Species Details

ABH: 37.009

BF: 496

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora milvipennis

Authority: Zeller, 1839

Vernacular: Birch Case-bearer

Account: Local on heathland and in open woodland throughout much of Britain; rare in Ireland. 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 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: 10.5 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 28 Jun (2008) — 8 Jul (2010)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 29

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2012

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