Choristostigma leucosalis

Choristostigma leucosalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Choristostigma
Species: C. leucosalis
Binomial name
Choristostigma leucosalis
(Barnes & McDunnough, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Diasemia leucosalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1914

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.

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