Eretmocera chrysias: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Scythrididae
- Genus
- Eretmocera
- Species
- Eretmocera chrysias
- Scientific Name
- Eretmocera chrysias
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Eretmocera chrysias
Eretmocera chrysias is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1887. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.
The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are purple-black with four roundish yellow spots, the first on the inner margin near the base, the second (largest) in the disc before the middle, the third on the inner margin before the anal angle, and the fourth on the costa beyond the third. The hindwings are yellow, with the apical fourth dark purple-fuscous.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Eretmocera agassizi
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- Eretmocera arabica
- Eretmocera artemisiae
- Eretmocera basistrigata
- Eretmocera benitonis
- Eretmocera bradleyi
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- Eretmocera contermina
- Eretmocera dioctis
- Eretmocera dorsistrigata
- Eretmocera fasciata
- Eretmocera florifera
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- Eretmocera haemogastra
- Eretmocera homalocrossa
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- Eretmocera kochi
- Eretmocera laetissima
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- Eretmocera medinella
- Eretmocera meyi
- Eretmocera monophaea
- Eretmocera octopunctata
- Eretmocera pachypennis
- Eretmocera scatospila
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- Eretmocera syleuta
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