Bucculatrix platyphylla

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Bucculatrix platyphylla
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. platyphylla
Binomial name
Bucculatrix platyphylla
Braun, 1963[1]

Bucculatrix platyphylla is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Annette Frances Braun in 1963 and is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New York.

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are pale straw-colour, the marks formed by ocherous brown-tipped scales. The hindwings are pale greyish ocherous, somewhat irrorated.[2]

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