Coleophora acuminatoides
Coleophora acuminatoides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Coleophoridae |
Genus: | Coleophora |
Species: | C. acuminatoides
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Binomial name | |
Coleophora acuminatoides McDunnough, 1958[1]
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Coleophora acuminatoides is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Canada, 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 colouration which in freshly formed cases is a light brown.[2]
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Categories:
- Coleophora
- Moths described in 1958
- Moths of North America
- Coleophoridae stubs