''Bucculatrix notella'' is a
moth in the family
Bucculatricidae
Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moths. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae.
Adults of this family are easily overlooked, bein ...
. It was described by Svetlana Seksjaeva in 1996. It is found in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
(Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu) and the
Russian Far East.
A revision of the Japanese species of the family Bucculatricidae (Lepidoptera)
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The wingspan is 6–7 mm.
The larvae feed on ''Artemisia princeps
''Artemisia princeps'', also called Yomogi, Japanese mugwort, Korean wormwood, Korean mugwort or first wormwood in English, is an Asian plant species in the sunflower family, native to China, Japan and Korea. It is a perennial, very vigorous pla ...
''. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Bucculatricidae
Moths described in 1996
Moths of Asia
Moths of Japan
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