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Coleophora therinella

Checklist Number
37.081 [B&F: 0561]

Verification
Record requires retention of specimen until confirmed, and may require dissection. Consult with CMR if unsure

Classification

Family:Coleophoridae
Subfamily:Coleophorinae
Genus:Coleophora
Species:therinella
Authority:Tengström, 1848

Nationally scarce (Nb) on waste ground and farmland in England, south of a line from The Wash to the Severn estuary, and in Ireland from the Burren district of Co. Clare (MBGBI Vol 3). In Hampshire occasional at light in the south-east of the county, at Botley Wood and in Southsea, outside this area, recorded only at Teg Down, Winchester, where the first cases ever to be found in Britain were discovered in August 1990. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight since 1900. Wingspan 13-16 mm. Very similar to C. peribenanderi, from which only separated in 1942. Like many of the Coleophora, imagines are virtually impossible to identify without recourse to dissection, and the larvae, which live in cases of characteristic form and which can sometimes be found on the foodplant, may be easier to identify by comparison against a reference collection. Larva feeds on seeds of Black Bindweed, living within a movable case.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
Very occasional
Irregular
Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
Main flight time
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Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

Records by week (larval)

VC10 Isle of Wight

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Ventnor (SZ57)1900-Victoria County Hist of Hants & IW 1900Adult

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Catisfield (SU50)14/07/1972oneRichard J DicksonAdult
Botley Wood (SU50)26/08/1972oneRichard J DicksonAdult
Portsdown (SU60)03/07/1975oneRichard J DicksonAdult
Southsea (SZ69)02/07/1986oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)14/07/1986oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)20/06/1989oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Teg Down, Winchester (SU43)27/08/1990twoJ R Langmaid, D H SterlingCase
Southsea (SZ69)20/07/1991oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)06/07/1992oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)25/06/1995oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)24/07/1996oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Portsmouth (SU60)30/06/2000oneIan ThirlwellAdult
Portsmouth (SU60)18/07/2000oneIan ThirlwellAdult
The Moors NR, Bishop's Waltham (SU51)01/08/2003oneRichard J DicksonAdult
Fareham (SU50)10/08/2004oneRichard J DicksonAdult
Portsmouth (SU60)26/07/2012oneIan ThirlwellAdult
Southsea (SZ69)13/07/2018oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Portsmouth (SU60)17/07/2022oneIan ThirlwellAdult

VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Alton (SU73)20/07/2010oneDave OwenAdult
Basingstoke (SU64)17/08/2012oneTony DobsonAdult