Species Details

ABH: 37.074

BF: 581

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora taeniipennella

=Coleophora galactaula

Authority: Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Vernacular: Small Rush Case-bearer

Account: Common in fens, damp meadows and marshes throughout much of the British Isles Like many of the Coleophora, imagines are virtually impossible to identify without recourse to dissection, and best recorded by searching for the larvae, which live in cases of characteristic form on seeds of Jointed Rush and Sharp-flowered Rush.

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: 9 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jun (2010) — 6 Aug (2011)

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

Foodplant: Juncus sp.

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-taeniipennella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 8

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2015

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