Coleophora amellivora

Coleophora amellivora Baldizzone, 1979

from Toll (1952a); upper case of a male, lower one of a female

Aster alpinus, from Baran & Rynarzewski (2008a)

case

Greyish brown, trivalved tubular leaf case with a mouth angle of 20-45°. The larva mines in the lower leaves. After the case has been tightened to the leaf, the larva, otherwise than in most other Coleophora‘s, leaves it case, and makes from this starting point a long corridor mines.