Chionodes helicosticta

Chionodes helicosticta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas, Arizona, California and Oregon.[2][3]

Chionodes helicosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species:
C. helicosticta
Binomial name
Chionodes helicosticta
(Meyrick, 1929)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia helicosticta Meyrick, 1929

The wingspan is 19–22 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous with a short black subcostal dash near the base, preceded and followed by whitish-brown scales or marks, sometimes a black dot beyond this. A shorter black pale-tipped dash is found on the fold somewhat beyond this. The discal stigmata are darker, laterally edged by ochreous-white scales, or sometimes reduced to pale ochreous dots, with the plical rather darker or sometimes blackish, preceded and followed by white scales, obliquely before the first discal. A faint spot of pale ochreous suffusion is found on the costa at two-thirds and there is a marginal series of small indistinct blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen, sometimes accompanied by minute ochreous-white dots. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.[4]

The larvae feed on Eriogonum nudum.

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chionodes helicosticta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. Chionodes at funet
  3. mothphotographersgroup
  4. Exot. Microlep. 3 (16): 490


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