The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Coleophora glaucicolella Wood, 1892
[Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae]


Coleophora glaucicolella Wood, 1892. Ent. mon. Mag.: 102.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: The full grown larval case is very similar to that of C. alticolella, but the larvae can be differentiated (UKMoths). The larva is illustrated in UKMoths.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Juncaceae      
Juncus     UKMoths

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: June to August at sunrise, dusk and night.

Distribution in Britain: Widespread and common in Britain (UKMoths), including, East Kent, East Ross, Fife, Hunts, Mid-west York, North Essex, North Hants, North Wilts, South Aberdeen, South Hants, South Lancaster, Surrey, West Cornwall, West Lancaster, Worcester (NBN Gateway distribution map - BRERC, GiGL, HBRG, JNCC, NE, NESBRC, SNH and SHWRG) and Northern Ireland (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

It is often abundant on salt marshes. Sometimes goes unrecorded because of confusion with another Juncus feeding species, C. alticolella (UKMoths).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in Europe including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, ? Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - Central, North and South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Ukraine (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



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Belgian Lepidoptera
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Last updated 27-Sep-2008  Brian Pitkin