Coleophora adelogrammella

Coleophora adelogrammella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Iberian Peninsula, Corsica, Italy, North Macedonia and Thrace and from France to Hungary.

Coleophora adelogrammella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Coleophoridae
Genus:
Coleophora
Species:
C. adelogrammella
Binomial name
Coleophora adelogrammella
Zeller, 1849[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora separatella Benander, 1939

The wingspan is 13–15 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Dianthus sylvestris, Petrorhagia prolifera and Petrorhagia saxifraga. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a trivalved tubular silken case of 7-7.5 mm. The mouth has an angle of 30-35°. In spring, the larvae not only mine the leaves, but also the stems.[3]

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Swedish Moths
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-04-19.


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