August Busck [SEP] place of birth
August Busck
August Busck (February 18, 1870, Randers, Denmark – March 7, 1944, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) was a Danish entomologist who became an American citizen. Busck was an employee of the Bureau of Entomology within USDA. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over 600 species. His collections of Lepidoptera from North America and the Panama Canal Zone are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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Coptodisca arbutiella
Coptodisca arbutiella, the madrone shield bearer, is a moth of the family Heliozelidae. It was described by August Busck in 1904. It is found in western North America from California to British Columbia.
The larvae feed on "Arbutus" species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is blotch-like. Full-grown larvae cut out elliptical cases out of the upper and lower leaf surfaces, in which pupation takes place.