• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Mass Moths on iNaturalist

Mass Moths

Mass Moths

Welcome to Mass Moths – The Place to go for information on Massachusetts Moths

  • Home
  • Species List
    • View Species List
    • Species List Info
  • Search
  • Community
    • How to participate and submit records
    • Moth Identification
    • Thanks
  • Summarized Project Data
  • About
  • Contact

Moths navigation

<< Previous Species:
Coleophora triplicis
Next Species:
Coleophora texanella
>>
Gelechioidea >> Coleophoridae >> Coleophorinae >> Coleophora

Coleophora puberuloides

McDunnough, 1956

Sort #: 685 | P3 #: 421593 | MPG #: 1335
| View on iNaturalist | BOLD Link

Larval feeding type: Seed feeder, in a tubular silk trivalve case
Larval substrate: Solidago puberula (Downy Goldenrod), Solidago rugosa (Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod)
Phenology: Adult: 8/21 (1 record)

Comment: WS 9-11mm; tentatively on the MA list, based on one specimen id'd by DNA and one observation of cases being found on S. puberula. DNA cannot be used conclusively with this group of species

Status in MA (automated assessment): Restricted distribution, rare
Status in N. America: Native
MA Endangered Species Act status: None
First Year Reported: 1973
Last Year Reported: 2022

Distribution by County: Middlesex, Bristol
Number of Records: 1

Copyright © 2023 MassMoths · Log in