Epermenia ergastica

Epermenia ergastica is a moth in the family Epermeniidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917.[1] It is found in Indonesia, where it has been recorded from the Tenimbar Islands.

Epermenia ergastica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Epermeniidae
Genus: Epermenia
Species:
E. ergastica
Binomial name
Epermenia ergastica
Meyrick, 1917

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are pale grey irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous. The discal stigmata is blackish, remote and the second is beyond two-thirds. There is a dark fuscous apical dot, edged anteriorly by a cloudy pale mark preceded by some dark fuscous suffusion. The hindwings are grey, but paler anteriorly.[2]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Epermenia ergastica". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 68. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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