Erechthias dracaenura
| Erechthias dracaenura | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Erechthias |
| Species: | E. dracaenura |
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| Erechthias dracaenura (Meyrick, 1934) | |
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Erechthias dracaenura is a moth of the Tineidae family. It is endemic to São Tomé, an island off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.
The length of the forewings is about 8 mm. The forewings have a whitish background colour, irrorated (speckled) with isolated brown scales and marked with 6–8 scattered, moderately large, darker brown to black spots.[1]
References
- ↑ Davis, D.R.; Mendel, H. 2013: The genus Erechthias Meyrick of Ascension Island, including discovery of a new brachypterous species (Lepidoptera, Tineidae). ZooKeys, 341: 1-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.341.6146
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