Coleophora adjectella
| Coleophora adjectella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Coleophoridae |
| Genus: | Coleophora |
| Species: | C. adjectella |
| Binomial name | |
| Coleophora adjectella Herrich-Schäffer, 1861 | |
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Coleophora adjectella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Scandinavia to Spain, Sardinia, Sicily and Greece and from Great Britain to Poland and Slovakia.[1]
The larvae feed on Crataegus species, Prunus domestica and Prunus spinosa. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The first larval case is constructed from a cut out area of an oval mine in the centre of the leaf. The second and third cases are cut out of a mine along the leaf margin. The final case is 6–7 mm long, with a bivalved, square-cut rear end. The mouth angle is about 45°.[3] The larvae can be found from August to May in most of the range, but hibernate twice in Denmark.
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