Description of Choreutidae
The Choreuitidae are members of the Superfamily Choreutoidea (formerly part of Superfamily Sesioidea). They are a small family of moths with about 400 described species distributed worldwide, many undescribed tropical species, and about 30 species described in America north of Mexico. Adults are small, diurnal moths with broad wings (wingspan 0.9-1.4 cm), which some species flick in a characteristic fashion as they strut jerkily about on host-plant leaves. Mostly dark-colored, with black or brown wings marked by metallic gray, white, or silvery blue. Larvae are slender with elongate abdominal prolegs, living externally in slight webs, from which they graze on leaf surfaces.
