Chionodes retiniella

Chionodes retiniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species: C. retiniella
Binomial name
Chionodes retiniella
(Barnes & Busck, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia retiniella Barnes & Busck, 1920
  • Gelechia langei Keifer, 1936

Chionodes retiniella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family.[1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, British Columbia, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California.[2][3]

The wingspan is 18-21 mm. The forewings are white, heavily overlaid with light ochreous scales, which only leaves the white ground colour exposed on a very diffused outwardly oblique fascia from the basal fourth of the costa to the basal third of the dorsum, on a similarly ill-defined transverse fascia across the middle of the wing and on a somewhat better defined transverse fascia at apical fourth. The hindwings are silvery fuscous.[4]

The larvae feed on Pinus ponderosa, Pinus sabiniana and Tsuga heterophylla.

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