Scythris sinensis

Scythris sinensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the Austrian entomologists Baron Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. The moth is found in Asia, Europe and North America.

Scythris sinensis
Scythris sinensis in Bucharest, Romania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Scythrididae
Genus:	Scythris
Species:	S. sinensis
Binomial name
Scythris sinensis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) [1]
Synonyms
List Butalis sinensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 Staintonia apiciguttella Christoph, 1882 Scythris pyrrhopyga Filipjev, 1924 Eretmocera pentaxantha Meyrick, 1929 Scythris kibarae Matsumura, 1931 Scythris mitakeana Matsumura, 1931

Description

The wingspan is 10–14 mm. The forewings are blue-blackish and the hindwings are dark fuscous.^[2] The larvae feed on goosefoot (Chenopodium album) and common orache (Atriplex patula).^[3]

Distribution

The moth is known from the Far East and has been found in eastern Europe in recent years, probably as accidental introductions.^[4] It is also found in central Russia, southern Siberia and Pennsylvania in North America. In Great Britain the moth is only known from two specimens discovered in a shop in Kent in 1980. They were probably accidentally imported.^[4]