Coleophora aegyptiacae

Coleophora aegyptiacae
Coleophora aegyptiacae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. aegyptiacae
Binomial name
Coleophora aegyptiacae
Walsingham, 1907[1]

Coleophora aegyptiacae is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found on the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Fuerteventura) and in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Iran, Oman and Yemen.[2]

The larvae feed on the leaves Salvia aegyptiaca. They live in a case

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