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524 Coleophora lithargyrinella (Zeller, 1849)
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the case has a doble dorsal keel

 

Food Plant: Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort)

Mine: September to October, feeding again from March to May.

Notes:  Larva mines leaves. The final case is tubular, 8mm long, with a dorsal keel which forks and continues as two ridges to the anal end of the case.

Data: 28.v.2003, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds

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