''Protopterna eremia'' is a species of
moth of the family
Tortricidae. It is found in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
on the island of
Honshu.
The
wingspan is about . The forewings are rust brown, suffused with brown and black brown and with a few darker and paler spots. The ground colour is reduced to slender cream fascia and a subterminal cream spot at the costa followed by smaller spots reaching the apex. There are also silver-blue refractive spots forming lines subterminally. The hindwings are grey brown, darkening towards the peripheries.
Some Japanese genera and species of the tribe Euliini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)
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References
Moths described in 1900
Cnephasiini
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