Coleophora niveicostella
Coleophora niveicostella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Coleophoridae |
Genus: | Coleophora |
Species: | C. niveicostella |
Binomial name | |
Coleophora niveicostella Zeller, 1839[1] | |
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Coleophora niveicostella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Sweden and Latvia to Spain, Italy and Greece and from Great Britain to Romania.
The wingspan is 11–13 mm.[2] Adults are on wing in July.[3]
The larvae feed on Thymus praecox, Thymus pulegioides and Thymus serpyllum. They create a slender, brownish black, bivalved case of 7–8 mm. The oral half is tubular, while the rear part strongly laterally compressed. The mouth angle is about 30°. The case looks like a sheath case, but is in fact a composite leaf case. The larva cuts off mined leaves, after having removed the complete leaf margin: what is left is an upper and a lower epidermis, connected by the stub of the petiole. Leaves treated in this way are placed in front of the old case.[4] Full-grown larvae can be found in mid June.
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