Chocophorus venedictoffi

Chocophorus venedictoffi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Chocophorus
Species:	C. venedictoffi
Binomial name
Chocophorus venedictoffi Gielis & D.L. Matthews, 1994

Chocophorus venedictoffi is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Ecuador.

The wingspan is 18–20 mm. The head is scaled, mixed grey-white and dark brown and the face is dark brown, but slightly paler between the antennae. These are grey-brown. The thorax is dark brown with faint white-brown longitudinal lines. The forewings are dark chocolate brown with ferruginous-white faint lines at the base of the wing. The hindwings are dark brown.^[1] Adults have been recorded in March.^[2]

Etymology

The species is named after Mr. Nadian Venedictoff, who collected the species.

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)