| Chestnut clearwing moth | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tischeriidae |
| Genus: | Coptotriche |
| Species: | †C. perplexa |
| Binomial name | |
| †Coptotriche perplexa (Braun, 1972) | |
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The chestnut clearwing moth (Coptotriche perplexa) was a species of moth in the family Tischeriidae. It was endemic to the United States. It is characterized by clear wings and a dark and metallic blue abdomen seemingly wrapped in a yellow band of color. [2] By 1996 it had become extinct due to chestnut blight obliterating its primary food source, the American chestnut. [1]