Bucculatrix cerina Braun 1963

Bucculatrix cerina new species i Figs. 216. 216a. 216b. I
Face stramineous, tuft stramineous, on vertex with mingled ocherous and brown hairs; eye-caps and antennal stalk stramineous, the stalk with pale brown annulations. Thorax stramineous, shaded with ocherous. Fore wings pale stramineous, with a decided yellowish cast and lightly dusted with ocherous-tipped scales; markings formed by ocherous oblique transverse bands, in which some of the scales are brown-tipped; the first of these lies almost at base, the second arises before the middle of costa and bears on its inner margin on the fold a small patch of brown raised scales, the third passes across the wing from threefifths of costa to tornus; separating the third ocherous oblique band from the ocherous apical area is an oblique band of ground color from costa to termen. extreme apex pale; cilia stramineous, with irregularly projecting ocherous scales but without defined ciliary line. Hind wings and cilia pale stramineous. Legs and underside of body pale stramineous, abdomen above faintly fuscous shaded.
Alar expanse 5.5 mm.
Male genitalia (figs. 216, 216a, 216b). Harpes in general typical of the section, but modified in shape, basally broad with heavy setae, contracting at middle, thence slender and parallel-sided, with shorter fine setae; socii small, narrowly oval, sparingly setose, their tips convergent: anellus broad, inverted bowl-shaped; aedeagus typical of the section, tapering to the acute apex; vinculum broad, evenly rounded. Scale sac (fig. 216b) very elongate, scales very long and slender.
Type. — <? , Siesta Key, Sarasota County. Florida, January 5, 1951 (C. P. Kimball) [A.X.S.P.. Type Xo. 7816].
Paratype. — S, Key Yaca. Monroe County. Florida. XI.13.1952 ( C. P. Kimball) [A.X.S.P.].
Food plant and early stages unknown.
Although neither type nor paratype is in perfect condition, the yellow aspect of this species is characteristic. In genitalia, B. cerina is distinct from all other described species.

Bucculatrix cerina is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida. It was first described in 1963 by Annette Frances Braun.

Adults have been recorded on wing in January and November.