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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