Species Details

ABH: 37.042

BF: 545

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora saturatella

Authority: Stainton, 1850

Vernacular: Broom Case-bearer

Account: Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) on heathland, open woodland and rough pastures in parts of south-eastern England The main confusion species is C. genistae, but that species has the ground colour of the forewing paler and more ochreous and the costal streak reaching almost to the apex (MBGBI Vol 3). Larva mines leaves of Broom and Dyer's Greenweed, living within a movable case; case length 8 mm.

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 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Cytisus sp., Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed).

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

Status: pRDB3

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 3 — Difficult to identify, an image may be required 🤔🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-saturatella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 5

Individuals: 22

Earliest Year: 2009

Latest Year: 2012

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