Species Details

ABH: 37.099

BF: 553

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora striatipennella

=Coleophora apicella

Authority: Nylander [1848]

Vernacular: Hedge Case-bearer

Account: Common in rough grassland, waste ground, woodland rides, damp woodland, marshes, river-banks and other damp areas throughout much of the British Isles 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 feeds within seed capsules of Lesser Stitchwort, Common Chickweed, Common Mouse-ear and Water Chickweed, 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: 11 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 7 May (2020) — 24 Jul (2008)

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

Foodplant: Cerastium fontanum (Common Mouse-ear), Stellaria graminea (Lesser Stitchwort), Stellaria media (Common Chickweed).

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-striatipennella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 42

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2020

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