Chionodes thoraceochrella

Chionodes thoraceochrella is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.^[1] It is found in North America, 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.^[2][3]

Chionodes thoraceochrella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Chionodes
Species:	C. thoraceochrella
Binomial name
Chionodes thoraceochrella (Chambers, 1872)
Synonyms
Gelechia thoraceochrella Chambers, 1872 Gelechia nigrimaculella Busck, 1903

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.^[4]

The larvae feed on Quercus alba, Quercus bicolor, Quercus rubra and Prunus virginiana.