Coleophora virgatella

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| taxon = Coleophora virgatella

| authority = Zeller, 1849[https://web.archive.org/web/20121012174212/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435858 Fauna Europaea]

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Coleophora virgatella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from Germany and Poland to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece. It has also been recorded from southern Russia and central Asia.

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Adults are on wing from late June to July.[http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ENT_0019_0033-0044.pdf The Casebearers of the Volga-Ural inter-river region (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)]

The larvae feed on Salvia glutinosa, Salvia pratensis and Stachys species.{{Cite web |url=https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/coleophoridae/coleophora/coleophora-virgatella/ |title=Coleophora virgatella |access-date=11 August 2020 |website=Plant Parasites of Europe}} Larvae can be found from autumn to May of the following year.