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A Bucculatrix montana in Prince George's Co., Maryland (6/13/2010).
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Source: Wikipedia
Bucculatrix montana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Bucculatricidae |
Genus: | Bucculatrix |
Species: | B. montana
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Binomial name | |
Bucculatrix montana |
Bucculatrix montana, the mountain bucculatrix,[2] is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Annette Frances Braun in 1920 and is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Ontario, Nova Scotia, Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Georgia. It is known to use sweet gale as its host plant.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ mothphotographersgroup
- ^ a b Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 32. ISBN 9780547238487.