Biology:Chionodes obscurusella

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Short description: Species of moth

Chionodes obscurusella
- 2099 – Chionodes obscurusella – Boxelder Leafworm Moth (22450340473).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species:
C. obscurusella
Binomial name
Chionodes obscurusella
(Chambers, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia negundella Depressaria obscurusella
  • Chambers, 1872 Chambers, 1872
  • Heinrich, 1920 Chionodes asema
  • Gelechia obscurella Clarke, 1947
  • Gelechia fuscopulvella Walsingham, 1903

Chionodes obscurusella, the boxelder leafworm moth, is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to North Carolina and Oklahoma.[2][3]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dull ochreous fuscous spotted with black, with a small black sub-costal dot at the base of the wing. There is a small black dash from the basal third of the costa, below and beyond this and occupying about the middle of the cell is a broad ill-defined patch of blackish scales. There is a more or less obscure shading of black scales on the middle of the costa, as well as a black dash just before the apical third of the costa, and below it, extending to the dorsum, an irregular, ill-defined black line. A faint dusting of black scales is found near the outer margin of the wing. The hindwings are very pale, semi-transparent whitish-fuscous.[4]

The larvae are leaf-tiers on Acer negundo and Acer saccharum.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13463570 entry