Ethmia acontias

Ethmia acontias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Ethmia
Species:	E. acontias
Binomial name
	Ethmia acontias; Meyrick, 1906

Ethmia acontias is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1906.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka and southern India.[2]

The wingspan is 17–21 mm (0.67–0.83 in). The forewings are pale whitish-fuscous with blackish markings. There is a streak from the base of the costa to beneath the costa at two-fifths, brown towards its middle. There is an irregular streak along the fold from the base to near the middle, beyond the apex of which lies a dot surrounded with whitish. There is also a median longitudinal streak from before the middle to the termen beneath the apex, its posterior extremity bifurcate. There is a series of irregular dots along the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are fuscous-whitish, suffused with fuscous towards the apex.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia acontias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
Ethmia at funet
Meyrick, E. (1906). "Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera, part II". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (2): 409–410. Retrieved 15 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia acontias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.

[2] Ethmia at funet

[3] Meyrick, E. (1906). "Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera, part II". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (2): 409–410. Retrieved 15 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.