Chionodes

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Genus of moths

title: "Chionodes" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["chionodes", "gelechiini", "gelechiidae-genera", "taxa-named-by-jacob-hübner"] description: "Genus of moths" topic_path: "general/chionodes" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionodes" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of moths ::

| image = Chionodes electella.jpg |image_caption = Chionodes electella | taxon = Chionodes | authority = Hübner, 1825 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | synonyms =

  • Chionoda Hübner, [1826]
  • Oxycryptis Meyrick, 1912 Chionodes is a genus of moths of the family Gelechiidae. It is distributed throughout much of the world. The larvae of many species use the Douglas fir as a host plant.

Species

Status unclear

  • Chionodes decolorella (Heinemann, 1870), described as Gelechia decolorella and recorded from Austria and Serbia
  • Chionodes decolorella ab. colorella (Caradja, 1920), described as Gelechia decolorella ab. colorella and recorded from the Alai Mountains

References

  • , 1999: Fascicle 7.6 of The Moths of American North of Mexico (Gelechioidea: Gelechiidae).
  • , 1995: A taxonomic revision of Palaearctic Chionodes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie 45 (1): 3-108.
  • , 2012: Chionodes meridiochilensis sp. nov. from Chile: contribution to an understanding of its biology and description of its early stages (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Acta zoologica cracoviensia 55 (1): 45-58. Full article: http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc/pdf/55(1)/55(1)_04.pdf.
  • , 2007: Two new species of Chionodes Hübner from Ecuador, with a summary of known Galapagos records of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera). Revue suisse de Zoologie 114 (2): 175-184.

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