Eretmocera florifera
Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae. This species is known from South Africa.[1]
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| Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909 | |
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. 2015. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (20.Jan.2015)
- Meyrick, E. 1909b. Descriptions of Transvaal Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2(1):1–28, pls. 1–8. pl.VII, fig.2 Archived September 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361
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