Species Details

ABH: 37.013

BF: 501

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora siccifolia

Authority: Stainton, 1856

Vernacular: Keeled Case-bearer

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in hedgerows and heathland throughout much of Britain, but not in northern Scotland 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, Hawthorn, Apple and Rowan, living within a movable case, over-wintering twice.

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 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch), Rosaceae.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 6

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2007

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