Erithyma trabeella

Erithyma trabeella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Erithyma
Species:	E. trabeella
Binomial name
	Erithyma trabeella; (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
	Oecophora trabeella Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Erithyma polychroma Meyrick, 1914;

Erithyma trabeella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It is found in Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru.^[1]

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are black with metallic-green blotches on the dorsum about one-fourth and the middle, narrowed upwards and reaching small violet-white marks on the costa. An orange blotch occupies the costal half from the middle to near the apex, connected by a bar with the dorsum at two-thirds, enclosing blue-metallic longitudinal marks beneath the costa at the anterior angle, and in the disc obliquely beyond and beneath this, and with a violet-white dot preceding it in the middle. There is a rounded purple-coppery blotch extending over the termen and tornus. The hindwings are dark fuscous.^[2]

References

^ Erithyma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
^ Description of Erithyma polychroma in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (7): 224

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[1] Erithyma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Description of Erithyma polychroma in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (7): 224

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