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Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
s. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae

Lyonetiidae is a family of moths. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed Glossary of Lepidopteran terms#Wings noticeably up- or down-turned....
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Adults of this family are easily overlooked, being very small with narrow wings wrapped around the body at rest. When small, the larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e are leaf-miners, forming distinctive brown blotches on leaves. When larger, they usually feed on the leaves externally.






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Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
s. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae

Lyonetiidae is a family of moths. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed Glossary of Lepidopteran terms#Wings noticeably up- or down-turned....
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Adults of this family are easily overlooked, being very small with narrow wings wrapped around the body at rest. When small, the larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e are leaf-miners, forming distinctive brown blotches on leaves. When larger, they usually feed on the leaves externally. Many species have specific host plants. The pupa
Pupa

A pupa is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation. The pupal stage is found only in Holometabolism insects, those that undergo a complete metamorphosis, going through four life stages; embryo, larva, pupa and imago....
l cases have distinctive longitudinal ridges, leading to members of the family commonly being called ribbed cocoon makers.

Most authors recognize just a single large genus, Bucculatrix, although two Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n species, Cryphioxena notosema and the Scribbly Gum Moth
Scribbly gum

Scribbly gum is an Australian eucalypt that is named after the 'scribbles' on its bark. These zigzag tracks are tunnels made by the larvae of the Scribbly Gum Moth and follow the insect's life cycle....
, Ogmograptis scribula are sometimes placed in this family rather than in Elachistidae
Elachistidae

The Elachistidae are a family of Lepidoptera .Larvae have a wide variety of habits including leaf tiers, seed borers, and leaf or stem miners....
.

Species


Species include:

  • B. absinthii
Food plant: Artemisia
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. acrogramma
  • B. adelpha
  • B. agilis
Food plant: Acacia horrida
Acacia

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Sweden botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1773....
  • B. agnella
Food plant: Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Common Ragweed is the most widespread plant of the genus Ragweed in North America. It is also known as Annual Ragweed, Bitterweed, Blackweed, Carrot Weed, Hay Fever Weed, Roman Wormwood, Stammerwort, Stickweed, Tassel Weed, Wild Tansy and American Wormwood....
  • B. ainsliella
Food plant: Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. alaternella
Food plant: Rhamnus alaternus
Buckthorn

The Buckthorns are a genus of about 100 species of shrubs or small trees from 1-10 m tall , in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. They are native throughout the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, and also more locally in the subtropical Southern Hemisphere in parts of Africa and South America....
  • B. albaciliella
  • B. albedinella
Food plant: Ulmus
Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. Elms first appeared in the Miocene period about 40 million years ago....
  • B. albella
Food plant: Paliurus spina-christi
Paliurus spina-christi

Paliurus spina-christi, commonly known as Jerusalem Thorn, Garland Thorn, Christ's Thorn, or Crown of Thorns, is a species of Paliurus native to the Mediterranean region and southwest and central Asia, from Morocco and Spain east to Iran and Tajikistan....
  • B. albertiella
Food plant: Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. albiguttella
Food plant: Achillea
Achillea

Achillea is a genus of about 85 flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae, commonly referred to as yarrow. They occur in Europe and temperate areas of Asia....
  • B. alpina
  • B. ambrosiaefoliella
Recorded food plants: Ambrosia
Ragweed

Ragweeds , also called bitterweeds and bloodweeds, are a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family .The scientific name of this genus is sometimes claimed to be derived from the Ancient Greek term for the perfumed nourishment of the gods, ambrosia which would be ironic since the genus is best known for one fact:...
, Parthenium hysterophorus
Parthenium

Parthenium is a genus in the family Asteraceae. Notable species in this genus include the Guayule. Native to tropical Americas, Parthenium is an aggressive weed invading all disturbed land, including farms, pastures, and roadsides....
  • B. amiculella
Food plant: Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. anaticula
Food plant: Ceanothus americanus
Ceanothus

Ceanothus Carolus Linnaeus is a genus of about 50?60 species of shrubs or small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The genus is confined to North America, the center of its distribution in California, with some species in the eastern United States and southeast Canada, and others extending as far south as Guatemala....
  • B. andalusica
Food plant: Artemisia
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. angustata
Food plants: Aster, Erigeron
Erigeron

Erigeron is a genus of about 390 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest species diversity in North America, where 173 species occur....
, Solidago
Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae....
  • B. angustisquamella
  • B. anthemidella
Food plant: Anthemis tinctoria
Anthemis tinctoria

Anthemis tinctoria, or Golden Marguerite and Yellow Chamomile, is a species in the genus Anthemis of the Sunflower family ....
  • B. argentisignella
Food plant: Leucanthemum vulgare
  • B. armeniaca
  • B. arnicella
Food plants: Arnica cordifolia
Arnica

Arnica is a genus with about 30 perennial plant, herbaceous species, belonging to the sunflower family . The genus name Arnica may be derived from the Greek language arna, "lamb", in reference to the soft, hairy leaves....
, Artemisia tridentata
Sagebrush

Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby species in the genus Artemisia native to North America*Artemisia arbuscula ? Little Sagebrush, Low Sagebrush...
  • B. artemisiella
Food plant: Artemisia
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. aspyctella
  • B. atagina
Food plant: Artemisia campestris
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. atrosignata
  • B. bechsteinella
Food plants: Crataegus
Crataegus

Hawthorn is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America....
, Cydonia oblonga
Quince

The Quince , or Cydonia oblonga, is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region....
, Malus
Malus

Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30?35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called ....
, Pyrus
Pear

The pear is an edible pome fruit produced by a tree of genus Pyrus . The pear is classified within Maloideae, a subfamily within Rosaceae. The apple , which it resembles in floral structure, is also a member of this subfamily....
, Sorbus
Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of about 100?200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and Sorbus aucuparia....
  • B. benacicolella
Food plant: Artemisia alba
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. benenotata
  • B. bicolorella
  • B. bicristata
  • B. brunnescens
  • B. callistricha
Food plant: Corylus
Hazel

The hazels are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels into a separate family Corylaceae.Hazel plants prefer a nice warm, mild,moist climate nothing more nothing less....
  • B. canadensisella
Food plant: Betula
Birch

Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae....
  • B. canariensis
Food plant: Artemisia canariensis
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. cantabricella
Food plant: Convolvulus cantabricus
Bindweed

Bindweed may refer to* Convolvulus, a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants* Calystegia, a related genus of about 25 species of flowering plants...
  • B. capreella
Food plant: Achillea millefolium
Yarrow

Achillea millefolium or Yarrow is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere....
  • B. caribbea
Food plant: Cordia
Cordia

This article is about the shrub. For the automobile, see Mitsubishi Cordia.File:Fragrantmanjackjar.jpgCordia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the borage family Boraginaceae....
  • B. carolinae
  • B. caspica
  • B. ceanothiella
Food plant: Ceanothus
Ceanothus

Ceanothus Carolus Linnaeus is a genus of about 50?60 species of shrubs or small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The genus is confined to North America, the center of its distribution in California, with some species in the eastern United States and southeast Canada, and others extending as far south as Guatemala....
  • B. ceibae
Food plant: Ceiba
Ceiba

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America and South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia....
  • B. centaureae
Food plant: Centaurea triniifolia
Centaurea

Centaurea is a genus of at least some 350, if not 500 to 600 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Although the genus' distribution is Holarctic, most are native to the Palaearctic, where the Middle East and surrounding regions are particular species-rich....
  • B. centroptila
Food plant: Firmiana colorata
Firmiana

Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It contains 12 or more the following species, including* Firmiana hainanensis...
  • B. cerina
Food plant: Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. chrysanthemella
Food plants: Argyranthemum frutescens
Argyranthemum

Argyranthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus are sometimes also placed in the genus Chrysanthemum....
, Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums, often called 'mums', are a genus of about 30 species of perennial plant flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe....
, Gonospermum
  • B. cidarella
Food plants: Alnus
Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of Plant sexuality trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the New World also along the Andes southwards to Argentina....
, Myrica gale
Myrica gale

Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica, native to northern and western Europe and parts of northern North America....
  • B. clavenae
Food plant: Achillea millefolium
Yarrow

Achillea millefolium or Yarrow is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere....
  • B. columbiana
Food plant: Iva axillaris
  • B. coniforma
  • B. copeuta
Food plant: Prunus pensylvanica
Prunus

Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, including the plums, cherry, peaches, apricots and almonds. It is traditionally placed within the rose family Rosaceae as a subfamily, the Prunoideae , but sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae ....
  • B. cordiaella
Food plant: Cordia
Cordia

This article is about the shrub. For the automobile, see Mitsubishi Cordia.File:Fragrantmanjackjar.jpgCordia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the borage family Boraginaceae....
  • B. coronatella
Food plant: Betula
Birch

Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae....
  • B. crataegi
Food plants: Crataegus
Crataegus

Hawthorn is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America....
, Pyrus
Pear

The pear is an edible pome fruit produced by a tree of genus Pyrus . The pear is classified within Maloideae, a subfamily within Rosaceae. The apple , which it resembles in floral structure, is also a member of this subfamily....
  • B. crateracma
Food plant: Bombax ceiba
Bombax ceiba

Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. This tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter....
  • B. cretica
  • B. cristatella
Food plant: Achillea millefolium
Yarrow

Achillea millefolium or Yarrow is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere....
  • B. criticopa
  • B. cuneigera
Food plant: Aster shortii
  • B. demaryella
Food plants: Acer
Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as Maple. Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or included in the family Sapindaceae....
, Betula
Birch

Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae....
, Castanea
Castanea

Castanea can mean* the genus of the chestnuts and chinkapins* Castanea, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Castanea Township, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the CDP of the same name...
, Corylus
Hazel

The hazels are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels into a separate family Corylaceae.Hazel plants prefer a nice warm, mild,moist climate nothing more nothing less....
  • B. diffusella
Food plant: Artemisia maritima
Artemisia maritima

Artemisia maritima is a species of Artemisia known as sea wormwood and old woman. In its many variations of form it has an extremely wide distribution in the northern hemisphere of the Old World, occurring mostly in saltish soils....
  • B. disjuncta
  • B. divisa
Food plant: Balsamorhiza sagittata
Balsamorhiza

Balsamorhiza is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae known commonly as balsamroots. These are perennials with fleshy taproots and Caudex bearing erect stems and large, basal leaves....
  • B. domicola
Food plant: Quercus palustris
Pin oak

The Pin oak or Swamp Spanish oak is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae section Quercus sect. Lobatae....
  • B. dominatrix
Food plant: Baccharis pilularis
Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennial plant and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true broom s....
  • B. eclecta
Food plant: Ulmus pumila
Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. Elms first appeared in the Miocene period about 40 million years ago....
  • B. enceliae
Food plant: Encelia farinosa
Encelia farinosa

Encelia farinosa, or Brittlebush, is a common desert shrub of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Its common name comes from the brittleness of its Plant stem....
  • B. epibathra
Food plant: Grewia tiliaefolia
Grewia

The large flowering plant genus Grewia is today placed by most authors in the mallow family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group....
  • B. ericameriae
Food plant: Ericameria arborescens
Ericameria

Ericameria is a genus of shrubs in the Asteraceae known by the common names rabbitbrush and goldenbush. These are deciduous shrubs similar to sagebrush with a native range in the arid western United States and Mexico....
  • B. errans
Food plant: Aster
  • B. eucalypti
Food plant: Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
  • B. eugrapha
  • B. eupatoriella
Food plant: Eupatorium perfoliatum
Eupatorium

Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants, containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.5?3 m tall....
  • B. eurotiella
Food plants: Krascheninnikovia lanata
Krascheninnikovia

Krascheninnikovia is a genus of flowering plants in the Amaranthaceae known generally as winterfat. They are known from Eurasia and western North America....
, Senecio
Senecio

Senecio is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters....
  • B. evanescens
  • B. exedra
Food plant: Firmiana platanifolia
Firmiana

Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It contains 12 or more the following species, including* Firmiana hainanensis...
  • B. fatigatella
Food plants: Artemisia campestris
Artemisia

Artemisia can mean:Botany*Artemisia , a genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwoodGeography*Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park...
, Leucanthemopsis alpina
  • B. firmianella
Food plant: Firmiana
Firmiana

Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It contains 12 or more the following species, including* Firmiana hainanensis...
  • B. flexuosa
Food plant: Acacia nilotica
Acacia

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Sweden botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1773....
  • B. floccosa
  • B. flourensiae
Food plant: Flourensia cernua
  • B. formosa
  • B. frangutella
Food plant: Rhamnus
Buckthorn

The Buckthorns are a genus of about 100 species of shrubs or small trees from 1-10 m tall , in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. They are native throughout the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, and also more locally in the subtropical Southern Hemisphere in parts of Africa and South America....
  • B. franseriae
Food plant: Ambrosia deltoidea
Ragweed

Ragweeds , also called bitterweeds and bloodweeds, are a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family .The scientific name of this genus is sometimes claimed to be derived from the Ancient Greek term for the perfumed nourishment of the gods, ambrosia which would be ironic since the genus is best known for one fact:...
  • B. frigida
  • B. fugitans
Food plant: Corylus
Hazel

The hazels are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels into a separate family Corylaceae.Hazel plants prefer a nice warm, mild,moist climate nothing more nothing less....
  • B. fusicola
Food plant: Helianthus
Helianthus

The Helianthus Carolus Linnaeus genus comprises 67 species and several subspecies in the Asteraceae family, all of which are native to North America, with some species ...
  • B. gnaphaliella
Food plant: Helichrysum arenarium
Helichrysum arenarium

Helichrysum arenarium is also known as dwarf everlast. It grows to be an average of 0.3 m tall. An infusion of the bright yellow flowers is used in the treatment of gall bladder disorders and as a diuretic in treating rheumatism and cystitis....
  • B. gossypiella
Food plant: Gossypium
  • B. gossypii
Food plant: Gossypium
  • B. helianthemi
Food plant: Helianthemum sessiliflorum
Helianthemum

Helianthemum is a genus of about 110 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen subshrubs. They are widely distributed in the Americas, Europe, and from North Africa to Asia Minor and Central Asia, with the centre of diversity in the Mediterranean region....
  • B. helichrysella
Food plant: Helichrysum italicum
  • B. herbalbella
Food plant: Artemisia herba-alba
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. humiliella
  • B. ilecella
Food plant: Ilex
Holly

Holly is a genus of approximately 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family....
  • B. illecebrosa
Food plant: Helianthus
Helianthus

The Helianthus Carolus Linnaeus genus comprises 67 species and several subspecies in the Asteraceae family, all of which are native to North America, with some species ...
  • B. immaculatella
  • B. improvisa
Food plant: Tilia americana
Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of Tilia, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Texas, and southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska....
  • B. infans
  • B. insolita
  • B. inusitata
Food plant: Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis

Juniperus communis, the Common Juniper, is a species in the genus Juniperus, in the family Cupressaceae. It has the largest range of any woody plant, throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic south in mountains to around 30?N latitude in North America, Europe and Asia....
  • B. ivella
Food plants: Baccharis
Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennial plant and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true broom s....
, Iva frutescens
  • B. jugicola
Food plants: Achillea oxyloba
Achillea

Achillea is a genus of about 85 flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae, commonly referred to as yarrow. They occur in Europe and temperate areas of Asia....
, Leucanthemopsis alpina
  • B. kendalli
Food plant: Colubrina texensis
Colubrina

Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands....
  • B. kimballi
  • B. koebelella
Food plant: Artemisia californica
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. laciniatella
Food plant: Artemisia laciniata
Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 to 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. It comprises hardy herbs and shrubs known for their volatile oils....
  • B. lassella
  • B. latella
  • B. latviaella
  • B. lavaterella
Food plant: Lavatera
Lavatera

Lavatera is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Asia, and Australia....
  • B. leptalea
Food plant: Artemisia dracunculus
Tarragon

Tarragon or dragon's-wort is a perennial plant herb in the family Asteraceae related to Artemisia . Corresponding to its species name, a common term for the plant is "dragon herb." It is native to a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere from easternmost Europe across central and eastern Asia to India, western North America, and south to...
  • B. leucanthemella
Food plants: Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums, often called 'mums', are a genus of about 30 species of perennial plant flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe....
, Leucanthemum
Leucanthemum

Leucanthemum is a genus of about 70 flowering plants from the sunflower family . The name Leucanthemum derives from the Greek words leukos, "white," and anthemon, "flower"....
, Staehelina dubia
  • B. litigiosella
Food plant: Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. locuples
Food plant: Alnus serrulata
Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of Plant sexuality trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the New World also along the Andes southwards to Argentina....
  • B. longula
Food plant: Helianthus annuus
Sunflower

The sunflower is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae and native to the Americas, with a large flowering head . The stem can grow as high as 3 meters , and the flower head can reach 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds....
  • B. loxoptila
Food plant: Gossypium
  • B. luteella
Food plant: Quercus alba
White oak

Quercus alba, the White Oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas....
  • B. magnella
Food plant: Solidago
Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae....
  • B. maritima
Food plant: Aster tripolium
  • B. mehadiensis
  • B. mendax
Food plant: Dalbergia sissoo
Dalbergia

Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central America and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia....
  • B. mesoporphyra
  • B. micropunctata
  • B. montana
  • B. myricae
Food plant: Myrica gale
Myrica gale

Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica, native to northern and western Europe and parts of northern North America....
  • B. needhami
Food plant: Helianthus
Helianthus

The Helianthus Carolus Linnaeus genus comprises 67 species and several subspecies in the Asteraceae family, all of which are native to North America, with some species ...
  • B. nigricomella
Food plant: Leucanthemum vulgare
  • B. nigripunctella
  • B. niveella
Food plant: Solidago
Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae....
  • B. noltei
Food plant: Artemisia vulgaris
  • B. ochristrigella
  • B. ochrisuffusa
Food plant: Quercus alba
White oak

Quercus alba, the White Oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas....
  • B. ochritincta
  • B. orophilella
  • B. packardella
Food plants: Fagus
Beech

Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe and North America.The leaf of beech trees are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5–15 cm long and 4–10 cm broad....
, Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
  • B. paliuricola
Food plant: Paliurus
Paliurus

Paliurus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae. The eight species are native to warm, dry regions of Eurasia and North Africa from Morocco and Spain east to Japan and Taiwan....
  • B. pallidula
  • B. pannonica
Food plant: Artemisia maritima
Artemisia

Artemisia can mean:Botany*Artemisia , a genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwoodGeography*Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park...
  • B. paroptila
Food plants: Comptonia peregrina
Comptonia

Comptonia is a monotypic genus in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. It is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota....
, Myrica gale
Myrica gale

Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica, native to northern and western Europe and parts of northern North America....
  • B. parthenica
Food plant: Parthenium hysterophorus
Parthenium

Parthenium is a genus in the family Asteraceae. Notable species in this genus include the Guayule. Native to tropical Americas, Parthenium is an aggressive weed invading all disturbed land, including farms, pastures, and roadsides....
  • B. parvinotata
  • B. perficta
  • B. phagnalella
Food plant: Phagnalon saxatile
  • B. platyphylla
  • B. plucheae
Food plant: Pluchea odorata
Pluchea

Pluchea is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely "fleabanes"....
  • B. polymniae
Food plant: Smallanthus uvedalius
  • B. polytita
  • B. pomifoliella
Food plants: Ambrosia
Ragweed

Ragweeds , also called bitterweeds and bloodweeds, are a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family .The scientific name of this genus is sometimes claimed to be derived from the Ancient Greek term for the perfumed nourishment of the gods, ambrosia which would be ironic since the genus is best known for one fact:...
, Amelanchier laevis
Serviceberry

Amelanchier, also known as shadbush, serviceberry, sarvisberry, juneberry, Saskatoon, shadblow, shadwood, sugarplum, and wild-plum, is a genus of about 20 species of shrubs and small deciduous trees in the Rosaceae ....
, Chaenomeles japonica
Chaenomeles

Chaenomeles is a genus of three species of deciduous spiny shrubs, usually 1?3 m tall, in the family Rosaceae. They are native to eastern Asia in Japan, China and Korea....
, Crataegus
Crataegus

Hawthorn is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America....
, Cydonia oblonga
Quince

The Quince , or Cydonia oblonga, is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region....
, Malus
Malus

Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30?35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called ....
, Prunus
Prunus

Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, including the plums, cherry, peaches, apricots and almonds. It is traditionally placed within the rose family Rosaceae as a subfamily, the Prunoideae , but sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae ....
, Pyrus
Pear

The pear is an edible pome fruit produced by a tree of genus Pyrus . The pear is classified within Maloideae, a subfamily within Rosaceae. The apple , which it resembles in floral structure, is also a member of this subfamily....
  • B. pseudosylvella
Food plant: Rhamnus saxatilis
Buckthorn

The Buckthorns are a genus of about 100 species of shrubs or small trees from 1-10 m tall , in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. They are native throughout the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, and also more locally in the subtropical Southern Hemisphere in parts of Africa and South America....
  • B. ptochastis
  • B. pyrivorella
Food plants: Pisum sativum
Pea

A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the legume Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Although treated as a vegetable in cooking, it is botanically a fruit....
, Pyrus
Pear

The pear is an edible pome fruit produced by a tree of genus Pyrus . The pear is classified within Maloideae, a subfamily within Rosaceae. The apple , which it resembles in floral structure, is also a member of this subfamily....
  • B. quadrigemina
Food plants: Alcea
Hollyhock

The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia....
, Althaea
Althaea (genus)

Althaea is a genus of 6-12 species of perennial plant herbs, including the Althaea officinalis plant whence marshmallow got its name, native to Europe and western Asia....
  • B. quinquenotella
Food plants: Ampelopsis
Ampelopsis

Ampelopsis is a genus of climbing shrubs, in the grape family Vitaceae. The name is derived from the Greek word ampelos, which means "vine"....
, Quercus rubra
Northern Red Oak

The Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak, Quercus rubra , is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group . It is a native of North America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada....
  • B. ratisbonensis
Food plant: Artemisia campestris
Artemisia

Artemisia can mean:Botany*Artemisia , a genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwoodGeography*Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park...
  • B. recognita
Food plant: Quercus macrocarpa
Bur oak

The Bur Oak, , sometimes spelled Burr Oak, is a species of oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus Quercus sect. Quercus, native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada....
  • B. regaella
Food plant: Helianthemum sessiliflorum
Helianthemum

Helianthemum is a genus of about 110 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen subshrubs. They are widely distributed in the Americas, Europe, and from North Africa to Asia Minor and Central Asia, with the centre of diversity in the Mediterranean region....
  • B. rhamniella
Food plant: Rhamnus
Buckthorn

The Buckthorns are a genus of about 100 species of shrubs or small trees from 1-10 m tall , in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. They are native throughout the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, and also more locally in the subtropical Southern Hemisphere in parts of Africa and South America....
  • B. ruficoma
Food plants: Gossypium, Ipomoea batatas
Sweet potato

The 'sweet potato' is a dicotyledonous plant which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Amongst the approximately 50 genera and more than 1000 species of this family, only I....
  • B. salutatoria
Food plant: Artemisia tridentata
Sagebrush

Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby species in the genus Artemisia native to North America*Artemisia arbuscula ? Little Sagebrush, Low Sagebrush...
  • B. santolinella
Food plant: Santolina chamaecyparissus
Santolina

Santolina is a genus of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. Between five and 24 species are accepted by different authorities....
  • B. seneciensis
Food plant: Senecio
Senecio

Senecio is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters....
  • B. seorsa
Food plant: Artemisia tridentata
Sagebrush

Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby species in the genus Artemisia native to North America*Artemisia arbuscula ? Little Sagebrush, Low Sagebrush...
  • B. seperabilis
Food plant: Baccharis pilularis
Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennial plant and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true broom s....
  • B. sexnotata
Food plant: Aster
  • B. simulans
Food plant: Helianthus annuus
Sunflower

The sunflower is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae and native to the Americas, with a large flowering head . The stem can grow as high as 3 meters , and the flower head can reach 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds....
  • B. solidaginiella
Food plant: Solidago
Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae....
  • B. sororcula
  • B. speciosa
Food plant: Solidago
Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae....
  • B. spectabilis
  • B. sphaeralceae
  • B. sporobolella
Food plant: Sporobolus airoides
Sporobolus

Sporobolus is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. They are usually called dropseed grasses or sacaton grasses. They are typical prairie and savanna plants, but occur in other open habitat in warmer climates also....
  • B. staintonella
Food plant: Populus
Poplar

Populus is a genus of between 25?35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere....
  • B. subnitens
  • B. taeniola
Food plant: Salvia apiana
White sage

Salvia apiana, also known as white sage, bee sage, or sacred sage, is an evergreen Perennial plant shrub of the genus Salvia, the sages....
  • B. telavivella
  • B. tenebricosa
  • B. tetradymiae
Food plant: Tetradymia axillaris
  • B. thoracella
Food plants: Acer
Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as Maple. Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or included in the family Sapindaceae....
, Tilia
Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, in Asia , Europe and eastern North America; it is not native to western North America....
  • B. thurberiella
Food plants: Cienfuegosia thespesioides, Gossypium
  • B. transversata
Food plant: Ambrosia psilostachya
Ragweed

Ragweeds , also called bitterweeds and bloodweeds, are a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family .The scientific name of this genus is sometimes claimed to be derived from the Ancient Greek term for the perfumed nourishment of the gods, ambrosia which would be ironic since the genus is best known for one fact:...
  • B. tridenticola
Food plant: Artemisia tridentata
Sagebrush

Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby species in the genus Artemisia native to North America*Artemisia arbuscula ? Little Sagebrush, Low Sagebrush...
  • B. trifasciella
Food plants: Castanea
Castanea

Castanea can mean* the genus of the chestnuts and chinkapins* Castanea, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Castanea Township, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the CDP of the same name...
, Quercus rubra
Northern Red Oak

The Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak, Quercus rubra , is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group . It is a native of North America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada....
  • B. turatii
Food plant: Paliurus aculeatus
Paliurus

Paliurus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae. The eight species are native to warm, dry regions of Eurasia and North Africa from Morocco and Spain east to Japan and Taiwan....
  • B. ulmella
Food plants: Pinus sylvestris
Scots Pine

The Scots Pine is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Ireland, Great Britain and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as S?pmi ....
, Quercus
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
, Sorbus
Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of about 100?200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and Sorbus aucuparia....
, Ulmus
Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. Elms first appeared in the Miocene period about 40 million years ago....
  • B. ulmicola
  • B. ulmifoliae
Food plant: Ulmus
Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. Elms first appeared in the Miocene period about 40 million years ago....
  • B. ulocarena
  • B. univoca
Food plant: Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica

Ipomoea aquatica is a semi-aquatic plant tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable. Its precise natural distribution is unknown due to extensive cultivation, with the species found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world....
  • B. variabilis
Food plants: Tidestromia
Tidestromia

Tidestromia is a genus with about seven species of annual or subshrub perennial plants native to desert and semi-arid regions of the western United States, Mexico and tropical America in the family Amaranthaceae....
, Baccharis pilularis
Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennial plant and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true broom s....
  • B. verax
Food plant: Trewia nudiflora
Trewia

Trewia is a plant genus of the spurge family , comprising 2 species. It is found from the Himalaya to Hainan. These species have hard large fruits....
  • B. viguierae
Food plant: Heliomeris longifolia
Heliomeris

Heliomeris is a small genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae known generally as false goldeneyes. These are annual and perennial herbs producing sunflower-like radiate Head ....
  • B. xenaula
Food plant: Sterculia
Sterculia

Sterculia is a genus colloquially termed the tropical chestnuts.Sterculia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the leaf-miner Bucculatricidae, which feeds exclusively on the genus....
  • B. zizyphella
Food plant: Ziziphus
Ziziphus

Ziziphus is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world....
  • B. zophopasta
Food plant: Quercus garryana


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