1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Biologie

2.1. Nahrung der Raupe

• [Caryophyllaceae:] Silene virginica [Typenzucht]

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Synonyme

• Coleophora apicella Braun, 1919 [Homonym zu C. apicella Stainton, 1858]

3.2. Typenmaterial

Braun (1919: 109): “Locality: Cincinnati, Ohio. Type (♀) and paratypes (two males, seven females) in the writer's collection.”

(Autor: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.3. Literatur

• Beschreibung als Coleophora apicella: Braun, F. (1919): Descriptions of New Species of Coleophora (Microlepidoptera). — Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 30: 108-112, 127-131. [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
• Nomen novum: Braun, A. F. (1920): Coleophora apicialbella nom. nov. (Microlepid.). — Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 31: 55. [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
• Landry, J.-F. & B. Wright (1993): Systematics of the Nearctic species of metallic-green Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae). — The Canadian Entomologist 125 (3): 549-618.