Bucculatrix coronatella

Bucculatrix coronatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species: B. coronatella
Binomial name
Bucculatrix coronatella
Clemens, 1860[1]

Bucculatrix coronatella is a moth in the Bucculatricidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington D.C. and West Virginia.

The wingspan is 7.5–8 mm. The forewings are uniform orange-ocherous or sometimes brownish. The hindwings are grey or pale reddish fuscous. Adults have been recorded on wing from April to September.

The larvae feed on Betula nigra. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is thread-like and irregularly winding. It is filled with blackish frass. Older larvae live freely, feeding on the underside of the leaf. Mature larvae are pale green with a reddish tinge. Pupation takes place in a pale to brownish ocherous cocoon.[2]

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