Coleophora oriolella Zeller, 1849

cases of C. siliquella (top) and C. mongetella, both synonyms of oriolella; from Toll (1962a)

case

The larva feeds on the seeds, living in a case that is derived from an emptied pod.

hostplants

Fabaceae, oligophagous

Coronilla; Dorycnium pentaphyllum & subsp. germanicum, rectum.

phenology

Larvae from autumn till May.

BENELUX

Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2010).

distribution within Europe

From Germany and Poland to the Iberian Peninsula, Sardinia, Sicily, and Greece, and from France to South Russia (Fauna Europaea, 2010).

larva

Chrétien (1900a) describes the larva of his mongetella as: almost globular, white, head and pronotum light brown. See also Nel (1994b).

synonyms

Coleophora mongetella Chrétien, 1900; C. siliquella Constant, 1893.

notes

While describing his oriolella, Zeller mistakingly associated the adult with a case of what was stated to resemble the one of the present C. colutella. The resulting confusion has been long lasting. It also occasioned the incorrect inclusion of this species, a seed eater, in Hering’s 1957 book. Only in 1977 Jaeckh & Baldizzone (1977a) discovered the solution.

references

Baldizzone (1978c, 1979a,c, 1983c, 1990b), Baldizzone & Hartig (1978a), Baldizzone & Luquet (1981a), Baldizzone & van der Wolf (2000a), Baldizzone, van der Wolf & Landry (2006a), Biesenbaum (2011a), Chrétien (1900a), Hering (1957a), Jaeckh & Baldizzone (1977a), Kaltenbach & Roesler (1985a), Kasy (1983a), Nel (1991a, 1992b,c, 1994b), Patzak (1974b), Razowski (1990a), Suire (1961a), Szőcs (1977a), Toll (1952a).