Coleophora lutarea (Haworth, 1828) Species
Last modified: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:06 p.m.
A rare species in Belgium.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Coleophoridae > Genus: Coleophora > Species: Coleophora lutarea
- Vernacular names
- Grijze muurkokermot (NL), Sternmieren-Sackträgermotte (DE)
- Synonyms
- Coleophora modestella (Duponchel, 1839)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Fré Ch. 1858. Catalogue des Microlépidoptères de la Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 2: 45–162. On page 150.
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Wing span:10–14 mm.
The fore wings are uniformly coloured: greyish brown with most of the time a shine on the wings.
The antennae are alternately ringed till the tip.
Museum specimens
No pictures yet!Specimens in nature
Bionomics
The larva spends almost its entire life in a seed-capsule, feeding on the ripening seeds. Only fully grown, it makes a silken case within the now empty and dry capsule. Very often it leaves the host plant and walks up a tree where it gnaws a cavity in the bark, leaving the case behind, and enters the winter diapause. The larvae are full fed and leave their capsule in mid June.
The adults are most of the time deep in a flower to suck the nectar. They are day active but also come to light.
Flight periods
The adults fly in one generation a year, from the end of April till the end of May.
Observed on
- Host plant (species):
- Stellaria holostea
In Belgium this species is monophagous on Stellaria holostea.
