Family Choreutidae (Choreuitid Moths)

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.

Subfamily:

Brenthia pavonacella Peacock Brenthia (Clemens, 1860)

Caloreas apocynoglossa

Caloreas multimarginata

Choreutis diana Diana's Choreutis Moth (Hübner, [1822])

Choreutis pariana Apple Leaf Skeletonizer (Clerck, 1759)

Prochoreutis extrincicella (Dyar, 1900)

Prochoreutis inflatella (Clemens, 1863)

Prochoreutis pernivalis

Tebenna carduiella (Kearfott, 1902)

Tebenna gemmalis (Hulst, 1886)

Tebenna gnaphaliella Everlasting Tebenna Moth (Kearfott, 1902)

Tebenna onustana (Walker, 1864)

Tebenna silphiella Rosinweed Moth (Grote, 1881)

Tortyra iocyaneus (Heppner, 1991)

Tortyra slossonia Slosson's Metalmark Moth (Fernald, 1900)

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Description of Choreutidae

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Photographs of Choreutidae

Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
Choreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Tebenna carduiella

Peacock Brenthia
Brenthia pavonacella

Prochoreutis extrincicella

Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
Choreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Prochoreutis inflatella

Slosson's Metalmark Moth
Tortyra slossonia

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

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Family Choreutidae (Choreuitid Moths)

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Photographs of Choreutidae

Apple Leaf SkeletonizerChoreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna MothTebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna MothTebenna gnaphaliella

Peacock BrenthiaBrenthia pavonacella

Apple Leaf SkeletonizerChoreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna MothTebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna MothTebenna gnaphaliella

Slosson's Metalmark MothTortyra slossonia

Everlasting Tebenna MothTebenna gnaphaliella

Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
Choreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Peacock Brenthia
Brenthia pavonacella

Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
Choreutis pariana

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella

Slosson's Metalmark Moth
Tortyra slossonia

Everlasting Tebenna Moth
Tebenna gnaphaliella