ETHMIIDAE in Australia Black-spotted Moths GELECHIOIDEA

ETHMIIDAE caterpillar

ETHMIIDAE moths

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Here we treat this as a separate family as per Nielsen, Edwards and Rangsi, although others have included it as a subfamily of OECOPHORIDAE or of ELACHISTIDAE. The 14 named Australian species in ETHMIIDAE are:

Ethmia anthracopis
Ethmia clytodoxa
Ethmia eupostica
Ethmia heliomela
Ethmia hemadelpha
Ethmia heptasema
Ethmia nigroapicella
Ethmia postica
Ethmia praeclara
Ethmia pseustis
Ethmia sphaerosticha
Ethmia sporadica
Ethmia thoraea

Ethmia virilisca

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(updated 31 May 2014, 8 July 2016, 30 March 2019)