Chaeopsestis

{{Short description|Monotypic moth genus in family Drepanidae}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Drepanidae

| subfamilia = Thyatirinae

| genus = Chaeopsestis

| genus_authority = Le Cerf, 1941

| species = C. ludovicae

| binomial = Chaeopsestis ludovicae

| binomial_authority = Le Cerf, 1941

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Chaeopsestis is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Drepaninae first described by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1941.{{LepIndex |id=57783 |accessdate=May 19, 2018}} Its single species, Chaeopsestis ludovicae, was described in the same paper.{{LepIndex |id=57784 |name=Chaeopsestis ludovicae |accessdate=August 14, 2018}} It is found in Vietnam, Thailand and the Chinese provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan.{{cite journal |last1=Jiang |first1=Nan |last2=Yang |first2=Chao |last3=Xue |first3=Dayong |last4=Han |first4=Hongxiang |date=March 2015 |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3941.1.1 |title=An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3941 |issue=1 |pages=1–48 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1 |pmid=25947492|url-access=subscription }}

Adults are on wing from October to November. Adults drink the tears of several animals including humans (lachryphagy). The moth attaches itself to the eyelid. It has also been recorded drinking sweat and fluids from the nose.{{Smallcaps|Hans Bänziger}} (1992). [http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/53001446.pdf "Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721184646/http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/53001446.pdf# |date=2011-07-21 }}. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 40: 92–102.