Bucculatrix staintonella
Bucculatrix staintonella is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described in 1878 by Vactor Tousey Chambers and 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.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Bucculatricidae |
| Genus: | Bucculatrix |
| Species: | B. staintonella |
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| Bucculatrix staintonella | |
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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.[2]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Populus species.
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