Eretmocera florifera

Description

Eretmocera florifera is a moth of the family Scythrididae. This species is known from South Africa. This species has a wingspan of 12 mm. Its forewings are purple-blackish with a moderate roundish pale ochreous-yellow spot in the disc at one-third and a small whitish yellow spot on the tornus and one rather beyond it on the costa. The hindwings are bright deep yellow with a dark purplish-fuscous apical patch covering rather more than one-fourth, the anterior edge with projections in disc and on the termen. Adults have been recorded in wing in October and December.