Chionodes discoocellella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Chionodes |
Species: | C. discoocellella
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Binomial name | |
Chionodes discoocellella (
Chambers, 1872)
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Synonyms | |
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Chionodes discoocellella, the eyeringed chionodes moth, is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. [1] It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Maine to South Dakota, Florida, Texas and Colorado. [2] [3]
The forewings are brown, tinged with roseate or purple, and faintly streaked with ocherous within the inner margin, and with a yellowish-white spot containing a black central dot at the end of the disc, a small black spot on the fold, and one about the middle of the wing, and with a few ocherous-yellow small spots around the apex between the nervules. [4]
The larvae feed on Fallopia convolvulus, Persicaria chinensis, Persicaria pensylvanica, Persicaria punctata and Rumex crispus.
Chionodes discoocellella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Chionodes |
Species: | C. discoocellella
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Binomial name | |
Chionodes discoocellella (
Chambers, 1872)
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Synonyms | |
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Chionodes discoocellella, the eyeringed chionodes moth, is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. [1] It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Maine to South Dakota, Florida, Texas and Colorado. [2] [3]
The forewings are brown, tinged with roseate or purple, and faintly streaked with ocherous within the inner margin, and with a yellowish-white spot containing a black central dot at the end of the disc, a small black spot on the fold, and one about the middle of the wing, and with a few ocherous-yellow small spots around the apex between the nervules. [4]
The larvae feed on Fallopia convolvulus, Persicaria chinensis, Persicaria pensylvanica, Persicaria punctata and Rumex crispus.