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Small moth of 5 mm in length. The wings are covered with tufts of scales and when seen from the side, the moth looks lumpy and has metallic magenta colored scales. She laid a batch of 49 tiny pink eggs on a wall, each less than 0.1mm in size. They hatched on July 27, 10 days later (last picture). The larvae were hairy and less than 1 mm in length. Family Choreutidae.
Garden lights, semi-rural residential area, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2,200 meters.
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxo... https://www.naturalista.mx/taxa/67432-Ch...
Spotted on Jul 17, 2018
Submitted on Aug 19, 2018
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