Stegasta variana

Short description: Species of moth

Stegasta variana

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Gelechiidae
Genus:  | Stegasta
Species:  |

S. variana

Binomial name
Stegasta variana

Meyrick, 1904

Stegasta variana is a species of moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Queensland,[1] China , India , Malaysia, Réunion and Africa.[2]

The wingspan is about 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in). The forewings are dark coppery-fuscous with a ferruginous-orange fascia at one-fourth, extended as a thick irregular streak along the dorsum to near the tornus. There are four irregular pale golden-metallic fasciae, with the costal extremities white, the first two margining the orange fascia, the third median, enclosing a dot of ground colour above the middle, the fourth at three-fourths, terminating above in a large quadrate ochreous-white spot. The hindwings are grey.[3]

## Foodplants

This species feeds on Caesalpiniaceae, Fabaceae and Oleaceae species.

## References

1. ↑ ozanimals.com (January 1, 2008). "Stegasta variana". ozanimals.com. http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Gelechiid-Moth/Stegasta/variana.html. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
2. ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2018). "Stegasta variana Meyrick, 1904". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/STEGVARI. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
3. ↑ Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29 (part II [number 114]): 314. https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsoflin29linn#page/314/mode/1up. Retrieved 17 June 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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