Eretmocera florifera
Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. This species is known from South Africa.[1]
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This species has a wingspan of 12 mm. Its forewings are purple blackish with a moderate roundish pale ochreous-yellow spot in the disc at one-third and a small whitish yellow spot on the tornus and one rather beyond it on the costa. The hindwings are bright deep yellow with a dark purplish-fuscous apical patch covering rather more than one-fourth, the anterior edge with projections in disc and on the termen.[2] Adults have been recorded in wing in October and December.[3]
References
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- Meyrick, E. (November 1909). "Descriptions of Tansvaal Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2 (1): 21 – via Sabinet.
- Bengtsson, B. A. (2014). "The Afrotropical Scythrididae". Esperiana Memoir. 7: 1–361.
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