Eretmocera alenica

Eretmocera alenica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Scythrididae
Genus:	Eretmocera
Species:	E. alenica
Binomial name
	Eretmocera alenica; Strand, 1913

Eretmocera alenica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Strand in 1913. It is found in Equatorial Guinea.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are black, bronzy dorsally and purplish along the termen. The fringes are black, with a pale yellow, oval, oblique spot at the tornus. Opposite the tornal spot is a very faint, pale yellow costal spot. Ventrally, there is a red streak, not reaching the termen, with a yellowish gloss, distally reddish-purplish. The hindwings and its fringes are blood-red in the basal half dorsally and ventrally and black with a faint bronze shine at the apical half.[3]

References

Eretmocera at funet.fi.
Afro Moths
Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Eretmocera at funet.fi.

[2] Afro Moths

[3] Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.