Species Details

ABH: 37.093

BF: 559

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora peribenanderi

Authority: Toll, 1943

Vernacular: Thistle Case-bearer

Account: Common in rough grassland, waste ground, roadside verges and woodland rides throughout much of England and Wales, rare elsewhere Very similar to C. therinella, from which only separated in 1942. 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 Carduus, Cirsium and Arctium, 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: 12.5 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 May (2018) — 20 Aug (2006)

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

Foodplant: Arctium sp. (a burdock), Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle).

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-peribenanderi/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 11

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2019

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