Eretmocera fuscipennis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Scythrididae
- Genus
- Eretmocera
- Species
- Eretmocera fuscipennis
- Scientific Name
- Eretmocera fuscipennis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Eretmocera fuscipennis
Eretmocera fuscipennis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), Gambia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania (Zanzibar) and Zimbabwe.
The wingspan is 11–13 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Clerodendrum species.
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Parent Taxon
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