The species is named in honor of Ronald W. Hodges and his wife Elaine.3
Beccaloni, George; et al., eds. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2015-06-03. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/search/ ↩
Chionodes at funet http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/gelechiidae/gelechiinae/chionodes/ ↩
Metzler, E.C. (2014). "The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument 6: a new species of Chionodes Hubner, [1825] (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae) dedicated to Ronald W. Hodges and Elaine R. Snyder Hodges in the year of Ron's 80th birthday, 2014" (PDF). J. Lepidopterists' Soc. 68 (2): 81. doi:10.18473/lepi.v68i2.a2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120027/http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/2010s/2014/2014-68-2-080.pdf ↩