Coleophora glaucicolella

Coleophora glaucicolella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae, found in Asia, Europe and North America.

It occurs in forest-steppe biotopes, wet meadows and meadow-steppe.

Forewings pale and often yellowish or ochreous – tinged, usually with darker greyish streaks between veins towards costa.

Only reliably identified by dissection and microscopic examination of the genitalia.

[1] Adults are on wing from June to August at sunrise, dusk and night.

Coleophora glaucicolella , Trawscoed, North Wales Male genitalia