Coleophoridae
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Coleophoridae

description: <i>29. Coleophoridae – coleophorid moths</i> Minute to small (8–15 mm wingspan), narrow-winged moths. Most adults have lightcolored or metallic green wings (Coleophorinae), black and white patterned wings (Momphinae), or gray and black wings (Blastobasinae). Th ey are similar superficially to the Gracillariidae and Batrachedridae. Larvae have diverse feedings habits; many are casebearers and feed on leaves, flowers, and seeds (Coleophorinae); others feed on various plant parts or are scavengers. A few are opportunistic predators. The family Coleophoridae includes several lineages that were recently considered to be separate families. Th e subfamily Coleophorinae comprises over 1000 described species, primarily in the genus <i>Coleophora</i>. Th e subfamily Momphinae comprises 60 described species, primarily in the genus <i>Mompha</i>. Th e subfamily Blastobasinae comprises 300 described species. All three of these subfamilies are particularly diverse in the Nearctic region, and all are in need of revision. Many new species remain to be described, particularly in the subfamily Coleophorinae. Hodges (1999a) reported that only 20%–25% of Nearctic species had been described. A fourth subfamily, the Pterolonchinae, comprises eight species, all from the Old World; one has been introduced to North America as a biological control agent of knapweed (<i>Centaurea</i> spp.; Compositae). Two hundred and sixty-seven species of Coleophoridae are known in North America; 39 species are reported in AB. Few AB specimens have been examined in detail by experts, so the fauna is poorly known. Few recent taxonomic works exist for the Coleophoridae. Landry and Wright (1993) revised the metallic green <i>Coleophora</i>; McDunnough (1958) and J.-F. Landry (1998a) provided many excellent illustrations of several <i>Coleophora</i> species. Adamski and Brown (1989) provided a higher-level systematic treatment of the Blastobasinae, and Adamski and Hodges (1996) published a nomenclature review and a checklist for the North American Blastobasinae.
description: Published as part of <i>Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian &amp; Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38)</i> on page 75, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
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