Eretmocera florifera

Eretmocera florifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Scythridinae
Genus:	Eretmocera
Species:	E. florifera
Binomial name
	Eretmocera florifera; Meyrick, 1909

Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. This species is known from South Africa.^[1]

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. (2019). "Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
^ Meyrick, E. (November 1909). "Descriptions of Tansvaal Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2 (1): 21 – via Sabinet.
^ Bengtsson, B. A. (2014). "The Afrotropical Scythrididae". Esperiana Memoir. 7: 1–361.

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[1] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

[2] Meyrick, E. (November 1909). "Descriptions of Tansvaal Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2 (1): 21 – via Sabinet.

[3] Bengtsson, B. A. (2014). "The Afrotropical Scythrididae". Esperiana Memoir. 7: 1–361.

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