37.096 Coleophora gardesanella (Small Streaked Case-bearer)
ws: 9.5-11.0mm; Jun-Aug; sea wormwood (Artemesia maritima) on sea-walls and drier parts of saltmarsh; sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) in damp meadows and marshes and moist woodland rides; mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris), (Achillea millefolium), tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) on dry grassland near the sea; SE.England from Essex to Hampshire.
Coleophora gardesanella §1 female
ID: Forewing with longitudinal white/pale streaks, with oblique streaks on or between veins extending to costa and without scattered fuscous scales >25 species
Female genitalia: Ductus bursae without a spiculate section but with a sclerotised introitus vaginae and a sclerotised section of the ductus bursae; ostium bursae narrow, incision in posterior margin of subgenital plate not extending to half length of subgenital plate, introitus vaginae approximately same width as ductus bursae.
Female genitalia: Ductus bursae without a spiculate section but with a sclerotised introitus vaginae and a sclerotised section of the ductus bursae; ostium bursae narrow, incision in posterior margin of subgenital plate not extending to half length of subgenital plate, introitus vaginae approximately same width as ductus bursae.
Dissection
Female genitalia
§1 Foulness, Essex; 08/08/2010; female
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published November 2011 (§1)
