Species Details

ABH: 37.071

BF: 582

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora glaucicolella

Authority: Wood, 1892

Vernacular: Grey Rush Case-bearer

Account: Common in marshes, fens, damp meadows, woodland rides and saltmarshes throughout much of the British Isles Very similar to C. alticolella. 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 feeds on seeds of Compact Rush, Soft-rush, Hard Rush and Saltmarsh Rush, 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: 10 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 Jun (2002) — 26 Jul (2008)

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

Foodplant: Juncus sp., Luzula sp.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 11

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2015

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