''Ethmia adrianforsythi'' is a
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
in the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
* Acriinae ...
. It is found in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
, where it has been recorded from middle elevations on the Caribbean slope of the Cordillera Volcánica de Guanacaste and in the lowlands of Sarapiquí. The habitat consists of rain forests.
The length of the forewings is for males and for females. The ground color of the forewings is white with several dark spots in the costal half and two dark spots of similar size in the posterior half. There is a light brown band from the base of the costa. The base of the costa is dark, split by a white spot and there is a large reddish spot surrounded by brown from the costal band to the dorsal area, covering all the area antemedial to the postmedial. The terminal area is reddish, blending to golden at the apex and there is one large spot beyond the cell. The hindwing ground colour is brownish with a pale ochreous termen.
Etymology
The species is named in honor of Adrian Forsyth for his support of tropical biodiversity conservation from Monteverde to the Osa Peninsula to
Área de Conservación Guanacaste.
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References
Moths described in 2014
adrianforsythi
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