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Digital Guide to Moth Identification

North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library
Bucculatricidae
3300690549Bucculatrix packardella Chambers, 1873
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Identifications often erroneous; DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; many specimens not sequenced.
  • Braun, A.F., 1963. The genus Bucculatrix in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 18: 129.
  • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
  • Species Page at Mass Moths
  • Species Page at iNaturalist

Bucculatrix packardella
Adult - © Tom Murray -
Genitalia - © Anthony W. Thomas

Higher resolution Genitalia Plate with EXIF and collection data at Tom Murray's PBase Gallery.

Bucculatrix packardella
- © JoAnne Russo

On the intersegmental membrane ventral to ostium, an arch of dark specialized scales, the scale-mass densest and broadest laterally, in mid-ventral line slightly emarginate; a small sclerotized plate posterior to ostium; ductus bursae long, with sclerotized strips bearing scattered teeth (Braun, 1963)


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