Coleophora atriplicis explained

Coleophora atriplicis is a moth of the family Coleophoridae found in Europe and North America.

Description

The wingspan is 12–14 mm.[1] Adults are on wing from July to August in western Europe.[2]

The larvae feed on grass-leaved orache (Atriplex littoralis), sea purslane (Halimione portulacoides), glasswort (Salicornia species) and sea-blite (Suaeda species).[3] Full-grown larvae can be found in October.

Distribution

Coleophora atriplicis is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to France, Poland and Romania and from Ireland to Ukraine. It is also found in North America, with records from Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Washington state.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.microlepidoptera.nl/soorten/genitalia.php?speciescode=260850&g=1 microlepidoptera.nl
  2. http://britishlepidoptera.weebly.com/573-coleophora-atriplicis.html British Lepidoptera
  3. Web site: Ellis . W N . Coleophora atriplicis Meyrick, 1928 saltmarsh case-bearer . Plant Parasite of Europe . 1 August 2019.
  4. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3749.1.1 Shared but overlooked: 30 species of Holarctic Microlepidoptera revealed by DNA barcodes and morphology