Ethmia albitogata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Ethmia |
Species: | E. albitogata |
Binomial name | |
Ethmia albitogata Walsingham, 1907 [1] | |
Ethmia albitogata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in central California.
The length of the forewings is 6–7.1 millimetres (0.24–0.28 in). The ground color of the forewings is dark gray heavily overscaled with white. The ground color of the hindwings (including fringe) is white, but the apical area and base of the adjoining fringe are blackish. Adults are on wing in February and March. [2]
The larvae feed on Amsinckia lunaris and possibly other Amsinckia species.
Amsinckia lunaris is an uncommon species of fiddleneck known by the common name bent-flowered fiddleneck. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the San Francisco Bay Area, the woods of the coastal and inland mountains just north, and the Central Valley and its San Joaquin Valley.
Ethmia lassenella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
Ethmia coquillettella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America along the southern and inner central coast range of California and has also been recorded from interior British Columbia.
Ethmia brevistriga is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is in California, United States.
Ethmia plagiobothrae is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia minuta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia tricula is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia epileuca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in southern California and Tucson, Arizona.
Ethmia hagenella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in Texas and New Mexico.
Ethmia zelleriella, or Zeller's ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in eastern North America, from southern Ontario and Quebec through the Ohio Valley and southern Appalachian regions to central Texas.
Ethmia delliella, the ladder-backed ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from the Gulf region of Texas and Mexico to the west coastal plain of Mexico, Chiapas, El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Ethmia clarkei is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Mexico, where it was described from the Isla de Mujeres off the coast of Quintana Roo.
Ethmia abraxasella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Bahamas. It has also been recorded from southern Florida in the United States.
Ethmia phylacops is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Mexico.
Ethmia phylacis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Mexico, Costa Rica and Cuba. The habitat consists of dry forests.
Ethmia notatella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles (Curacao).
Ethmia wellingi is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Mexico. Records from Costa Rica refer to Ethmia stephenrumseyi.
Ethmia longimaculella, the streaked ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from southern Canada and the northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains. In the Midwest, the range extends south to Texas.
Ethmia cyanea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in northern Veracruz in Mexico.
Ethmia mirusella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States from Kansas and Oklahoma to central and western Texas.