Stenoma recondita is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Guyana. The wingspan is 14-17 mm. The forewings are light purplish-grey, paler and whitish-tinged towards the costa, the costal edge white. There is a black elongate mark on the costa beyond two-fifths, edged beneath by a pale ochreous-yellowish dot and a bisinuate erect dark fuscous line from the dorsum at two-fifths reaching three-fourths across the wing, the sinuations edged posteriorly with pale ochreous-yellowish. There is an irregularly triangular dark fuscous blotch on the costa beyond the middle, becoming blackish on the costa, the apex edged with pale ochreous-yellowish. A transverse dark fuscous mark is found on the end of the cell and an indistinct irregular dark fuscous line runs from the apex of the costa