Coleophora sylvaticella

Coleophora sylvaticella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae found in Europe.

Coleophora sylvaticella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Coleophoridae
Genus:
Coleophora
Species:
C. sylvaticella
Binomial name
Coleophora sylvaticella
Synonyms
  • Coleophora etelka Gozmány, 1954

Description

The wingspan is 11–12 mm (0.43–0.47 in). Coleophora species have narrow blunt to pointed forewings and a weakly defined tornus. The hindwings are narrow-elongate and very long-fringed. The upper surfaces have neither a discal spot nor transverse lines. Each abdomen segment of the abdomen has paired patches of tiny spines which show through the scales. The resting position is horizontal with the front end raised and the cilia give the hind tip a frayed and upturned look if the wings are rolled around the body.

C. sylvaticella characteristics include a greyish-ochreous head and white antennae. The forewings are greyish-ochreous; costa somewhat paler or whitish-tinged; costal cilia posteriorly pale ochreous. The hindwings are grey.[3][4] Adults are on wing in May and June.[5]

The larvae feed on the seeds of greater wood-rush (Luzula sylvatica) forming a case and overwinter twice.[6]

Distribution

The moth is found from Norway and Sweden to France, Italy and Romania and from Ireland to Poland and Slovakia.

References
  1. "Coleophora sylvaticella Wood, 1892". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  2. Wood, J H (1892). "Our rush-feeding Colephorae". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 28 (= Second series 3): 117–122, 169–176, plate 4.
  3. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  4. image from lepiforum.de
  5. "microlepidoptera.nl". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  6. "37.076 [B&F: 0580] Coleophora sylvaticella Wood, 1892". Hants Moths. Retrieved 23 January 2020.


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