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)


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