Coleophora gallivora

Coleophora gallivora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Coleophoridae
Genus:	Coleophora
Species:	C. gallivora
Binomial name
Coleophora gallivora Falkovitsh, 1970

Coleophora gallivora is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found in Turkestan and Uzbekistan.

The larvae feed on galls made by other insects (flies of the Cecidomyiidae family). They can be found on Arbuscula arbuscula, Arbuscula richteri and Haloxylon species. They create a silky case. There are four to five not very straight stripes extending along the case, which are sometimes contiguous at the anterior and posterior ends. These stripes are the same color as the case but smoother than the space between them and discernible only under high magnification on incomplete and not fully covered cases. The valve is three-sided. The length is about 6 mm. Larvae can be found from May to the beginning of June and again from the end of September to the beginning of October in at least two generations. Fully fed larvae hibernate.^[1]

References

1. Lepidopterous fauna of the USSR and adjacent countries