Coleophora acrisella

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Coleophora acrisella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species:
C. acrisella
Binomial name
Coleophora acrisella
Milliere, 1872 [1]

Coleophora acrisella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from the Czech Republic to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Greece and from France to Hungary.

The wingspan is about 12 mm. [2]

The larvae feed on Dorycnium hirsutum and Dorycnium pentaphyllum (including Dorycnium pentaphyllum germanicum). They mine the leaves of their host plant. [3]

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. lepiforum.de
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-04-19.