Coleophora unipunctella

Coleophora unipunctella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. unipunctella
Binomial name
Coleophora unipunctella
Zeller, 1849[1]
Synonyms
  • Coleophora nigrostigmatella Heeger, 1853
  • Coleophora zelleri Nowicki, 1860

Coleophora unipunctella is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found from France and Spain to Romania and from Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Italy and Hungary. It is also known from southern Russia. It occurs in forest-steppe.

Adults are on wing in June and July.[2]

The larvae feed on Chenopodium hybridum and Atriplex species. They feed on the generative organs of their host plant.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ The Casebearers of the Volga-Ural inter-river region (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)
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