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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Casebearer Moths (Coleophoridae) » Coleophorinae » Coleophora » Seed Casebearers (Coleophora Seed Casebearers) » Metallic Coleophora Moth - Hodges#1387 (Coleophora mayrella)

Species Coleophora mayrella - Metallic Coleophora Moth - Hodges#1387

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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 (Seed Casebearers)
Species mayrella (Metallic Coleophora Moth - Hodges#1387)
Hodges Number
1387
Other Common Names
Casebearer Moth, Clover(?) Casebearer Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Coleophora mayrella (Hübner, 1813)
Tinea mayrella Hübner, 1813
Synonyms
Coleophora spissicornis
Phalaena fabriciella Villers, 1789
Porrectaria spissicornis Haworth, 1828
Elachista trochilipennella Costa, 1836
Coleophora coruscipennella Clemens, 1860
C. aeneusella Chambers, 1874
C. auropurpuriella Chambers, 1874
C. tuscaemiliella Costantini, 1923
Damophila moldaviella Nemes, 2004
Numbers
Perhaps the most widespread and frequently collected coleophorid in North America (1)
Size
Wingspan: 11-12 mm.
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length 4.5-6.5 mm. (1)
Identification
Wings metallic dark brown with no markings. Each antenna ringed with brown and white beyond thickened basal half. [description by Charles Covell]
Genitalia:
♀
♂
Range
Throughout the United States and southern Canada
Season
The flight period is March to October with the peak in June and July.
Food
The larvae feed on clover seeds, white clover (Trifolium repens).
Remarks
Palearctic. Adventive in the Nearctic.
Print References
Covell Jr., C.V. 1984. Peterson's Field Guide to Eastern Moths. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 442, pl. 63(7). (2),
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. plate 6, fig. 16; p. 75. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Larry Line, Maryland adult images
Bob Patterson, Maryland adult images
University of California, Berkeley; list
UK Moths
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 3 July, 2005 - 3:05pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, ceiseman, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 November, 2023 - 11:23am

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