Coleophora oriolella Zeller, 1849
on Dorycnium, Lotus, Securigera
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.
host plants
Fabaceae, oligophagous
Coronilla; Dorycnium hirsutum, pentaphyllum & subsp. germanicum, rectum; Lotus; Securigera varia.
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 mistakenly 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, 2020a), 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), Šumpich & Liška (2018a), Szőcs (1977a), Toll (1952a).