Coleophora hospitiella

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Coleophora hospitiella
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species:
C. hospitiella
Binomial name
Coleophora hospitiella
Chrétien, 1915[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora fuscostraminella Toll, 1956
  • Coleophora richteri Toll, 1959

Coleophora hospitiella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found on the Canary Islands (Tenerife, La Gomera, Fuerteventura), North Africa (including Libya and Tunisia), Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.[2]

The larvae feed on Medicago laciniata. They create a rather flat lobe case of 7–9 mm long, composed of fairly large leaf fragments. Later, the larvae start feeding on the ripening seeds.[3] Larvae can be found from January to May. Dependent on rain, larvae may wait one to several years before pupation takes place.

References[]

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Coleophoridae from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-04-28.


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