Chionodes retiniella
| Chionodes retiniella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Chionodes |
| Species: | C. retiniella |
| Binomial name | |
| Chionodes retiniella (Barnes & Busck, 1920) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chionodes retiniella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family.[1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, British Columbia, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California.[2][3]
The wingspan is 18–21 mm. The forewings are white, heavily overlaid with light ochreous scales, which only leaves the white ground colour exposed on a very diffused outwardly oblique fascia from the basal fourth of the costa to the basal third of the dorsum, on a similarly ill-defined transverse fascia across the middle of the wing and on a somewhat better defined transverse fascia at apical fourth. The hindwings are silvery fuscous.[4]
The larvae feed on Pinus ponderosa, Pinus sabiniana and Tsuga heterophylla.
References
- ↑ "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
- ↑ Chionodes at funet
- ↑ mothphotographersgroup
- ↑ Contr. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 4 (3) : 228
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