Eretmocera
genus of insects
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 hafeetensis Roberts & Bengtsson, 2023
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.
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