Chocophorus leptochorda

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, April, May, June, August, October and November.

References

  1. ^ Neotropical Pterophoridae 9: Chocophorus, a new neotropical genus (Lepidoptera)
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