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Glasswort Case-bearer Coleophora salicorniae

I first saw this species in Norfolk but it was during an event and someone else trapped the moth and took it away to confirm the ID, so I didn't get any photos or really learn much about the species. So when I finally found another one it was like finding a new moth. I suspected the ID in the field, but I felt it was worth confirming that it didn't have the spines at the base of the abdomen shown by the fairly similar Coleophora clypeiferella.

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male Glasswort Case-bearer Coleophora salicorniae showing base of abdomen and genitalia (closed and open), Cooper Street, near Ash (Kent, UK), 17th July 2026