Ethmia iranella

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Ethmia iranella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Ethmia
Species:
E. iranella
Binomial name
Ethmia iranella
Zerny, 1940 [1]
Synonyms
  • Ethmia bipunctella iranellaZerny, 1940 [2]

Ethmia iranella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It has been recorded from Asia Minor, Syria, Iran, [3] Spain, [a] Portugal, [4] Hungary, Romania, Greece [2] and southern Russia. It has recently been recorded from France [5] and Italy. [2]

The species was first described as a subspecies of Ethmia bipunctella , [2] with type locality Elburs, Iran. [3] It was later recognized as valid, separate species with a wider distribution. [2]

The host-plant or host-plants of this species are not yet known, but Boraginaceae is likely. [2]

References

  1. ↑ where it is known from three specimens: one male collected from Valencia in 1960 and two females collected from Granada in 1957 and 1962 respectively. [2]
  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sattler, Klaus (16 May 2018). "Ethmia iranella Zerny, 1940 – a Spanish enigma (Lepidoptera, Ethmiidae)" (PDF). Nota Lepidopterologica. 41 (1): 125–127. doi: 10.3897/nl.41.24971 .
  3. 1 2 Savela, Markku. "Ethmia". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Corley, M. F. V. (2015). Lepidoptera of Continental Portugal: A Fully Revised List. ISBN   9780993316005.
  5. ↑ Guillaume LERAUT, "Ethmia iranella (Zerny, 1940) en France, une nouveauté remarquable" in L'Entomologiste, 2011
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