Coleophora corsicella

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Coleophora corsicella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species:
C. corsicella
Binomial name
Coleophora corsicella
Walsingham, 1898 [1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora flavescentellaToll, 1961
  • Coleophora calcariellaChrétien, 1901

Coleophora corsicella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from France to Italy and Greece and from Slovakia to the Iberian Peninsula.

The larvae feed on Agrostemma , Lychnis viscaria , Silene italica and Silene viscosa . [2]

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2011-04-28.