Species Details

ABH: 37.096

BF: 557

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora gardesanella

=Coleophora machinella

Authority: Toll, 1953

Vernacular: Small Streaked Case-bearer

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) in a wide variety of habitats, including saltmarshes, damp meadows, marshes, river-banks, dry grassland, downland, waste ground and roadside verges, in the south-eastern counties of England, from Hampshire to Essex, but may prove to be more widespread 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 Sea Wormwood, Mugwort, Sneezewort, Yarrow, Tansy and Ox-eye Daisy, living within a movable 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: 9.5 — 11 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 Jul (2008) — 23 Jul (2011)

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

Foodplant: Achillea sp., Artemisia sp.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce A

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2008

Latest Year: 2011

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