Species Details

ABH: 37.039

BF: 523

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora hemerobiella

Authority: (Scopoli, 1763)

Vernacular: Black-spot Case-bearer

Account: Local in hedgerows, gardens and orchards throughout much of south-eastern England. First recorded in Hampshire in Shroner Wood, north Hampshire, in 1965, but then not seen again until 2003, when increasingly found in suitable habitat in the north-east of the county. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 12-15 mm. The forewings are pale grey and the stigma is normally clearly visible; the species is usually quite unmistakable. Larva mines leaves of Hawthorn, Apple, Wild Cherry, Rowan, Pear, Plum and Whitebeam, causing sufficient damage to be a serious pest in some areas, living within a movable case, and over-wintering twice; case length 8-11 mm.

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 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Jul (2020) — 1 Aug (2001)

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

Foodplant: Crataegus sp., Malus sp. (an apple), 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: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-hemerobiella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 52

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2020

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