Coleophora discordella
Wingspan 11 to 13 mm. The adult is a buff or brown colour with a white costal streak and some other smaller white streaks.
Adult 
cased larva/mine 
Places where bird's-foot-trefoil species are plentiful.
It flies in June and July.
The larva feeds on bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus spp.), building a pistol-like case from silk and excised pieces of leaf.
A fairly common species occurring widely throughout the British Isles in a range of habitats where the foodplant is to be found. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
It appears to be uncommon or under recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland, the Ullesthorpe specimen of 15th June 2015 is only the 4th record for VC55. L&R Moth Group status = D (rare or rarely recorded).
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
confirmed by gen det
sue
Moira, Rawdon East Country Park, grassland by angling pool
16 August 2023
on Bird's-foot Trefoil
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
confirmed by gen det
sue
Moira, Rawdon East Country Park, grassland by angling pool
16 August 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Lotus Case-bearer
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Coleophoridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 15/06/2015 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 16/08/2023 (Timms, Sue)
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