Coleophora corsicella

Coleophora corsicella
Coleophora corsicella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. corsicella
Binomial name
Coleophora corsicella
Walsingham, 1898[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora flavescentella Toll, 1961
  • Coleophora calcariella Chrétien, 1901

Coleophora corsicella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from France to Italy and Greece and from Slovakia to the Iberian Peninsula.

The larvae feed on Agrostemma, Lychnis viscaria, Silene italica and Silene viscosa. They create a tubular silken case scattered with rows of detritus fragments.[2]

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