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 kuehnella (Goeze, 1783)
[Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae]


Tinea kuehnella Goeze, 1783.
Tinea palliatella Zincken, 1813. Germar Mag. ent. 1 (1): 40. [Synonymy: see Baldizzone, 1996]
Coleophora kuehnella (
Goeze, 1783).


Leaf-mine: Initially feeds underside of the leaf making tiny holes in groups. The larva feeds into November then overwinters attached to the angle of a twig. In the spring and constructs a case as shown with a large 'pallium' of scales - the autumnal ones being blackish (British leafminers).

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Fagaceae      
Quercus     British leafminers
Quercus     Plant, in Pitkin & Plant, 2005 (as C. palliatella)

Hosts elsewhere:

Fagaceae      
Quercus     Nederlandse bladmineerders

Time of year - mines: September - June (British leafminers).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Britain: Widespread in England including Cambridge, East Kent, East Suffolk, Hunts, North Essex, North Hants, Salop, Stafford, Surrey, West Kent, West Suffolk and Worcester (NBN Gateway distribution map - JNCC and NE).

A local species preferring the sunny edges of woods and rides (British leafminers).

Distribution elsewhere: Widepread in Europe including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - Central and South, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Also recorded in the Near East (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



External links: Search the internet:

Belgian Lepidoptera
British leafminers
NBN Gateway

Nederlandse bladmineerders
Fauna Europaea
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Last updated 27-Sep-2008  Brian Pitkin