Bucculatrix staintonella

Bucculatrix staintonella is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae.[2] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, South Dakota and West Virginia. The species was described in 1878 by Vactor Tousey Chambers.

Bucculatrix staintonella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. staintonella
Binomial name
Bucculatrix staintonella
Synonyms
  • Bucculatrix pertenuis Braun, 1918

The wingspan is 6.5–9 mm. The forewings vary from pure white (with merely a few brownish or black-tipped scales in the apex and in the cilia of the termen) to creamy white with more or less well-defined oblique and longitudinal ocherous streaks and a line of blackish scales. The hindwings are pale greyish, but sometimes ferruginous ocherous. Adults have been recorded on wing in January, from March to April, from June to July and from September to October.[3]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Populus species.

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