Ethmia howdeni is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is native to Mexico and Central America.
The length of the forewings is . The ground color of the forewings is off-white, irregularly and indistinctly blotched with pale gray to almost entirely pale grayish. The ground color of the hindwings is semitranslucent off-white basally, becoming pale brownish in the apical area and along the hind margin.[1]