Ethmia hiramella

Ethmia hiramella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Ethmia
Species: E. hiramella
Binomial name
Ethmia hiramella
Busck, 1914

Ethmia hiramella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is found in Cuba.

The length of the forewings is 11.9–12 mm. The ground color of the forewings is white or pale cream-white, with brownish black markings reflecting metallic greenish blue. The ground color of the hindwings is semitranslucent white basally, becoming opaque ocherous on the distal half and brownish at the apex. Adults are on wing in April, June and October.[1]

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