Species Details

ABH: 37.029

BF: 511

Family: Coleophoridae

Taxon: Coleophora orbitella

Authority: Zeller, 1849

Vernacular: Dusky Case-bearer

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in heaths and alder carr throughout Britain, except the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland; western and south-western Ireland (MBGBI Vol 3) 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 Birch and Alder, living within a movable case. In Hampshire cases have been found mainly on birch.

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: 10.5 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 12 Jun (2012) — 19 Jun (2011)

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

Foodplant: Alnus sp., Betula sp. (a birch).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2010

Latest Year: 2012

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