Chocophorus leptochorda

Chocophorus leptochorda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Chocophorus
Species:	C. leptochorda
Binomial name
Chocophorus leptochorda (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
Alucita leptochorda Meyrick, 1913 Alucita trichogramma Walsingham, 1915

Chocophorus leptochorda is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Venezuela.

The wingspan is 12–25 mm. The head is scaled with mixed grey-white and dark brown scales. The antennae are grey-brown. The thorax is olive brown and grey-white mixed, with a double whitish line at the dorsum and laterally a single longitudinal line. The forewings are dark brown with white lines and a white transverse band. The fringes are blocked brown and white. The underside of the forewing is chocolate-brown turning pale in both lobes toward the apex. The hindwings and fringes are brown-grey. The underside of the hindwings is dark brown, but paler toward apex of all lobes.^[1] Adults have been recorded in February and May.^[2]

References

1. Neotropical Pterophoridae 9: Chocophorus, a new neotropical genus (Lepidoptera)
2. Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II. Zool. Med. Leiden 85 (2011)