Stenoptilia coenei
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Stenoptilia coenei is a moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

 of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

 (Terskei Ala-Tau).

The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

is about 22 mm. The head is grey-brown and the antennae are dark brown, with some white scales. The thorax and tegulae are grey-brown, although the mesothorax is mixed whitish in the dorsal parts. The forewings are costally brown-grey and dorsally mixed with numerous white scales. The markings are dark brown. The hindwings are grey-brown and the fringes are brown-grey.

Adults have been recorded in July at an altitude of 3,000 to 3,200 meters.
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