Species Details

ABH: 37.053

BF: 536

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora betulella

Authority: Heinemann, [1876]

Vernacular: Birch Pistol Case-bearer

Account: Local in heathland and birch woodland throughout much of England, southern Wales and western Ireland Thoroughly confused with C. ibipennella in the past. 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 Birch, subsequently 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: 10 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 20 Jun (2007) — 24 Jul (2002)

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

Foodplant:

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-betulella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 13

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2012

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