37.022 Coleophora lusciniaepennella 0504
ws: 10-13.5; Jun-Jul; sallows and willows (Salix spp), bog-myrtle (Myrica gale); common in woodland bogs and fens throughout Britain
Coleophora lusciniaepennella §2 female; Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 07/07/2013; fw 6.0mm © Chris Lewis
ID: Forewing plain, not metallic, not white, without any pale markings; antenna white ringed fuscous to beyond half length of flagellum, proximal segments not thickened with scales > 22 species. (In the key in MBGBI3 this may be narrowed down to 5 species by stating that the antenna is obscurely ringed rather than fully ringed in the apical portion and that the forewing colour is fuscous or ochreous-brown rather than ferruginous or ochreous-orange - I do not think these distinctions can be reliably made).
Female genitalia: Signum very large, spike <1/2 length of bursa copulatrix; introitus vaginae with thickened lateral margins and about as long as heavily spiculate section at posterior end of ductus bursae.
Female genitalia: Signum very large, spike <1/2 length of bursa copulatrix; introitus vaginae with thickened lateral margins and about as long as heavily spiculate section at posterior end of ductus bursae.
§3 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 10/07/2015; female; fw 6.1mm; to light
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 31/10/2012 (§1) | §2 added and text amended 09/04/2014 | §3 added 23/12/2015