Ethmia amasina

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Ethmia amasina
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Ethmia
Species:
E. amasina
Binomial name
Ethmia amasina
(Staudinger, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Psecadia amasina Staudinger, 1880

Ethmia amasina is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Staudinger in 1880.[1] It is found in Asia Minor (Amasia), Syria, Iraq (Kurdistan) and Iran.[2]

The wingspan is 20–24 mm (0.79–0.94 in). The forewings are white with three black dots on the wing, two on the fold and one after the cell. There is also a row of eight to eleven marginal points. The hindwings are dull grey.[3]

References

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia amasina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Ethmia at funet
  3. ^ Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidoptera-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae (in German). Russkoe ėntomologicheskoe obshchestvo. 15: 292. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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