Ethmia amasina

Ethmia amasina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Ethmia
Species:	E. amasina
Binomial name
	Ethmia amasina; (Staudinger, 1880)
Synonyms
	Psecadia amasina Staudinger, 1880;

Ethmia amasina is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1880. It is found in Asia Minor (Amasia), Syria, Iraq (Kurdistan) and Iran.

The wingspan is 20–24 mm (0.79–0.94 in). The forewings are white with three black dots on the wing, two on the fold and one after the cell. There is also a row of eight to eleven marginal points. The hindwings are dull grey.

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia amasina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
^ Ethmia at funet
^ Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidoptera-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae (in German). 15. Russkoe ėntomologicheskoe obshchestvo: 292. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Ethmia amasina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.

[2] Ethmia at funet

[3] Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidoptera-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae (in German). 15. Russkoe ėntomologicheskoe obshchestvo: 292. Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.