Eretmocera fuscipennis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), Gambia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania (Zanzibar) and Zimbabwe.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Scythrididae |
| Genus: | Eretmocera |
| Species: | E. fuscipennis
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| Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
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The wingspan is 11–13 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Clerodendrum species.[3]
References
edit- ^ Eretmocera at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Afro Moths
- ^ Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361