from Toll (1962a)

case

Tubular silken case, up to 8 mm long. Behind the mouth the case is sharply bent; as a result the mouth angle is 0° and is the case aprressed to the substrate.

hostplants

Asteraceae, narrowly oligophagous

Galatella linosyris, sedifolia; Tripolium pannonicum subsp. tripolium.

phenology

Larve mines only till April (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

From Germany to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Britain to Romania (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

synonyms

Coleophora nicaeella Chrétien, 1908.

references

Baldizzone (1979c), Baldizzone & Luquet (1981a), Baldizzone, Tokár, Z & S Kovács (2004a), Biesenbaum & van der Wolf (1999a), Emmet, Langmaid, Bland ao (1996a), Heal & Uffen (1981a), Heckford & Beavan (2013a), Hering (1957a), Huber (1969a), Nel (1992b), Suire (1961a), Szőcs (1977a), Toll (1962a).

08/02/2017