''Coleophora wockeella'' is a
moth of the family
Coleophoridae. It is found from
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
to the
Iberian Peninsula,
Italy and
Albania and from
Great Britain to southern
Russia.
The
wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July in western Europe.
The larvae feed on betony (''
Stachys officinalis
''Betonica officinalis'' ( syn. ''Stachys officinalis''), commonly known as common hedgenettle, betony, purple betony, wood betony, bishopwort, or bishop's wort, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, wes ...
'').
Larvae can be found from autumn to mid-May.
Etymology
The species was named after the German entomologist
Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke
Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke (27 November 1820, Breslau – 7 November 1906) was a German entomologist, specialising in Lepidoptera.
He was an apothecary and physician.
Selected works
* with Otto Staudinger
Otto Staudinger (2 May 1830 – ...
.
References
wockeella
Moths described in 1849
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
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