Coleophora wockeella

Coleophora wockeella
Coleophora wockeella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. wockeella
Binomial name
Coleophora wockeella
Zeller, 1849[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora italiae Toll, 1960

Coleophora wockeella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from Latvia to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Albania and from Great Britain to southern Russia.

Mined leaf of Betonica officinalis with a larva-case attached
Larva

The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are ochreous with several whitish streaks on the forewing and distinctively thickened bases to the antennae. Adults are on wing from June to July in western Europe.[2]

The larvae feed on Stachys officinalis. They create a dark brown, bivalved, composite leaf case of about 10 mm long and composed of 6-8 ringlets. The mouth angle is very sharp, causing the case to lie almost flat on the leaf.[3] Larvae can be found from autumn to mid May.

Etymology

The species was named after the German entomologist Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke.

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ UKmoths
  3. ^ bladmineerders.nl
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