Ethmia

Ethmia
	Adult E. bipunctella at Hellerup (Denmark)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Subfamily:	Ethmiinae
Genus:	Ethmia; Hübner, [1819]
Type species
	Phalaena pyrausta; Pallas, 1771
Species
	Numerous, see text
Synonyms
	; Aedia Duponchel, 1836 (non Hübner, [1823]: preoccupied); Anesychia Hübner, [1825]; Azinis Walker, 1863; Babaiaxa Busck, 1902; Ceratophysetis Meyrick, 1887; Chalybe Duponchel, 1836; Dasyethmia Danilevsky, 1969; Disthymia (lapsus); Disthymnia Hübner, [1825]; Ehtima (lapsus); Melanoleuca Stephens, 1829; Psecadia Hübner, [1825]; Tamarrha Walker, 1864; Theoxenia Walsingham, 1887; Wiltshireia Amsel, 1949 (non Buckman, 1904: preoccupied)

Ethmia is a large genus of small moths. It is the type genus of the gelechioid family Ethmiidae, which is sometimes included in Elachistidae or Oecophoridae as subfamily.

Selected species

Species of Ethmia include:^[2]

Albitogata species-group

Ethmia albitogata (Walsingham, 1907)
Ethmia brevistriga (Clarke, 1950)
Ethmia coquillettella (Busck, 1967)
Ethmia lassenella (Busck, 1908)
Ethmia minuta (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia monachella (Busck, 1910)
Ethmia plagiobothrae (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia scylla (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia tricula (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia umbrimarginella (Busck, 1907)

Amasina species-group

Ethmia amasina (Staudinger, 1879)

Assamensis species-group

Ethmia anatiformis (Kun, 2001)
Ethmia assamensis (Butler, 1879)
Ethmia autoschista (Meyrick, 1932)
Ethmia hunanensis (Liu, 1980)
Ethmia maculata (Sattler, 1967)

Aurifluella species-group

Ethmia aurifluella (Hübner, [1810])
Ethmia lugubris (Staudinger, 1879)
Ethmia maracandica (Rebel, 1901)
Ethmia quadripunctella (Eversmann, 1844)
Ethmia vidua (Staudinger, 1879)

Baliostola species-group

Ethmia baliostola (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia cubensis (Busck, 1934)

Bipunctella species-group

Ethmia bipunctella
Ethmia caliginosella (Busck, 1904)
Ethmia cirrhocnemia (Lederer, 1870)
Ethmia euphoria (Kun, 2007)
Ethmia iranella (Zerny, 1940)
Ethmia monticola (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia namangana (Rebel, 1901)
Ethmia pagiopa (Meyrick, 1918)
Ethmia treitschkeella (Staudinger, 1879)

Charybdis species-group

Ethmia charybdis (Powell, 1973)

Chrysopyga species-group

Ethmia caradjae (Rebel, 1907)
Ethmia chrysopyga

Confusella species-group

Ethmia berndkerni (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia billalleni (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia confusella (Walker, 1863)
Ethmia confusellastra (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia dimauraorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia duckworthi (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia ehakernae (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia farrella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia helenmillerae (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia humilis (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia johnpringlei (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia julia (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia sandra (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia striatella (Busck, 1913)

Conglobata species-group

Ethmia conglobata (Meyrick, 1912)

Crocosoma species-group

Ethmia crocosoma (Meyrick, 1914)
Ethmia epitrocha (Meyrick, 1914)
Ethmia maculifera (Matsumura, 1931)
Ethmia szabokyi (Kun, 2001)
Ethmia vietmiella (Kun, 2001)
Ethmia yeni (Kun, 2001)

Cyanea species-group

Ethmia cyanea (Walsingham, 1912)

Cypraeella species-group

Ethmia abraxasella (Walker, 1864)
Ethmia blaineorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia cellicoma (Meyrick, 1931)
Ethmia chalcodora (Meyrick, 1912)
Ethmia chalcogramma (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia cupreonivella (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia cypraeella (Zeller, 1863)
Ethmia cypraspis (Meyrick, 1930)
Ethmia elutella (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia epilygella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia festiva (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia fritillella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia iridella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia janzeni (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia millerorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia nivosella (Walker, 1864)
Ethmia notomurinella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia perpulchra (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia phylacops (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia proximella (Busck, 1912)
Ethmia scythropa (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia submissa (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia terpnota (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia ungulatella (Busck, 1914)

Dehiscens species-group

Ethmia dehiscens (Meyrick, 1924)

Distigmatella species-group

Ethmia alba (Amsel, 1949)
Ethmia distigmatella (Erschoff, 1874)
Ethmia falkovitshi (Shovkoon, 2010)
Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)
Ethmia tamaridella (Rebel, 1907)
Ethmia turkmeniella (Dubatolov & Ustjuzhanin, 1998)
Ethmia ustyurtensis (Nupponen, 2015)

Ditreta species-group

Ethmia arabica (Amsel, 1961) (mostly included in ditreta)
Ethmia ditreta (Meyrick, 1920)

Dodecea species-group

Ethmia albifrontella (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia angarensis (Caradja, 1939)
Ethmia candidella (Alphéraky, 1908)
Ethmia dodecea
Ethmia ermineella (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia fumidella (Wocke, 1850)
Ethmia japonica (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia pusiella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ethmia quadrillella (Goeze, 1783)
Ethmia septempunctata (Christoph, 1882)
Ethmia zygospila (Meyrick, 1934)

Exornata species-group

Ethmia adrianforsythi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia dianemillerae (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia exornata (Zeller, 1877)
Ethmia gelidella (Walker, 1864)
Ethmia mnesicosma (Meyrick, 1924)
Ethmia phylacis (Walsingham, 1912)

Gigantea species-group

Ethmia gigantea (Busck, 1914)

Haemorrhoidella species-group

Ethmia haemorrhoidella (Eversmann, 1844)
Ethmia subsidiaris (Meyrick, 1935)

Hagenella species-group

Ethmia burnsella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia hagenella (Chambers, 1878)
Ethmia mimihagenella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia zelleriella (Chambers, 1878)

Hammella species-group

Ethmia hammella (Busck, 1910)

Joviella species-group

Ethmia joviella (Walsingham, 1897)
Ethmia linda (Busck, 1914)

Kirbyi species-group

Ethmia bittenella (Busck, 1910)
Ethmia clarkei (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia davisella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia delliella (Fernald, 1891)
Ethmia kirbyi (Moeschler, 1890)
Ethmia linsdalei (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia subsimilis (Walsingham, 1897)

Lapidella species-group

Ethmia bisignata (Kun, 2002)
Ethmia didyma (Kun, 2002)
Ethmia heptasema (Turner, 1898)
Ethmia lapidella (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia nobilis (Diakonoff, [1968])
Ethmia octanoma (Meyrick, 1914)
Ethmia reposita (Diakonoff, [1968])
Ethmia stojanovitsi (Kun, 2002)

Lineatonotella species-group

Ethmia galactarcha (Meyrick, 1928)
Ethmia lineatonotella (Moore, 1867)
Ethmia palawana (Schultze, 1925)
Ethmia thomaswitti (Kun, 2004)
Ethmia trifida (Kun, 2004)

Longimaculella species-group

Ethmia calumniella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia catapeltica (Meyrick, 1924)
Ethmia coronata (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia flavicaudata (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia hendersonorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia hieroglyphica (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia howdeni (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia laphamorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia lesliesaulae (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia lichyi (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia longimaculella (Chambers, 1872)
Ethmia nicholsonorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia nigritaenia (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia normgershenzi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia omega (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia petersterlingi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia plaumanni (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia randycurtisi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia randyjonesi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia subnigritaenia (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia transversella (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia turnerorum (Phillips, 2014)

Lybiella species-group

Ethmia lepidella (Chrétien, 1907)
Ethmia lybiella (Ragonot, 1892)

Macelhosiella species-group

Ethmia geranella (Barnes & Busck, 1920)
Ethmia macelhosiella (Busck, 1907)
Ethmia macneilli (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia timberlakei (Powell, 1973)

Mulleri species-group

Ethmia mulleri (Busck, 1910)

Nigripedella species-group

Ethmia albolinella (Shovkoon, 2010)
Ethmia asbolarcha (Meyrick, 1938)
Ethmia bombina (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia chrysopygella (Kolenati, 1846)
Ethmia comitella (Caradja, 1927)
Ethmia flavianella (Treitschke, 1832)
Ethmia mongolica (Rebel, 1901)
Ethmia nigrimaculata (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia nigripedella (Erschoff, 1877)
Ethmia sibirica (Danilevsky, 1975)
Ethmia ubsensis (Zagulajev, 1975)
Ethmia ultima (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia umbricostella (Caradja, 1927)

Nigroapicella species-group

Ethmia dentata (Diakonoff & Sattler, 1966)
Ethmia nigroapicella (kou leafworm) (Saalmüller, 1880)

Notatella species-group

Ethmia chemsaki (Powell, 1959)
Ethmia hiramella (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia notatella (Walker, 1863)
Ethmia paucella (Walker, 1863)
Ethmia phoenicura (Meyrick, 1932)
Ethmia stephenrumseyi (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia wellingi (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia zebrata (Powell, 1959)

Papiella species-group

Ethmia papiella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia volcanella (Powell, 1973)

Piperella species-group

Ethmia piperella (Powell, 1973)

Prattiella species-group

Ethmia prattiella (Busck, 1915)

Punctessa species-group

Ethmia angustalatella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia punctessa (Powell, 1973)

Pyrausta species-group

Ethmia discrepitella (Rebel, 1901)
Ethmia nykta (Shovkoon, 2010)
Ethmia pyrausta (Pallas, 1771)

Rothschildi species-group

Ethmia pseudoscythrella (Rebel, 1902)
Ethmia rothschildi (Rebel, 1912)

Semilugens species-group

Ethmia albistrigella (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia apicipunctella (Chambers, 1875)
Ethmia arctostaphylella (Walsingham, 1880)
Ethmia discostrigella (Chambers, 1877)
Ethmia epileuca (Powell, 1959)
Ethmia mansita (Busck, 1914)
Ethmia nadia (Clarke, 1950)
Ethmia orestella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia semilugens (Zeller, 1872)
Ethmia semitenebrella (Dyar, 1902)

Suspecta species-group

Ethmia afghana (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia interposita (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia similis (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia suspecta (Sattler, 1967)

Terminella species-group

Ethmia terminella (T.B. Fletcher, 1938)

Trifurcella species-group

Ethmia albicostella (Beutenmüller, 1889)
Ethmia baja (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia clava (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia cordia (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia heptastica (Walsingham, 1912) (misspelled as Ethmia heptasticta)
Ethmia hodgesella (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia marmorea (Walsingham, 1888)
Ethmia miriamschulmanae (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia mirusella (Chambers, 1874)
Ethmia oterosella (Busck, 1934) (misspelled as Ethmia oterostella)
Ethmia pala (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia penthica (Walsingham, 1912)
Ethmia playa (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia scutula (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia semiombra (Dyar, 1902)
Ethmia similatella (Busck, 1920)
Ethmia sphenisca (Powell, 1973)
Ethmia tilneyorum (Phillips, 2014)
Ethmia trifurcella (Chambers, 1873)

Tripunctella species-group

Ethmia tripunctella (Staudinger, 1879)

Vittalbella species-group

Ethmia lecmima (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia vittalbella (Christoph, 1877)

Wursteri species-group

Ethmia derbendella (Sattler, 1967)
Ethmia infelix (Wagner, 1914)
Ethmia wursteri (Amsel, 1956)

Unassigned

Ethmia acontias (Meyrick, 1906)
Ethmia albilineata (Viette, 1952)
Ethmia ampanella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia andranella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia antennipilosa (Wang and Li, 2004)
Ethmia anthracopis (Meyrick, 1902)
Ethmia antranella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia apispinata (Wang & Wang, 2012)
Ethmia argomicta (Meyrick, 1920)
Ethmia argopa (Meyrick, 1910)
Ethmia atriflorella (Viette, 1958)
Ethmia austronamibiensis (Mey, 2011)
Ethmia baihua (Yang, 1977)
Ethmia ballistis (Meyrick, 1908)
Ethmia baronella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia befasiella (Viette, 1958)
Ethmia bicolorella (Guenée, 1879)
Ethmia bradleyi (Viette, 1952)
Ethmia cassiopeia (Meyrick, 1927)
Ethmia circumdatella (Walker, 1863)
Ethmia cirrhosoma (Meyrick, 1920)
Ethmia clytodoxa (Turner, 1917)
Ethmia comoriensis (Viette, 1963)
Ethmia coscineutis (Meyrick, 1912)
Ethmia cribravia (Wang and Li, 2004)
Ethmia cyrenaicella (Amsel, 1955)
Ethmia dactylia (Meyrick, 1912)
Ethmia damaoshanae (Wang & Zheng, 1997)
Ethmia decaryanum (Viette, 1954)
Ethmia deconfiturella (Viette, 1963)
Ethmia decui (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia defreinai (Ganev, 1984)
Ethmia duplicata^{[verification needed]} (Meyrick 1914)
Ethmia elimatella (Danilevsky, 1975)
Ethmia epiloxa (Meyrick, 1914)
Ethmia epitrocha (Meyrick, 1914)
Ethmia eupostica (Powell, 1985)
Ethmia glabra (Meyrick, 1920)
Ethmia glandifera (Meyrick, 1918)
Ethmia gonimodes (Meyrick, 1925)
Ethmia guangzhouensis (Liu, 1980)
Ethmia hainanensis (Liu, 1980)
Ethmia hakkarica (Koçak, 1986)
Ethmia hamaxastra (Meyrick, 1930)
Ethmia heliomela (Lower, 1923)
Ethmia hemadelpha (Lower, 1903)
Ethmia hemicosma (Meyrick, 1920)
Ethmia hiemalis (Danilevski, 1969)
Ethmia hilarella (Walker, 1863)
Ethmia humiliella (Chrétien, 1916)
Ethmia incertella (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia iphicrates (Meyrick, 1922)
Ethmia jingdongensis (Wang & Zheng, 1997)
Ethmia judicialis (Meyrick, 1921)
Ethmia kabulica (Amsel, 1969)
Ethmia kutisi (Heppner, 1991)
Ethmia leucocirrha (Meyrick, 1926)
Ethmia linosella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia livida (Zeller, 1852)
Ethmia mariannae (Karsholt & Kun, 2003)
Ethmia melanocrates (Meyrick, 1923)
Ethmia menyuanensis (Liu, 1980)
Ethmia mixtella (Chrétien, 1915)
Ethmia namella (Mey, 2011)
Ethmia novoryella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia oberthurella (Viette, 1958)
Ethmia oculigera (Möschler, 1883)
Ethmia oculimarginata (Diakonoff, 1947)
Ethmia ogovensis (Strand, 1913)
Ethmia okinawana (Matsumura, 1931)
Ethmia parabittenella (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia penesella (Kun & Szaboky, 2000)
Ethmia penyagolosella (Domingo & Baixeras, 2003)
Ethmia pericentrota (Meyrick, 1926)
Ethmia persica (Kun, 2007)
Ethmia phricotypa (Bradley, 1965)
Ethmia pingxiangensis Liu, 1980)
Ethmia postica (Zeller, 1877)
Ethmia powelli (Heppner, 1988)
Ethmia praeclara (Meyrick, 1910)
Ethmia pseudozygospila (Kun & Szaboky, 2000)
Ethmia pseustis (Turner, 1942)
Ethmia pullata (Meyrick, 1910)
Ethmia pylonotella (Viette, 1956)
Ethmia pylorella (Viette, 1956)
Ethmia rhomboidella (Walsingham, 1897)
Ethmia saalmullerella (Viette, 1958)
Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Ethmia sattleri (Kun, 2007)
Ethmia shensicola (Amsel, 1969)
Ethmia sibonensis (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia soljanikovi (Danilevsky & Zaguljaev, 1975)
Ethmia sotsaella (Viette, 1976)
Ethmia sphaerosticha (Meyrick, 1887)
Ethmia sporadica (Turner, 1942)
Ethmia spyrathodes (Meyrick, 1922)
Ethmia submersa (Diakonoff, 1966)
Ethmia susa (Kun & Szaboky, 2000)
Ethmia taxiacta (Meyrick, 1920)
Ethmia termenalbata (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia thoraea (Meyrick, 1910)
Ethmia tyranthes (Meyrick, 1934)
Ethmia unilongistriella (Capuse, 1981)
Ethmia virilisca (Powell, 1985)
Ethmia vulcanica (Kun, 2004)
Ethmia yunnanensis Liu, 1980)
Ethmia zaguljaevi (Kostjuk, 1980)

Former species

Ethmia andalusica (Staudinger, 1879)

Footnotes

^ ABRS (2008), and see references in Savela (2003)
^ See references in Savela (2003)

References

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Ethmia. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-APR-01.
Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Ethmia. Version of 2003-DEC-29. Retrieved 2010-APR-21.

[1] ABRS (2008), and see references in Savela (2003)

[2] See references in Savela (2003)

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