Chionodes cerussata

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Chionodes cerussata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species:
C. cerussata
Binomial name
Chionodes cerussata
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia cerussata Walsingham, 1911
  • Friseria cerussata

Chionodes cerussata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It is found in Mexico (Vera Cruz).[2]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, with a very narrow, pale cream-ochreous, straight, transverse band at the extreme base, and an elongate-ovate white patch, sparsely dusted with fuscous, occupying the tornus and termen, with the cilia, to below the apex, near which it encloses a dark fuscous dot. The cilia at the extreme apex and above it is smoky fuscous and a blackish dot occurs on the disc, above the middle, at scarcely one-half from the base. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Friseria cerussata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Chionodes at funet
  3. ^ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 61 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.