Coleophora flaviella

Coleophora flaviella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from Germany to the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Greece and from France to Romania.

Coleophora flaviella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Coleophoridae
Genus:	Coleophora
Species:	C. flaviella
Binomial name
Coleophora flaviella Mann, 1857[1]
Synonyms
Coleophora infibulatella Hofmann, 1874

The larvae feed on Coronilla coronata and Coronilla minima. Young larvae live within a pod and feed on the seeds. Later, the larvae feed outside in a tubular silken case that is wrapped in a leaf fragment. The seeds are now consumed through a hole in the wall of the pod. At a later stage, the youth case is vacated and the larva makes a new, white, later brown, trivalved silken tube again wrapped in a single leaf fragment, only covering the tube partially. The mouth angle is about 10°.[2] Larvae can be found up to June.

References

1. Fauna Europaea
2. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-04-29.