Coleophora hospitiella

Coleophora hospitiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Coleophoridae
Genus:	Coleophora
Species:	C. hospitiella
Binomial name
	Coleophora hospitiella; Chrétien, 1915
Synonyms
	Coleophora fuscostraminella Toll, 1956; Coleophora richteri Toll, 1959;

Coleophora hospitiella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found on the Canary Islands (Tenerife, La Gomera, Fuerteventura), North Africa (including Libya and Tunisia), Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.^[2]

The larvae feed on Medicago laciniata. They create a rather flat lobe case of 7–9 mm long, composed of fairly large leaf fragments. Later, the larvae start feeding on the ripening seeds.^[3] Larvae can be found from January to May. Dependent on rain, larvae may wait one to several years before pupation takes place.

References

^ Fauna Europaea
^ Coleophoridae from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-04-28.

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] Coleophoridae from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-04-28.

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