Coleophora clypeiferella

      Coleophora clypeiferella
      Scientific classification
      Kingdom: Animalia
      Phylum: Arthropoda
      Class: Insecta
      Order: Lepidoptera
      Family: Coleophoridae
      Genus: Coleophora
      Species: C. clypeiferella
      Binomial name
      Coleophora clypeiferella
      Hofmann, 1871[1]
      Synonyms
      • Ionescumia clypeiferella

      Coleophora clypeiferella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Fennoscandia to France, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria and from Great Britain to Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. It is also known from the Caucasus and Ural regions of Russia[2] and China.[3] It occurs in steppe and cultivated areas.

      The wingspan is about 14 mm. Adults have an unusual sclerotised plate on the tip of the abdomen containing small spines, which is probably used to help break out of the pupal cocoon.[4] They are on wing in July and August.

      The larvae feed on Chenopodium album, Chenopodium rubrum and Chenopodium murale. They feed on the seedheads of their host plant and form a case made from fragments of seed during September and October.

      References

      1. ^ Fauna Europaea
      2. ^ The Casebearers of the Volga-Ural inter-river region (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)
      3. ^ Checklist and new species of the Coleophora salicorniae group from China (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae)
      4. ^ UKmoths
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      Last modified on 16 May 2013, at 14:59