Eretmocera alenica

Eretmocera alenica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Scythrididae
Genus: Eretmocera
Species:
E. alenica
Binomial name
Eretmocera alenica
Strand, 1913

Eretmocera alenica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Strand in 1913. It is found in Equatorial Guinea.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are black, bronzy dorsally and purplish along the termen. The fringes are black, with a pale yellow, oval, oblique spot at the tornus. Opposite the tornal spot is a very faint, pale yellow costal spot. Ventrally, there is a red streak, not reaching the termen, with a yellowish gloss, distally reddish-purplish. The hindwings and its fringes are blood-red in the basal half dorsally and ventrally and black with a faint bronze shine at the apical half.[3]

References

  1. ^ Eretmocera at funet.fi.
  2. ^ Afro Moths
  3. ^ Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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