Inga erythema

Inga erythema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Inga
Species:	I. erythema
Binomial name
	Inga erythema; (Walsingham, 1912)
Synonyms
	Cryptolechia erythema Walsingham, 1912; Cryptolechia marcella Busck, 1914; Machimia erythema Walsingham, 1912;

Inga erythema is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Walsingham in 1912.[1] It is found in Guyana, Brazil and Central America.[2]

The wingspan is 20–22 mm. The forewings are rosy, with an ochreous tinge towards the base, the colour becoming more strongly pink, narrowly along the costa and more widely around the termen. The extreme edge of the costa is ochreous, with a black spot at the base and a smoky black spot lies in the middle of the fold, another on the cell above and before it, and at the end of the cell is a stronger black spot surrounded by a smoky fuscous suffusion extending downward, and obliquely upward toward the apex. There is a line of smoky blackish scales, tending obliquely outward from the costa, forming an angle on vein seven, reverting parallel with the termen to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are yellowish ochreous, with a strong rosy tint about the apex.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Machimia erythema". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
Inga at funet
Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 124

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Machimia erythema". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.

[2] Inga at funet

[3] Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 124