Coleophora cartilaginella

Coleophora cartilaginella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It has a disjunct distribution. It has been recorded from the Iberian Peninsula, northern Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia and North Macedonia. It is also known from southern Russia, central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan.

Coleophora cartilaginella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species:
C. cartilaginella
Binomial name
Coleophora cartilaginella
Christoph, 1872[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora dubiosa Toll, 1952
  • Coleophora medicagivora Toll, 1961
  • Coleophora paraspumosella Toll, 1957

Adults are on wing in June.[2]

The larvae feed on Astragalus albicaulis and Medicago species. They create a straw-coloured pistol case of up to 16 mm long. The mouth angle is about 45°.[3] Larvae can be found from autumn to June of the following year.

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. The Casebearers of the Volga-Ural inter-river region (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2011-04-28.


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