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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 » Spatulate and Tubular Leaf Casebearers (Coleophora Spatulate and Tubular Leaf Casebearers) » Pecan Cigar Casebearer - Hodges#1291 (Coleophora laticornella)

Species Coleophora laticornella - Pecan Cigar Casebearer - Hodges#1291

Classification · Hodges Number · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
1291 Pecan Cigar Casebearer - Coleophora laticornella Pecan Cigar Casebearer - Coleophora laticornella - female Coleophora laticornella Coleophora laticornella Coleophora laticornella Coleophora laticornella
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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 laticornella (Pecan Cigar Casebearer - Hodges#1291)
Hodges Number
1291
Identification
Genitalia:
♀
♂
Food
Pecan leaves and buds
Life Cycle
Overwinters as larva in case on twigs of hickory and pecan trees. Young larvae are leaf miners, older larvae feed externally.
Remarks
Larvae construct spatulate leaf cases. (1)
Jean-François Landry, a noted expert on Coleophora, says it is impossible to identify adults of this species without dissection or DNA barcoding.
See Also
1290 Coleophora kearfottella
1291 Coleophora laticornella
1292 Coleophora corylifoliella
1293 Coleophora juglandella
1294 Coleophora lentella
1295 Coleophora ostryae
1296 Coleophora alniella
1298 Coleophora alnifoliae
1299 Coleophora umbratica
1300 Coleophora comptoniella
1301.1 Coleophora limosipennella
1301.2 Coleophora badiipennella
Works Cited
1.Larval Case Architecture and Implications of Host-Plant Associations for North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera; Coleophoridae)
Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 November, 2009 - 9:48am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, ceiseman, Ken Childs, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 7 April, 2024 - 12:24pm

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