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Eretmocera florifera

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Heteroneura

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Scythridinae

Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae. This species is known from South Africa.

This species has a wingspan of 12 mm. Its forewings are purple-blackish with a moderate roundish pale ochreous-yellow spot in the disc at one-third and a small whitish yellow spot on the tornus and one rather beyond it on the costa. The hindwings are bright deep yellow with a dark purplish-fuscous apical patch covering rather more than one-fourth, the anterior edge with projections in disc and on the termen. Adults have been recorded in wing in October and December.

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Eretmocera florifera Wikipedia


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