Species Details

ABH: 37.106

BF: 560

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora paripennella

Authority: Zeller, 1839

Vernacular: Bronze Case-bearer

Account: Local on roadside verges, rough grassland and waste ground throughout the British Isles, as far north as Aberdeenshire 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 Creeping Thistle and Common Knapweed, 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 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 21 May (2017) — 10 Jul (2013)

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

Foodplant: Arctium sp. (a burdock), Centaurea sp., Cirsium sp., Serratula sp.

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

Status: Local

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-paripennella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 11

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2019

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