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Species Coleophora kearfottella - Hodges#1290

Representative Images

Coleophora kearfottella Stacked leaf fragments: Coleophora? - Coleophora kearfottella Coleophora? - Coleophora kearfottella Coleophora kearfottella Leaf miner, Salix humilis - Coleophora kearfottella Coleophora on Willow - Coleophora kearfottella ColeophoraX on Willow - Coleophora kearfottella Coleophora, herbivory, under side of Willow leaf - Coleophora kearfottella
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)
Family Coleophoridae (Casebearer Moths)
Subfamily Coleophorinae
Genus Coleophora
No Taxon (Lobe Casebearers)
Species kearfottella (Coleophora kearfottella - Hodges#1290)

Hodges Number

1290

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Coleophora kearfottella Barnes & Busck, 1920

Size

11-12 mm (1)

Food

Willow. (2)

See Also

Coleophora cretaticostella and Coleophora accordella (1)

Print References

Barnes & Busck, 1920. Notes on new species. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America. 4(3):244 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group
Barcoding Life

Works Cited

1.Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4)
William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.
2.Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
Charley Eiseman & Noah Charney. 2010. Stackpole Books.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 8 November, 2007 - 5:28pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, ceiseman, Abigail Parker
Last updated 8 October, 2015 - 8:00am

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