Species Details

ABH: 37.022

BF: 504

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora lusciniaepennella

=Coleophora viminetella

Authority: (Treitschke, 1833)

Vernacular: Willow Case-bearer

Account: Common in freshwater margins, woodland, bogs and fens throughout much of the British Isles, except for the extreme north of Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland Islands 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 Sallow, Willow, Osier, Bog-myrtle and Birch, 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 — 13.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 Jun (2011) — 26 Jul (2008)

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: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 20

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2014

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