Choristostigma leucosalis
| Choristostigma leucosalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Choristostigma |
| Species: | C. leucosalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Choristostigma leucosalis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914) | |
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Choristostigma leucosalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Barnes and McDunnough in 1914.[1] It is found in Mexico[2] and the southern United States, where it has been recorded from southern California,[3] Arizona and Texas.[4]
The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are light yellow with a slight sprinkling of brown scales and the veins are more or less marked in brown. The basal portion of the costa is shaded with purple-brown. The lines are brown and the orbicular is round and more or less filled with purple-brown. The reniform is a quadrate purplish blotch, the lower portion of which is usually lost in some brown scaling. There is a small quadrate hyaline white spot separating the reniform and orbicular. The hindwings are pale whitish-yellow with a broad brown outer border, a minute discal dot and a median dark line.[5] Adults are on wing in April and from October to November.
References
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ BOLD Systems
- ↑ Bug Guide
- ↑ mothphotographersgroup
- ↑ Barnes, William. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America II. Vol. 2. 1913