<documentid="BF7EAA53CE352A6C578D2E5750AD9EDF"ID-CLB-Dataset="28703"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.461.8377"ID-GBIF-Dataset="0e4b701e-75de-45e2-89dc-223d460e755d"ID-PMC="PMC4283717"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-461-1"ID-PubMed="25561859"ID-ZooBank="350663FDE2024E61968548B2109EDFF8"ModsDocAuthor=""ModsDocDate="2014"ModsDocID="1313-2970-461-1"ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 461"ModsDocTitle="A synopsis of the genus Ethmia Hübner in Costa Rica: biology, distribution, and description of 22 new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Depressariidae, Ethmiinae), with emphasis on the 42 species known from Área de Conservación Guanacaste"checkinTime="1451244993677"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Phillips-Rodriguez, Eugenie, Powell, Jerry A., Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H."docDate="2014"docId="F5B2116E2D6B09F24BBA61169FDFD391"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 461: 1-86"docOrigin="ZooKeys 461"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.461.8377"docTitle="Ethmia bittenella"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"lastPageNumber="6"masterDocId="FFD67D05FF9E2613FFE7FFFAA724FFAC"masterDocTitle="A synopsis of the genus Ethmia Huebner in Costa Rica: biology, distribution, and description of 22 new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Depressariidae, Ethmiinae), with emphasis on the 42 species known from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste"masterLastPageNumber="86"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="6"updateTime="1732586929491"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="C41CEE6CE441C3151AB8F708D201EB86">A synopsis of the genus Ethmia Huebner in Costa Rica: biology, distribution, and description of 22 new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Depressariidae, Ethmiinae), with emphasis on the 42 species known from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste</mods:title>
<bibRefCitationid="9667A3402A7762912A32ED7470ED62E7"author="Powell, JA"journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology"pageId="52"pageNumber="53"title="A systematic monograph of New World Ethmiid moths."volume="120"year="1973">Powell 1973</bibRefCitation>
Male: FW length 7.8-8.3 mm (n = 4). Head: Scaling of front and crown smooth, white. Thorax: Pronotal scaling white; paired large spots, black, reflecting metallic blue, between tegulae and on scutellum. FW ground color white, markings blackish brown; a round spot on posterior half near base; gray costal margin. HW whitish basally, becoming pale brownish apically; costa dorsally with thick ochreous hair pencil from base to end of cell. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 47) with uncus short, hood like; basal processes short, about 1.2
Female: FW length 8.7-9.8 mm (n = 3). Head and thorax: As described for male, HW unmodified. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 92) with sterigma wide surrounding ostium; ductus unsclerotized; signum as in
<paragraphid="C5EEFC85D896E316E6CAFE132F53EDF3"pageId="5"pageNumber="6">Female: USA, Texas, Brownsville, in copula, 29 May 1904. USNM Type No. 9272 [USNM, examined].</paragraph>
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<paragraphid="FB8E25070E67821420CD3B8C58EEE4DA"pageId="5"pageNumber="6">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
has been collected from Texas to southern Mexico and in northwestern Costa Rica (
<bibRefCitationid="7CB84FA280B0FEB09FD381F92395B006"author="Powell, JA"journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology"pageId="52"pageNumber="53"title="A systematic monograph of New World Ethmiid moths."volume="120"year="1973">Powell 1973</bibRefCitation>
). In Costa Rica (Fig. 147) it is a common species in the dry forest of ACG, and has been found from 100 to 600 m on both slopes of the Cordillera