Bucculatrix insolita Braun 1918

Bucculatrix insolita Braun (Figs. 143, 143a, 144, 144a.)
1918. Bucculatrix insolita Braun, Ent. News XXIX : 248. Type 8 , allotype ? , San Bernardino Mountains, California [A.F.B.Coll.].
Face gray, tuft of whitish and dark gray or brown scales intermingled ; eyecaps whitish, antennal stalk black. Thorax and basal third of fore wings white to a line extending obliquely outward from costa to dorsum ; a stripe of black scales along costa from base nearly to one-third; some blackish scales near base of dorsum ; sometimes a large patch of grayish ocherous dark-tipped scales lying over the fold; middle third of wing occupied by a broad truncated blackish triangle, its broad base on costa, with a few whitish scales on costa near its inner side; white oblique curved streaks border the black area outwardly and meet at an angle in the middle of the wing, the white prolonged from the angle toward termen and almost connected with an irregular patch of white scales on costa before apex ; space between this white patch and the curved white costal streak dusted with grayish or ocherous black-tipped scales ; a black spot at apex, and a line of black-tipped white scales around apex in the dark gray cilia. Hind wings and cilia irrorated fuscous. Legs black, bases of tarsal segments white. Abdomen blackish, with silvery gray anal tuft.
Alar expanse 7 to 7.5 mm. Male genitalia (figs. 143, 143a). Harpe typical of the group, slender in its apical half, with a few very heavy setae at apex, and several scattered such setae before apex ; tegumen bulging before the rounded setose socii ; subscaphium a thin dorso-ventral plate; anellus a broad cone; aedeagus long, sinuate, near tip an elongate internal thickening lobed at base (fig. 143a) ; vinculum with broad anterior sinus. Scale sac small, its diameter less than half the length of segment 2.
Female genitalia (figs. 144, 144a). Segment 9 modified, rasping rods well developed, vaginal setae notched at tip; on segment 8, a large tuft of specialized scales each side of ostium, and near lateral line a small clear circular spot; ostium in a depression at anterior margin of 8, two diverging posterior furrows, sculptured and microscopically spinulose at their margins ; ductus bursae strongly sclerotized in segment 7 and bent to the right; signum ribs closely placed, spines long posteriori} , short and irregular anteriorly (fig. 144a).
Specimens examined. — 1 <J , 2 2.
California: San Bernardino Mountains, $ type, Camp Baldy, July 7, 1914, with note " beaten from fir "; Fredalba, 2 allotype, August 29, 1912, 2 paratype, August 30. 1912 (G. R. Pilate) [A.F.B.Coll.].
Food plant and early stages unknown.
The sharp contrast between the almost white basal third of the fore wing and the dark middle section makes this one of our most easily recognized species.

Bucculatrix insolita is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California. It was described by Annette Frances Braun in 1918.