Ethmia minuta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Ethmia |
Species: | E. minuta |
Binomial name | |
Ethmia minuta Powell, 1973 [1] | |
Ethmia minuta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
The length of the forewings is 4.4–5 mm (0.17–0.20 in). The ground color of the forewings is black, reflecting shining bronzy, indistinctly mottled by scattered whitish scales in the distal one-third. The ground color of the hindwings is white, with a narrow blackish area around the apex. [2]
The larvae feed on Cryptantha intermedia . They feed inside the buds of their host plant. First instar larvae feed at the sides of developing ovules. [3]
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 scylla is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is in California, United States.
Ethmia brevistriga is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is in California, United States.
Ethmia albistrigella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from southern British Columbia southward in the Rocky Mountains to south-western Colorado and into the Wasatch Range in northern Utah. On the Pacific coast it ranges through western Washington and Oregon into the mountains of California. Subspecies icariella is an Arctic-Alpine zone race which has only been recorded from California.
Ethmia albitogata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in central California.
Ethmia nadia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California.
Ethmia semilugens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico in the arid parts of Colorado through central Texas, New Mexico, northern Chihuahua, Arizona and southern California.
Ethmia arctostaphylella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico from southern Oregon and northern California, southward to the Sierra San Pedro Martir in Baja California and eastward in southern Nevada and Arizona. The range possibly extends northward in Oregon and into Utah following the distribution of its host plants.
Ethmia timberlakei is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia semitenebrella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Nuevo León in Mexico to Arizona and southern and eastern California.
Ethmia geranella is a moth in the family Depressariidae first described by William Barnes and August Busck in 1920. It is known only from the United States in the western edge of the Colorado Desert in California's San Diego County and the Ivanpah Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert.
Ethmia discostrigella, the mountain-mahogany moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from the western United States, south into Mexico.
Ethmia monticola, the gray ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Arizona, east at least to North Dakota and Colorado.
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 subsimilis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Jamaica and Cuba and has also been recorded from Florida in the United States.
Ethmia nigritaenia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from southern Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to north-western Costa Rica.
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 semiombra is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Texas and 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.