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Coleophora lithargyrinella

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coleophora lithargyrinella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees and Italy and from Ireland to the Baltic States and Romania. The wingspan is 11-13.5 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July in one generation per year. The larvae feed on Arenaria serpyllifolia, Cerastium arvense, Cerastium glomeratum, Stellaria holostea and Stellaria media. They create a trivalved tubular, silken pale brown case of about 8 mm long. It has a mouth angle of 25°-30°. The case has a double dorsal keel. Full-grown larvae can be found in May.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Exmoor Heaths 26455 England, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Arenaria leptoclados (oneflower stitchwort)[1]
Rabelera holostea[2]
Silene behen (maiden's tears)[2]
Silene dioica (red catchfly)[1]
Stellaria alsine (trailing stitchwort)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0