Bucculatrix niveella

Bucculatrix niveella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Bucculatricidae
Genus:	Bucculatrix
Species:	B. niveella
Binomial name
	Bucculatrix niveella; Chambers, 1875

Bucculatrix niveella is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas and Maine. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1875.

The forewings are snow white, very faintly tinged with yellowish on the front of the tuft and in the apical part, with a few scattered brown scales in the costal cilia and two distinct dark brown hinder marginal lines in the dorsal cilia.^[2] Adults have been recorded on wing from June to August.

References[]

^ "Moth Photographers Group – Bucculatrix niveella – 0491". mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
^ "Full text of "Memoirs of the American Entomological Society" – The genus Bucculatrix in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera)". archive.org. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

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[msstate-1] "Moth Photographers Group – Bucculatrix niveella – 0491". mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[archive-2] "Full text of "Memoirs of the American Entomological Society" – The genus Bucculatrix in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera)". archive.org. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

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