Ethmia iranella

Ethmia iranella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Depressariidae
Genus:Ethmia
Species: E. iranella
Binomial name
Ethmia iranella
Zerny, 1940[1]
Synonyms
  • Ethmia bipunctella iranella Zerny, 1940[2]

Ethmia iranella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It has been recorded from Asia Minor, Syria, Iran,[3] Spain,[lower-alpha 1] Portugal,[4] Hungary, Romania, Greece[2] and southern Russia. It has recently been recorded from France[5] and Italy.[2]

The species was first described as a subspecies of Ethmia bipunctella,[2] with type locality Elburs, Iran.[3] It was later recognized as valid, separate species with a wider distribution.[2]

The host-plant or host-plants of this species are not yet known, but Boraginaceae is likely.[2]

References

  1. ↑ where it is known from three specimens: one male collected from Valencia in 1960 and two females collected from Granada in 1957 and 1962 respectively.[2]
  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sattler, Klaus (16 May 2018). "Ethmia iranella Zerny, 1940 – a Spanish enigma (Lepidoptera, Ethmiidae)". Nota Lepidopterologica. 41 (1): 125–127. doi:10.3897/nl.41.24971.
  3. 1 2 Savela, Markku. "Ethmia". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Corley, M. F. V. (2015). Lepidoptera of Continental Portugal: A Fully Revised List. ISBN 9780993316005.
  5. ↑ Guillaume LERAUT, "Ethmia iranella (Zerny, 1940) en France, une nouveauté remarquable" in L'Entomologiste, 2011


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