Species Details

ABH: 37.077

BF: 552

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora lassella

=Coleophora teidensis

Authority: Staudinger, 1859

Vernacular: Toad Rush Case-bearer

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in bare muddy places and sand-dunes in the south-western counties of England and Ireland, and the Channel Island 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 within seed capsules of Toad 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: 10 May (2002) — 14 Jun (2009)

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: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 8

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2012

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