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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths (Bucculatricidae) » Bucculatrix » Section IV (oak and birch family leafminers) (Bucculatrix Section IV (oak and birch family leafminers)) » Oak-ribbed Skeletonizer - Hodges#0550 (Bucculatrix albertiella)

Species Bucculatrix albertiella - Oak-ribbed Skeletonizer - Hodges#0550

Oak-ribbed Skeletonizer Moth - Bucculatrix albertiella - Bucculatrix albertiella

Oak Ribbed Skeletonizer Cocoon - Bucculatrix albertiella

Oak Ribbed Skeletonizer Larva - Bucculatrix albertiella

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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 IV (oak and birch family leafminers))

Species albertiella (Oak-ribbed Skeletonizer - Hodges#0550)

Hodges Number

0550

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Bucculatrix albertiella Busck, 1910 (1), (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 016125

Size

Wingspan 8 mm. (2)

Identification

Original description is online in PDF. (1)

Range

California to Washington. (2), (3)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Coastal valleys in close association with Querus agrifolia Née (California live oak) (2)

Season

Most records are from February through October. (3)

Food

Larval host is Querus agrifolia (California live oak) (2)

Print References

Powell, J.A., and P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 4.10f, 4.11m; p. 57.(4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	New Microlepidoptera from New Mexico and California and a synoptic table of the North American species of Heliodines (Stainton) August Busck. 1910. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 11: 175-188.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Tony on 29 September, 2006 - 4:29am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M., Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 March, 2013 - 3:28pm

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