Family BUCCULATRICIDAE
Compiler and date details
February 2012 - Robyn Meir with advice from Ted Edwards, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
March 2009 - Names and Introduction taken from Nielsen et al. (1996), with minor updating by ABRS.
Introduction
After Nielsen & Edwards (1996), with minor modifications.
'This small family has not been subject to taxonomic study in Australia. The North American fauna was reviewed by Braun (1963) and that of the British Isles by Emmet (1985a).
The family included only the genus Bucculatrix with a separate subgenus, Leucoedemia Scoble & Scholtz, for a gall-forming South African species (Scoble & Scholtz 1984) until the scribblygum moth genus Ogmograptis Meyrick was associated with the family (Nielsen & Common 1991).'
Cooke & Edwards (2007) studied the behaviour of larvae of a scribblygum moth, and a study of the genus Ogmograptis , is currently underway by Drs Max Day and Marianne Horak, CSIRO Entomology.
General References
Braun, A.F. 1963. The genus Bucculatrix in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 18: i-iii, 1-208, pls 1-45
Cooke, J. & Edwards, T. 2007. The behaviour of scribbly gum moth larvae Ogmograptis sp. Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Entomology 46(4): 269-275
Nielsen, E.S. & Common, I.F.B. 1991. Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies). pp. 817-915, pls 7, 8 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. 2 vols. Carlton : Melbourne University Press xiii + vi + 1075 pp., 8 pls
Nielsen, E.S. & Common, I.F.B. 1991. Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies). pp. 817-915, pls 7, 8 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. 2 vols. Carlton : Melbourne University Press xiii + vi + 1075 pp., 8 pls
Nielsen, E.S. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Tineoidea. pp. 33-43 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM [45]
Scoble, M.J. & Scholtz, C.H. 1984. A new, gall-feeding moth (Lyonetiidae: Bucculatricinae) from South Africa with comments on larval habits and phylogenetic relationships. Systematic Entomology 9: 83-94