Coleophora stuposa

Coleophora stuposa is a moth of the family Coleophoridae that can be found in Turkestan and Uzbekistan.[1]

Coleophora stuposa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Coleophoridae
Genus:
Coleophora
Species:
C. stuposa
Binomial name
Coleophora stuposa
(Falkovitsh, 1992)

The wingspan is 10.5–12.5 millimetres (0.41–0.49 in).

The larvae feed on Salsola gemmascens. They create a silky, very compact case with a cover. This cover is cloth-like and dense. The valve is three-sided and short. The length of the case is 4.5–5 millimetres (0.18–0.20 in). The color of the cover is gray, while the silky base is brown, with five to six indistinct but lustrous longitudinal lines partially obliterated by surrounding pubescence. The case of the young larvae is whitish-gray. Larvae can be found from September to October.[2]

References
  1. Giorgio Baldizzone; Hugo van der Wolf; Jean-François Landry (2006). World Catalogue of Insects. 8. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. p. 110. ISBN 87-88757-76-5. ISSN 1398-8700.
  2. Lepidopterous fauna of the USSR and adjacent countries


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