Fringe-tufted
Moths. Epermeniidae are small
narrow-winged moths, 7-20 mm. in wingspan, with
conspicuous whorls of bristles on their legs, lacking
spines on the abdomen unlike some similar moths. The
smoothly scaled head bears no
ocelli or "chaetosemata". They can be most easily
confused with
Stathmopodinae (Oecophoridae),
which unlike epermeniids have the tarsi of the forelegs
and midlegs without the whorls of spines, and whose
proboscis is scaled at the base (Robinson et al., 1994,
for further details). The projecting scale tufts on the
inner margin of the hindwing
is the easiest field character (Common, 1990).
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