''Chionodes braunella'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Gelechiidae.
It is found in
North America
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, where it has been recorded from
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
and
British Columbia
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to
Colorado
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,
Arizona
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,
California
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and to
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
, southern
Ontario
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and
Maine
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.
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The larvae feed on ''Lupinus albifrons
''Lupinus albifrons'', silver lupine, white-leaf bush lupine, or evergreen lupine, is a species of lupine (lupin). It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows along the coast and in dry and open meadows, prairies and forest clearings. ...
'', '' Lupinus arboreus'', '' Lupinus chamissionis'', ''Lupinus excubitus
''Lupinus excubitus'' is a species of lupine known as the grape soda lupine. Its common name refers to its sweet scent, which is said to be very reminiscent of grape soda. This species and its variants are found in Southwestern United States, es ...
'', ''Lupinus ornatus
''Lupinus'', commonly known as lupin, lupine, or regionally bluebonnet etc., is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. The genus includes over 199 species, with center of diversity, centers of diversity in North and South America. Sm ...
'', ''Lupinus peirsonii
''Lupinus peirsonii'' is a rare species of lupine known by the common names Peirson's lupine and long lupine. It is endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, California, where it grows in woodland and forest habitat. It is an ...
'', '' Lupinus varicolor'', ''Lotus scoparius
''Acmispon glaber'' (previously ''Lotus scoparius'') (common deerweed, deer weed, deervetch, California broom or western bird's-foot trefoil) is a perennial subshrub in the family Fabaceae (pea family). The plant is a pioneer species found in d ...
'', '' Trifolium eriocephalum'', '''', ''Vicia americana
''Vicia americana'' is a species of legume in the vetch genus known by the common names American vetch and purple vetch. It includes a subspecies known as mat vetch.
Description
It is a climbing perennial forb that grows from both taproot and ...
'', '' Lathyrus vestitus'', '' Lathyrus sulphureus'' and ''Gaylussacia
''Gaylussacia'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the majo ...
'' species.
References
Chionodes
Moths described in 1931
Moths of North America
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