Coleophora striolatella
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Coleophora striolatella is a moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

 of the Coleophoridae
Coleophoridae
| name = Case-bearers| image = Coleophoridae-01 .jpg| image_width = 240px| image_caption = Adult of an unidentified case-bearer species| regnum = Animalia| phylum = Arthropoda| classis = Insecta| ordo = Lepidoptera| superfamilia = Gelechioidea...

 family. It is found from southern France
France
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 to Italy
Italy
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 and from Hungary
Hungary
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 to Spain
Spain
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.

The larvae feed on Linum narbonense
Linum narbonense
Linum narbonense , is a flowering plant in the family Linaceae, native to Europe, and similar in appearance to Linum perenne....

. They create a slender tubular silken case with a moth angle of about 10°. Full-grown cases are found in April and May.
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