Ethmia mnesicosma

Ethmia mnesicosma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Ethmiidae (disputed)
Genus: Ethmia
Species: E. mnesicosma
Binomial name
Ethmia mnesicosma
Meyrick, 1924
Synonyms
  • Ethmia ornata Busck, 1934

Ethmia mnesicosma is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from Mexico (both the east and west coast) to northern Venezuela and Trinidad. There is also a record from southern Brazil.

Larva

The length of the forewings is 7-8.8 mm. The ground color of the forewings is white, basally heavily spotted with shining gray or silver-blue on both the costal and dorsal areas. The ground color of the hindwings is whitish at the base, becoming brown towards the margins. Adults are on wing in February (in Trinidad), in May (in San Salvador and Yucatán), from June to July (in Veracruz), from July to August (in Sinoloa and Sonora), in November (in Venezuela) and in December (in Oaxaca).[1]

The larvae feed on Cordia alliodora.[2]

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