''Erigethes strobilacei'' 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 ...

of the family

Scythrididae Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophor ...

, and the only species in the genus ''Erigethes''. It was described by

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in 1907. It is found in

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and

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. The

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is 10–13 mm. The forewings are yellowish white, speckled and mottled with olive-grey, becoming darker or more fuscous in certain spots, these are indistinctly separable from the profuse speckling which commences a little beyond the base, three are placed on the line of the fold at equal distances, the outer one being a little beyond the middle of the wing. There is also a small spot about the flexus, another beyond the end of the cell, and the speckling about the end of the termen is somewhat grouped, with intermediate pale spaces at and below the apex, it is also partly distributed through the pale whitish cinereous cilia. The hindwings are very pale bronzy grey. The species is extremely abundant toward the latter end of March and in the beginning of April. The larvae feed ob '' Halocnemon strobilaceum''.Ent. mon. Mag. 43 (514): 57

References

Scythrididae Moths described in 1907 {{Scythrididae-stub