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Eretmocera xanthonota

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Eretmocera xanthonota is a moth of the Scythrididae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on Sumba.

The wingspan is 16-17 mm. The forewings are very deep purple with four ochreous-yellow or orange spots, the first on the dorsum at one-fourth of the wing small, the others moderately large, roundish, in the disc at two-fifths, on the tornus, and on the costa at four-fifths respectively. The hindwings are dark purple-fuscous.

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