Coleophora acuminatoides

Coleophora acuminatoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. acuminatoides
Binomial name
Coleophora acuminatoides
McDunnough, 1958[1]

Coleophora acuminatoides is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found in Canada, including Nova Scotia.

The larvae feed on the seeds of Aster acuminatus. They create a trivalved, tubular silken case. It is similar in size to the case of Coleophora bidens, but differing in the paler colouration which in freshly formed cases is a light brown.[2]

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