Mesophleps adustipennis

Mesophleps adustipennis, the soybean webworm moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the western and southern parts of the United States (California, Texas, Mississippi and Florida), Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, the West Indies (the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Guana, St Thomas, St Croix, Anguilla, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), Peru, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo).

Soybean webworm moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Mesophleps
Species:	M. adustipennis
Binomial name
Mesophleps adustipennis (Walsingham, 1897)
Synonyms
Lathontogenus adustipennis Walsingham, 1897 Lipatia crotalariella Busck, 1910

The wingspan is 7.5–18 mm.

The larvae feed on Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria, Acacia farnesiana and Pithecellobium pallens.^[1]