''Chionodes thoraceochrella'' is a
moth in the family
Gelechiidae.
It is found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, where it has been recorded from
Nova Scotia and southern
Quebec to
Georgia,
North Dakota,
Mississippi,
Texas and
Washington, east to
California,
Utah and
Arizona.
The
wingspan is 13–15 mm. The forewings are whitish fuscous but obscured by a sprinkling of dark-brown and black scales. An ill-defined longitudinal streak below the costal edge is whitish and the costal edge is nearly black. There is an oblique short black dash on the middle of the disc, and just below this a similar one. An obscure outwardly angulated narrow white fascia is found at the apical third, and just before this is a costal and a dorsal blackish spot nearly reaching each other. The hindwings are light fuscous, darker toward tip.
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 25 (1304) : 880
The larvae feed on '' Quercus alba'', '' Quercus bicolor'', ''Quercus rubra
''Quercus rubra'', the northern red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group (''Quercus'' section ''Lobatae''). It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It has been introdu ...
'' and '' Prunus virginiana''.
References
Chionodes
Moths described in 1872
Moths of North America
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