| Bucculatrix maritima | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Bucculatricidae |
| Genus: | Bucculatrix |
| Species: | B. maritima
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| Binomial name | |
| Bucculatrix maritima
Stainton, 1851
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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.
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.
Gallery
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Mined leaf of Aster tripolium -
Larva
References
- ^ A revision of the Japanese species of the family Bucculatricidae (Lepidoptera)
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^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
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