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Digital Guide to Moth Identification

North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library

Bucculatricidae 330069 – 0549 – Bucculatrix packardella Chambers, 1873

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Barcode of Life (BOLD) 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

Adult - © Tom Murray - Genitalia - © Anthony W. Thomas Higher resolution Genitalia Plate with EXIF and collection data at Tom Murray's PBase Gallery.

- © 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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