Bucculatrix thurberiella

Bucculatrix thurberiella
on Gossypium thurberi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. thurberiella
Binomial name
Bucculatrix thurberiella
Busck, 1914

Bucculatrix thurberiella, the cotton leaf perforator, is a species of moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It was first described by August Busck in 1914. It is native to the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.

The wingspan is 7–9 mm.[1][2]

The larvae feed on Gossypium tomentosum and Thurberia thespesioides. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Braun, Annette F. (1963). The Genus Bucculatrix in America North of Mexico (Microlepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society Number 18. American Entomological Society.
  2. ^ Nicholls, Charles Jonathan (1999). Reproductive biology of butterflies and moths (Thesis).

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