Polyhymno chionarcha

Polyhymno chionarcha is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape), Tanzania and Zimbabwe.[1][2]

Polyhymno chionarcha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Polyhymno
Species:
P. chionarcha
Binomial name
Polyhymno chionarcha
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 9–11 mm. The forewings are shining white with an irregular blackish streak along the costa from the base to three-fourths, thickened near the base and towards the middle, terminated by an acutely angulated silvery-metallic transverse line running to the tornus, edged with blackish towards the tornus, the angle of this line filled by a fulvous spot preceded by two black marks. There is sometimes a small cloudy blackish spot on the dorsum before the middle. The area beyond this line is fulvous, on the costa blackish with two outwardly oblique white strigulae and one inwardly oblique. The hindwings are grey, more or less whitish tinged anteriorly.[3]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 7, 2019). "Polyhymno chionarcha Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Polyhymno chionarcha Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  3. Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 282 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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