''Epermenia philocoma'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Epermeniidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The

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is about 11 mm. The forewings are clear brassy yellow, the basal third of the costa sprinkled with dark fuscous and with an ochreous-brown triangular patch with violet reflections extending along the posterior half of the dorsum and termen to the apex, reaching more than halfway across the wings. The anterior edge is obliquely marked with two silvery-lilac spots sprinkled with blackish, representing the plical and first discal stigmata. There is a less marked, similar spot above the tornus, apparently representing the second discal stigma. The hindwings are grey. The larvae have a reddish body and head. They have been recorded living in a white web on the midrib of an unknown plant, the web being on both sides of the leaf, kept off the surface by little pillars of excrement. The webs on either surface of the leaf are connected by holes through the leaf itself, and the larva uses these holes as a means of escaping observation. The cocoon is separate and made close to the midrib. It is oval and resembles a bird dropping.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 22 (4): 776.

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Epermeniidae Moths described in 1914 Moths of Asia {{Epermenioidea-stub