Species Bucculatrix anaticula - Hodges#0574

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Redroot leaf mine, dead larva - Bucculatrix anaticula

Redroot leaf mine, upper side of leaf - Bucculatrix anaticula

Bucculatricidae molt shelters, under side of Redroot leaf - Bucculatrix anaticula

Bucculatricidae molt shelter, openX - Bucculatrix anaticula

Bucculatricidae, upper side of Redroot leaf - Bucculatrix anaticula

Bucculatricidae, weaving a cocoon - Bucculatrix anaticula

Bucculatricidae, spent pupa in cocoon - Bucculatrix anaticula

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Gracillarioidea (Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths)

Family Bucculatricidae (Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths)

Genus Bucculatrix

No Taxon (Section V (ceanothus leafminers))

Species anaticula (Bucculatrix anaticula - Hodges#0574)

Hodges Number

0574

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Bucculatrix anaticula Braun, 1963

Phylogenetic Sequence # 330094

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Ontario; mines probably made by this species have been observed in Kentucky (1)

Food

Ceanothus americanus

Remarks

The type series was reared from white cocoons with six distinct ridges (sometimes two additional, indistinct ridges). In the mines found in Kentucky, the egg was deposited on the upper side of the leaf; all parenchyma was consumed toward the end of the very fine linear mine.

Print References

Braun, Annette F. 1963. The genus Bucculatrix in America North of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 18:1-208. (1)

Works Cited

1.	The genus Bucculatrix in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera) Annette F. Braun. 1963. American Entomological Society 18: 1-208.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 January, 2015 - 7:23am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 November, 2023 - 12:23pm

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