''Charistica callichroma'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy (biology), taxonomy ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1914. It is found in

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and possibly Amazonas, Brazil. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 12–13 mm. The forewings are black with the base narrowly metallic-blue green, extended as a thick streak along the dorsum to the middle. There are slender interrupted yellow transverse streaks between this streak and the costa at one-sixth and before the middle, and the space between them is traversed by a yellow costal line and subcostal and median streaks, alternating with narrow metallic-blue green finely black-edged streaks, the yellow subcostal streak divided by a fine black line. There is a slender violet-leaden transverse median fascia, narrowly edged with black ground colour, considerably expanded posteriorly beneath but not quite reaching the dorsum. The wing beyond this is wholly orange red, except for a yellow wedge-shaped mark on the costa beyond the median fascia, and a bright purple triangular patch extending over the termen with its apex reaching inwards in the disc nearly to the fascia. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males sometimes tinged with orange towards the subdorsal area, in females with he anterior two-thirds of the wing more or less wholly orange.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1914: 269.

References

Charistica Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths described in 1914 {{Gelechiinae-stub