Coleophora protecta

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| taxon = Coleophora protecta

| authority = Walsingham, 1907

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|Coleophora pseudoserenella|Toll, 1952

|Coleophora fatmella|Toll, 1956

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Coleophora protecta is a moth of the family Coleophoridae described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1907. It is found in Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.[https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/455/45513705.pdf Catalogo Mundial Sistematico y de Distribucion de la Familia Coleophoridae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924083736/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=45513705 |date=2012-09-24 }}

The larvae feed on Tragacantha armata and Tragacantha karakalensis. They feed on the leaves of their host plant.{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1134%2FS0013873806030031 | doi=10.1134/S0013873806030031 | title=Host-plant relationships of the casebearers (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae): Communication III | date=2006 | last1=Falkovitsh | first1=M. I. | journal=Entomological Review | volume=86 | issue=3 | pages=264–286 }}