Eretmocera fasciata

Eretmocera fasciata is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Baron Walsingham in 1896. It is found in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia.[1][2]

Eretmocera fasciata
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E. fasciata
Binomial name
Eretmocera fasciata

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are bronzy greyish fuscous with a straight, transverse, pale whitish ochreous fascia before the middle, followed by a dorsal spot before the tornus and a rather larger costal spot of the same colour before the commencement of the cilia. There is some faint whitish ochreous speckling on the wing-surface. The hindwings are dark grey.[3]

References

  1. Eretmocera at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 : 280


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