Bucculatrix gossypii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Bucculatricidae |
Genus: | Bucculatrix |
Species: | B. gossypii |
Binomial name | |
Bucculatrix gossypii Turner, 1926 | |
Bucculatrix gossypii is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in Queensland, Australia. The species was described in 1926 by Alfred Jefferis Turner.
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Bucculatrix eucalypti is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It was described in 1880 by Edward Meyrick and is found in Australia.
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Bucculatrix pyrivorella is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in Japan, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It was described in 1964 by Hiroshi Kuroko.
Bucculatrix artemisiella is a species of moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in most of Europe. It was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855.
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