Ethmia amasina

Ethmia amasina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Ethmia
Species:	E. amasina
Binomial name
	Ethmia amasina; (Staudinger, 1880)
Synonyms
	Psecadia amasina Staudinger, 1880;

Ethmia amasina is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1880.^[1] It is found in Asia Minor (Amasia), Syria, Iraq (Kurdistan) and Iran.^[2]

The wingspan is 20–24 mm (0.79–0.94 in). The forewings are white with three black dots on the wing, two on the fold and one after the cell. There is also a row of eight to eleven marginal points. The hindwings are dull grey.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia amasina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
^ Ethmia at funet
^ Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidoptera-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae (in German). 15. Russkoe ėntomologicheskoe obshchestvo: 292. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia amasina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.

[2] Ethmia at funet

[3] Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidoptera-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae (in German). 15. Russkoe ėntomologicheskoe obshchestvo: 292. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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