Chionodes salva

Chionodes salva is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.^[1] It is found in the West Indies.^[2][3]

Chionodes salva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Chionodes
Species:	C. salva
Binomial name
Chionodes salva (Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
Phthorimaea salva Meyrick, 1925 Gelechia leucocephala Walsingham, 1897 (preocc.)

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, with dark brownish-fuscous mottlings or ill-defined patches, the first at the base reaching the costa, but not the dorsum, is connected narrowly on the costa and along the fold with a second, which is larger and extends nearly to the middle of the wing but does not cross the fold, this is also narrowly connected along the costa with a smaller costal patch at two-thirds from the base, a few dark fuscous scales lying at the end of the cell below it. The hindwings are pale shining grey.^[4]