Chionodes fumatella, the downland groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae.

[1] Outside of Europe, it is found in Turkey, the Caucasus, Mongolia and from Siberia to the Russian Far East.

Forewings brown, usually mixed with dark fuscous; usually indistinct dark fuscous spots on costa near base, at 4, and beyond middle, and in disc near base and at 4; stigmata black, often partly edged with whitish, first discal beyond plical; an indistinct pale ferruginous-tinged angulated fascia at 3/4, sometimes almost.

[5] [6][7] Adults have been recorded on wing from June to August.

This article on a moth of the genus Chionodes is a stub.