coleophoran

English

Coleophora striatipennella, a species of coleophoran.

Etymology

From translingual Coleophora +‎ -an.

Adjective

coleophoran (comparative more coleophoran, superlative most coleophoran)

1. Of or related to moths of the genus Coleophora, whose larvae feed on seeds.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sibyl Bucheli, Jean-François Landry, John Wenzel, Larval case architecture and implications of host-plant associations for North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera; Coleophoridae):

     Outgroup analysis of other genera in Coleophoridae would indicate that the ancestral coleophoran case was a mined seed capsule (or floret) strengthened by silk and later enlarged by anal additions of silk, and the ancestral feeding condition was seed-mining of herbaceous plant families (Figures 6 and 7).

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Ohio Journal of Science‎^[1]:

     Observed causes of damage to the plants, most likely contributing to their mortality were, deer grazing, deer and human trampling with severe damage inflicted by a Coleophoran larvae that devoured the embryo of developing nutlets during the fruiting stage. Snails are also persistent herbivores. Similar effects were observed in 1985 but the Coleophoran larvae was not found on a single plant.