Chionodes agriodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from southern Alberta and southern British Columbia to Utah, Colorado and California.[2][3]

Chionodes agriodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species:
C. agriodes
Binomial name
Chionodes agriodes
(Meyrick, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia agriodes Meyrick, 1927
  • Gelechia seculaella Clarke, 1932

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are light grey irrorated dark grey and with the stigmata blackish-grey, the plical and first discal elongate, the plical somewhat anterior, the second discal roundish but with a fine projecting dash anteriorly. There is a marginal series of small cloudy blackish-grey spots around the posterior part of the costa and termen partly in the cilia. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chionodes agriodes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Chionodes at funet
  3. ^ mothphotographersgroup
  4. ^ Exot. Microlep. 3 (11): 350