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Species Coleophora serratella - Cigar Casebearer Moth - Hodges#1308

Cigar Casebearer Moth - Coleophora serratella

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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 (Spatulate and Tubular Leaf Casebearers)

Species serratella (Cigar Casebearer Moth - Hodges#1308)

Hodges Number

1308

Food

Leaves of Betula, Alnus, Comptonia, Myrica, and Salix.

Remarks

Larvae construct tubular leaf cases. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Larval Case Architecture and Implications of Host-Plant Associations for North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera; Coleophoridae)

Contributed by Ken Schneider on 2 July, 2009 - 3:30pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman
Last updated 13 May, 2011 - 7:23pm

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