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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 II (aster and mint leafminers) (Bucculatrix Section II (aster and mint leafminers)) » Bucculatrix speciosa - Hodges#0527 (Bucculatrix speciosa)
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moth - Bucculatrix speciosa
Copyright © 2014 Ilona L.

moth - Bucculatrix speciosa
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
May 15, 2011
Size: ~4mm
Gracillariidae family?

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moth - Bucculatrix speciosa moth - Bucculatrix speciosa
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 8 March, 2014 - 9:56pm
Last updated 5 February, 2018 - 2:09pm

Moved to Bucculatrix speciosa
Moved from Bucculatrix.

Tentative ID.
… Steve Nanz, 5 February, 2018 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Ilona L., 12 March, 2014 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

Bucculatrix
This is something in Bucculatrix (Bucculatricidae). Possibilities include locuples, callistricha, and sexnotata, but Braun's (1963) descriptions of those three spp. don't really match this moth.
… Terry Harrison, 12 March, 2014 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Bucculatrix speciosa?
This matches Braun's description here somewhat well as well as Jim Vargo's specimen at MPG. Ilona's other image here looks nearly perfect.

I would add the species page but do not know where to place it. Braun notes that it feeds on Solidago and the female genitalia and wing markings are similar to sexnotata.
… Steve Nanz, 22 January, 2018 - 4:35am login or register to post comments

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