Bucculatrix maritima

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Bucculatrix maritima
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. maritima
Binomial name
Bucculatrix maritima
Stainton, 1851

Bucculatrix maritima is a species of moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in most of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), Russia and Japan (the islands of Hokkaido and Honshu). [1] It was first described in 1851 by Henry Tibbats Stainton.

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The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The head is pale greyish-ochreous, centre sometimes fuscous. Forewings are light greyish-ochreous, more or less irrorated with fuscous; a short median streak from base, pairs of costal and dorsal undefined spots before middle and at 3/4 whitish, often very indistinct; plical and second discal stigmata minute, black. Hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is pale greyish-green; dorsal line darker, head yellowish; segment 2 yellowish-grey, blackish- dotted. [2]

Adults are on wing in June and again in August. There are two generations per year.

The larvae feed on sea aster ( Aster tripolium ). They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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References

  1. A revision of the Japanese species of the family Bucculatricidae (Lepidoptera)
  2. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description