Ethmia ungulatella

Ethmia ungulatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Ethmiidae (disputed)
Genus: Ethmia
Species: E. ungulatella
Binomial name
Ethmia ungulatella
Busck, 1914

Ethmia ungulatella is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from Panama north through Central America to eastern Mexico. The habitat consists of dry forests and rain forests.[1]

The length of the forewings is 8.4-10.4 mm. The ground color of the forewings is white with steel blue-gray spots. The ground color of the hindwings dorsad of the fold is gray, but darker toward the distal margins. Adults are on wing in April and May (in Panama) and in July and August (in Mexico). There are possibly multiple generations per year.[2]

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