Biology:Eretmocera

Short description: Genus of moths

Eretmocera
Eretmocera laetissima
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Scythrididae
Genus:	Eretmocera Zeller, 1852
Type species
Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
Synonyms
Aeraula Meyrick, 1897 Castorura Meyrick, 1887 Exodomorpha Walker, 1864 Leuroscelis Turner, 1926 Staintonia Staudinger, 1859

Eretmocera is a genus of moths in the family Scythrididae.

Species

• Eretmocera agassizi Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera albistriata Legrand, 1966
• Eretmocera alenica Strand, 1913
• Eretmocera arabica Amsel, 1961
• Eretmocera aurovittata Pagenstecher, 1900 (from the Bismarck islands)
• Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera benitonis Strand, 1913
• Eretmocera bradleyi Amsel, 1961
• Eretmocera chrysias (Meyrick, 1887) (from Australia)
• Eretmocera contermina Meyrick, 1926
• Eretmocera coracopis (Turner, 1927) (from Australia)
• Eretmocera cyanauges Turner, 1913 (from Australia)
• Eretmocera cyanosoma Meyrick, 1910 (from Sumba)
• Eretmocera dioctis (Meyrick, 1897) (from Australia)
• Eretmocera dorsistrigata Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera fasciata Walsingham, 1896
• Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909
• Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera haemogastra Meyrick, 1936
• Eretmocera homalocrossa Meyrick, 1930
• Eretmocera impactella (Walker, 1864)
• Eretmocera jemensis Rebel, 1930
• Eretmocera katangensis Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera kochi Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera letabensis Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera levicornella Rebel, 1917
• Eretmocera lyneborgi Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera malelanensis Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera medinella (Staudinger, 1859)
• Eretmocera meyi Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera microbarbara Walsingham, 1907 (from Algeria)
• Eretmocera monophaea Meyrick, 1927
• Eretmocera nomadica Walsingham, 1907 (from Algeria)
• Eretmocera pachypennis Strand, 1913
• Eretmocera percnophanes Meyrick, 1929 (from the Philippines)
• Eretmocera rubripennis Meyrick, 1915 (from India)
• Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera shoabensis Rebel, 1907
• Eretmocera syleuta Meyrick, 1926
• Eretmocera thephagones van Gijen, 1912 (from Java)
• Eretmocera tiwiensis Bengtsson, 2014
• Eretmocera typhonica Meyrick, 1917
• Eretmocera xanthonota Meyrick, 1910 (from Sumba)

Former species

• Eretmocera carteri Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera illucens Meyrick, 1914

References

• Markku Savela's ftp.funet.fi
• Walsingham, 1889. Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera connecting Tinaegeria with Eretmocera. Trans.Ent.Soc.Lond, 1889

Wikidata ☰ Q10273556 entry