| Eretmocera laetissima | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Scythrididae |
| Genus: | Eretmocera |
| Species: | E. laetissima |
| Binomial name | |
| Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eretmocera laetissima is a moth of the family Scythrididae. This species is known from Gambia, Congo, Comoros, Madagascar, Sierra Leone and South Africa. [1]
The larvae feed on Alternanthera achyrantoides (Amaranthaceae) and Clerodendrum sp. (Verbenaceae). [2]
Scythrididae is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.
Eretmocera impactella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. This species is known from Oman, United Arab Emirates, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand and Pakistan.
Eretmocera is a genus of moths in the family Scythrididae.
Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. This species is known from South Africa.
Eretmocera alenica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Strand in 1913. It is found in Equatorial Guinea.
Eretmocera arabica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1961. It is found in Yemen.
Eretmocera basistrigata is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Baron Walsingham in 1889. It is found in Cape Verde, Gambia, Kenya and Namibia.
Eretmocera benitonis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Strand in 1913. It is found in Equatorial Guinea.
Eretmocera bradleyi is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1961. It is found in the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Eretmocera contermina is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found in Namibia and South Africa (Gauteng).
Eretmocera dioctis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.
Eretmocera dorsistrigata is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Baron Walsingham in 1889. It is found in Tanzania (Zanzibar).
Eretmocera fuscipennis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), Gambia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania (Zanzibar) and Zimbabwe.
Eretmocera jemensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Hans Rebel in 1930. It is found in Yemen.
Eretmocera levicornella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Hans Rebel in 1917. It is found in Sudan.
Eretmocera medinella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1859. It is found in Spain, Sardinia, Russia and Turkey.
Eretmocera monophaea is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1927. It is found in Namibia and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Eretmocera thephagones is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Klunder van Gijen in 1912. It is found on Java, an island in Indonesia.
Eretmocera agassizi is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in Kenya.
