Species Details

ABH: 37.049

BF: 533

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora anatipennella

=Coleophora bernoulliella

Authority: (Hübner, 1796)

Vernacular: Pistol Case-bearer

Account: Local in scrubland, hedgerows, parks and gardens in southern England and Wales; rare elsewhere Like many of the Coleophora, imagines are virtually impossible to identify without recourse to dissection, and the larvae, which live in cases of characteristic form and which can sometimes be found on the foodplant, may be easier to identify by comparison against a reference collection. Larva mines leaves of Blackthorn, and also Wild Cherry, Hawthorn, Apple, Pear and Rowan, living within a movable pistol-case.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 12.5 — 17 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn), Rosaceae.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-anatipennella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2009

Latest Year: 2011

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