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 North America, 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 coloration which in freshly formed cases is a light brown.^[2]

References

1. ^ mothphotographersgroup
2. ^ A new species of Coleophora belonging to the duplicis-bidens Group

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