Bucculatrix flexuosa

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Bucculatrix flexuosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. flexuosa
Binomial name
Bucculatrix flexuosa
Walsingham, 1897

Bucculatrix flexuosa is a moth in the Bucculatricidae family. The species was described in 1897 by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham. It is found in the West Indies. [1]

The larvae feed on Acacia nilotica .

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Bucculatrix flexuosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved April 27, 2018.