Ethmia caradjae

Ethmia caradjae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Ethmia
Species:	E. caradjae
Binomial name
	Ethmia caradjae; (Rebel, 1907)
Synonyms
	Psecadia caradjae Rebel, 1907; Ethmia chosroes Wiltshire, 1947;

Ethmia caradjae is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Rebel in 1907.^[1] It is found in Asia Minor (Taurus Mountains), Iraq, Kurdistan and south-western Iran.^[2]

The wingspan is about 24 mm (0.94 in). The forewings are glossy grey-brown with four black dots on the cell in two oblique parallel pairs. The hindwings are lightly scaled and transparent except near the termen, where the grey-brown scales are thicker.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia caradjae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ Ethmia at funet
^ Wiltshire, E. P. (November 1947). "Middle East Lepidoptera, VIII: Some More New Species and Forms from Iran". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. LIX (11): 125. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia caradjae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.

[2] Ethmia at funet

[3] Wiltshire, E. P. (November 1947). "Middle East Lepidoptera, VIII: Some More New Species and Forms from Iran". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. LIX (11): 125. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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