Coleophora glaucicolella

Coleophora glaucicolella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. glaucicolella
Binomial name
Coleophora glaucicolella
Wood, 1892
Synonyms
  • Perygra glaucicolella

Coleophora glaucicolella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Europe, east to the Urals and Iran, west to Greenland and North America (where it is found in most of Canada and Ohio). It is also found in China.[1] It occurs in forest-steppe biotopes, wet meadows and meadow-steppe.

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August at sunrise, dusk and night.

The larvae feed on the seeds of Juncus species, including Juncus inflexus, Juncus conglomeratus, Juncus effusus and Juncus gerardii, and supposedly also on Luzula. They create a trivalved, tubular silken case.

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