Species Details

ABH: 37.048

BF: 518

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora mayrella

=Coleophora spissicornis

Authority: (Hübner, [1813])

Vernacular: Clothed Case-bearer

Account: Common on grassland, roadside verges and waste ground throughout much of the British Isles 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 seedheads of White Clover, living within a movable case, and can be collected and bred through as described in MBGBI Vol 3.

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: 10.5 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 May (2011) — 20 Jul (2015)

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

Foodplant: Trifolium repens (White Clover).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify, an image may be required 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-mayrella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 35

Individuals: 4

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2021

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