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Coleophora saturatella

Checklist Number
37.042 [B&F: 0545]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Coleophoridae
Subfamily:Coleophorinae
Genus:Coleophora
Species:saturatella
Authority:Stainton, 1850

Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) on heathland, open woodland and rough pastures in parts of south-eastern England. In Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight recorded very occasionally, and reported from Blackbushe Airfield in the north in 2020. Wingspan 12-15 mm. The main confusion species is C. genistae, but that species has the ground colour of the forewing paler and more ochreous and the costal streak reaching almost to the apex (MBGBI Vol 3). Larva mines leaves of Broom and Dyer's Greenweed, living within a movable case; case length 8 mm.

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
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

Records by week (larval)

VC10 Isle of Wight

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Cranmore (SZ38)1900-K G BlairLarval
Shalfleet (SZ48)1900-W FassnidgeAdult
Shalfleet (SZ48)1929-H G JefferyAdult

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
North Solent NNR (SZ49)23/06/1990-J R Langmaid, D H SterlingCase
North Solent NNR (SZ49)04/06/1991-J R Langmaid, D H Sterling, R J B HoareCase
North Solent NNR (SZ49)02/06/1992-J R Langmaid, D J L Agassiz, A M EmmetCase
Botley Wood (SU51)29/08/2001oneRichard J DicksonCase
Ashurst, NF (SU31)29/05/2011oneKeith GodfreyAdult

VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Blackbushe Airfield (SU85)08/06/2020threeJosie HewittLarval
Blackbushe Airfield (SU85)02/07/2020fourJosie HewittLarval
Blackbushe Airfield (SU85)19/11/2020oneJosie HewittLarval
Long Valley, Fleet (SU85)02/01/2021oneTony DavisCase