Bucculatrix kimballi Braun 1963

Bucculatrix kimballi new species (Figs. 114, 114a, 114b, 115. 115a.)
Face white, tuft white ; eye-caps and a few basal segments of stalk white, especially in female, stalk outwardly pale brownish gray, with faint paler annulations. Fore wings white, markings formed by fuscous or blackish-tipped scales ; sometimes a faint longitudinal streak of luteous, sometimes minutely fuscous-tipped scales from base above fold to one-third the wing length, this streak sometimes wholly absent ; a short oblique dark streak from one-third of costa is produced basad along costa to base ; a second oblique streak, broad on costa, narrows below costa and extends as a narrow line to below middle of wing thence curving upward toward apex ; toward costa this curved dark streak encloses a similarly curved white streak (sometimes obscured in the middle of the wing), which in turn encloses on costa a more or less triangular patch of luteous scales ; on middle of dorsum a semicircular patch of dark scales, bordered with black raised scales ; a minute black apical spot, and a row of black-tipped scales curving around apex in the cilia. Hind wings and cilia whitish ocherous, faintly fuscous-tinged in male. Legs whitish, tarsal segments dark-tipped, cilia of hind tibiae whitish. Abdomen white, shaded with fuscous above.
Alar expanse 7 mm.
Male genitalia (figs. 114, 114a, 114b). Harpe short, broad, apical margin indistinctly concave, costal apical area clothed with strong setae ; socii small, apex truncate, setose ; subscaphium finely setose ; anellus a tapering cone, aperture dorsally with a minute sclerotized beak ; vinculum produced anteriorly into a rounded V ; aedeagus elongate, scarcely tapering, but widening slightly toward apex (in paratype, Levers, Texas, a few minute curved teeth visible near aperture). Scale sac very large, equalling the width of segment 2, bilobed (as in agncUa).
Female genitalia (figs. 115, 115a). Posterior portion of ductus bursae in segment 7 greatly enlarged and strongly sclerotized ; from the anterior end of this sclerotized section the ductus makes a nearly circular curve in segment 7, curving dorsad of the wide sclerotized section thence passing anteriorly to the bursa copulatrix which it enters in segment 5, this section of the ductus minutely dentate; signum, faint lines of slender spines (fig. 115a).
Type. — $ , Oneco, Manatee County, Florida, May, 1954 (Paula Dillman ) [A.N.S.P., Type No. 7814].
Allotype.— 2, Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida, April 8, 1953 (C. P. Kimball) [A.N.S.P., Type No. 7814].
Paratypes. — 2 S , Oneco, Manatee County, Florida, May 5, 1953 ( Paula Dillman), 2 9, Oneco, Manatee County, Florida, May 5, 8, 1953 (Paula Dillman) ; 1 2. Gulf Coast Exp. Sta., Bradenton, Florida, September 30, 1955 (E. G. Keisheimer) [C. P. Kimball Coll.]; 1 $, Levers, Texas, June 21, 1917 [Cornell U.]. Food plant and early stages unknown ; however, the species is probably a Composite feeder, and larvae should be sought in late spring and again in summer and late fall, as the dates of capture indicate at least two generations a year.
B. kimballi is closely allied to B. agnella Clemens, from which it is with difficulty distinguished by wing markings; the only apparent difference is the shape of the second dark costal streak, recurving toward apex. The very similar male genitalia further substantiate the close relationship to B. agnella; by female genitalia it is however clearly distinct from that species. The paratype from Levers, Texas is much worn; male genitalia substantiate the identity.
Bucculatrix kimballi is named in honor of Mr. Charles P. Kimball, from whom I received the Florida specimens of the type series.

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