Ethmia scythropa
Appearance
Ethmia scythropa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Ethmia |
Species: | E. scythropa
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Binomial name | |
Ethmia scythropa Walsingham, 1912
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Ethmia scythropa is a
Neotropics, from eastern Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to Costa Rica, as well as on Cuba and Jamaica
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The length of the forewings is 9.4–12.5 mm (0.37–0.49 in). The ground color of the forewings is olivaceous gray, reflecting metallic olivaceous. The ground color of the hindwings is shining whitish, becoming pale brownish apically. Adults are on wing from December to March (in Cuba and Jamaica), from December to June and in September (in Mexico) and from March to May and from September to October (in Guatemala). There are multiple generations per year.[1]
The larvae feed on Bourreria oxyphylla and Bourreria costaricensis.[2]
References
- ^ Powell, Jerry (1973). "A Systematic Monograph of New World Ethmiid Moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. Retrieved 12 June 2020.[permanent dead link]
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