Species Details

ABH: 37.052

BF: 535

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora ibipennella

=Coleophora ardeaepennella

=Coleophora nemorum

Authority: Zeller, 1849

Vernacular: Oak Pistol Case-bearer

Account: Local in oak woodland in the south-east of England, extending in decreasing numbers northwards and westwards to Lincolnshire, Herefordshire and Cornwall (MBGBI Vol 3) Thoroughly confused with C. betulella in the past. Like many of the Coleophora, imagines are virtually impossible to identify without recourse to dissection, and the larvae, which live in cases of characteristic form and which can sometimes be found on the foodplant, may be easier to identify by comparison against a reference collection. Larva mines leaves of Oak, subsequently living within a movable pistol-case.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 10 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 28 Jun (2008) — 13 Jul (2005)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch), Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak), Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/coleophora-ibipennella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 33

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2013

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