Bucculatrix frangutella

Bucculatrix frangutella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Bucculatricidae
Genus:	Bucculatrix
Species:	B. frangutella
Binomial name
	Bucculatrix frangutella; (Goeze, 1783)

Bucculatrix frangutella is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1783. It is found in Europe.^[1]

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The head is white, sometimes fuscous-mixed in middle. Forewings are white, sometimes more or less sprinkled with fuscous; oblique costal spots before and beyond middle, a third at apex, and one on middle of dorsum brownish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous, Plical and second discal stigmata black. Hindwings are grey. The larva is pale yellowish-green, anteriorly pinkish tinged; dorsal line darker; head pale brown. Segment 2 is brown-marked above.^[2]

Adults are on wing between June and July depending on the location.

The larvae mine the leaves of buckthorns (Rhamnus species), including common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) as well as alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus).^[1]^[3]

Gallery

Mined leaf
A mined and gnawed leaf of Rhamnus frangula
Larva
Cocoon

References

^ ^a ^b Lastuvka, A., & Lastuvka, Z. (2017). New records of Lepidoptera from the Iberian Peninsula from 2016 (Insecta: Lepidoptera). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 45(178), 283-297.
^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
^ Shaw, M. R., & Sims, I. (2015). Notes on the biology, morphology, nomenclature and classification of Pseudavga flavicoxa Tobias, 1964 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rhysipolinae), a genus and species new to Britain parasitizing Bucculatrix thoracella (Thunberg)(Lepidoptera, Bucculatricidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 42, 21.

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[:0-1] Lastuvka, A., & Lastuvka, Z. (2017). New records of Lepidoptera from the Iberian Peninsula from 2016 (Insecta: Lepidoptera). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 45(178), 283-297.

[2] Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description

[3] Shaw, M. R., & Sims, I. (2015). Notes on the biology, morphology, nomenclature and classification of Pseudavga flavicoxa Tobias, 1964 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rhysipolinae), a genus and species new to Britain parasitizing Bucculatrix thoracella (Thunberg)(Lepidoptera, Bucculatricidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 42, 21.

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