Species Details

ABH: 37.083

BF: 565

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora saxicolella

=Coleophora benanderi

Authority: (Duponchel, [1843])

Vernacular: Orache Case-bearer

Account: Local on waste ground, farmland and rough ground throughout much of the British Isles, but not in the Highlands or Islands of Scotland Imago very similar to C. sternipennella, from which only reliably separated by dissection of the genitalia. Larva feeds on seeds of Orache and Goosefoot, living within a movable case. Case indistinguishable from those of C. sternipennella, C. versurella and C. vestianella.

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: 13 — 16 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 28 Jul (2006) — 16 Aug (2006)

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

Foodplant: Atriplex sp., Chenopodium 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: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-saxicolella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 7

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2006

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