About Stegasta variana Meyrick, 1904
Stegasta variana Meyrick, 1904 is a species of moth that belongs to the family Gelechiidae. This species has been recorded in Queensland, China, India, Malaysia, Réunion, and Africa. Its wingspan measures approximately 10 to 12 millimeters (0.39 to 0.47 inches). The forewings are dark coppery-fuscous, with a ferruginous-orange fascia at one-fourth of the wing length that extends as a thick, irregular streak along the dorsum to near the tornus. There are four irregular pale golden-metallic fasciae, which have white costal extremities: the first two of these fasciae border the orange fascia, the third is positioned medially and encloses a dot of the base wing colour above the middle of the wing, and the fourth is located at three-fourths of the wing length, ending above in a large quadrate ochreous-white spot. The hindwings of Stegasta variana are grey.
