''Bucculatrix pectinifera'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
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 is found in the
Jewish Autonomous Oblast of
Russia
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.
[ 2007: Two new Palaearctic species of the genus ''Bucculatrix'' (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae). ''Zoosystematica Rossica'' 16(2): 285-288.] The species was described in 2007 by Svetlana Vladimirovna Baryshnikova.
References
Bucculatricidae
Moths described in 2007
Moths of Asia
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