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Coleophora
paripennella Zeller, 1839 Dark Thistle Case-bearer Coleophora paripennella Zeller, 1839. Isis: 208. |
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Leaf-miner and case-bearer: Larva mines leaves (British leafminers). The larva builds a case from silk, resembling a razor shell in appearance. (UKMoths). The full-grown case is 12 mm long and blackish-brown (British leafminers). The full grown larva lives in a blackish brown trivalved tubular silken case of about 8 mm. The mouth angle is 0°-10°, causing the case to lay almost flat on the leaf (Bladmineerders van Europa). Larva: The larvae of moths have a head capsule and chewing mouthparts with opposable mandibles (see video of a gracillarid larva feeding), six thoracic legs and abdominal legs (see examples). Head and plates black. Body dull yellowish white; prothoracic plate large with median sulcus; mesothoracic plate consisting of four sclerites, the anterior pair dot-like and widely separared, the posterior pair subrtriangular and closely approximated; metathorax with two small, well-separated dorsal sclerites; thoracic segments with small lateral sclerites; an anal plate; four pairs of abdominal prolegs (Emmet at al., 1996a) (Bladmineerders van Europa). Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples). Adult: The adult is illustrated in UKMoths. The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk. Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts elsewhere:
Time of year - larvae: August to October on Thistle, probably full-grown in autumn. September to October on Knapweed, feeding again from April until May or June (British leafminers). Time of year - adults: The nocturnal adults fly in July and August and are attracted to light (UKMoths). Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Occurring throughout most of the British Isles (UKMoths), including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Breconshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Denbighshire, Dorset, Dumfriesshire, Durham, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Easterness, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Haddington, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Kincardineshire, Merionethshire, Middlesex, North Hampshire, North Northumberland, North-east Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Pembrokeshire, Shropshire, South Hampshire, South Northumberland, South-east Yorkshire, South-west Yorkshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Cornwall, West Kent, West Norfolk, West Suffolk, Westmorland and Wigtownshire (NBN Atlas) and Ireland (Fauna Europaea). Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. See also Ireland's National Biodiversity Data Centre Map). Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central and North, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland. Also recorded in the East Palaearctic (Fauna Europaea). NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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