The present species occurs in Ecuador, Stenoptilodes thrasydoxa flies to the north, in Colombia, and there is a third species, Stenoptilodes altiaustralis, to the south, in Peru.

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