Lethata aromatica
Species of moth
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Lethata aromatica is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (São Paulo, Paraná, Espirito Santo, Santa Catarina) and Colombia.[1]
| Lethata aromatica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Lethata |
| Species: | L. aromatica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lethata aromatica (Meyrick, 1915) | |
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The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brownish ochreous, with some scattered black and fuscous scales, the costa narrowly suffused with dull light rosy. There is a small purplish-fuscous spot in the middle of the costa, where a faint, hardly definable fuscous shade runs to one-fourth of the dorsum. A slight fuscous mark represents the second discal stigma. The hindwingsare ochreous-grey whitish, the dorsal half suffused with light grey.[2]
