Coleophora serpylletorum Hering, 1889
cliff case-bearer

from Toll (1962a)
case
Larvae in an untidy composite leaf case of c. 9 mm with a mouth angle of 90°.
The larva mines a leaf, usually at the top of a twig, completely out, often while attached to the leaf margin. When the leaf is emptied it is cut off and forms the newest addition to the case.
host plants
Lamiaceae, monophagous
Thymus odoratissimus, praecox, serpyllum.
The larvae refused to eat from Th. pulegioides, a species with larger leaves (Emmet ao, 1996a).
phenology
Larvae are full fed in June (Emmet ao, 1996a).
BENELUX
BE not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2010).
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
distribution within Europe
From Denmark and Latvia tot Spain, Sardinia, Italy, and Greece, and from Britain to Romania; also North Russia (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
larva
See Emmet ao (1969a).
references
Baldizzone (1979a, 1983c, 2004a), Baldizzone & Hartig (1978a), Baldizzone & Luquet (1981a), Biesenbaum & van der Wolf (1999a), Buhr (1937a), Corley, Merckx, Cardoso, Dale,Marabuto, Maravalhas & Pires (2012a), Emmet, Langmaid, Bland ao (1996a), Hering (1957a), Ivinskis & Savenkov (1991a), Kaltenbach & Roesler (1985a), Klimesch (1958c), Kuchlein & Donner (1993a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Michaelis (1983a), van Nieukerken, Gielis, Huisman ao (1993a), Patzak (1974a), Pröse (1995a), Razowski (1990a), Suire (1961a), Szőcs (1977a, 1981a), Toll (1952a, 1962a), Wieser & Huemer (1999a).