Chionodes salva

Chionodes salva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chionodes
Species: C. salva
Binomial name
Chionodes salva
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Phthorimaea salva Meyrick, 1925
  • Gelechia leucocephala Walsingham, 1897 (preocc.)

Chionodes salva is a moth in the Gelechiidae family.[1] It is found in the West Indies.[2][3]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, with dark brownish-fuscous mottlings or ill-defined patches, the first at the base reaching the costa, but not the dorsum, is connected narrowly on the costa and along the fold with a second, which is larger and extends nearly to the middle of the wing but does not cross the fold, this is also narrowly connected along the costa with a smaller costal patch at two-thirds from the base, a few dark fuscous scales lying at the end of the cell below it. The hindwings are pale shining grey.[4]

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