Coleophora enchitis Meyrick, 1920

Baldizzone, Giorgio & Van Der Wolf, Hugo W., 2020, On the taxonomy of Afrotropical Coleophoridae (III). New or little known species from Central and Oriental Africa (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae), Zootaxa 4763 (2), pp. 151-174 : 152

Coleophora enchitis Meyrick, 1920 (= C. ptilocharis Meyrick, 1938 )

Literature: Meyrick, 1920: 91 (description of C. enchitis ), 1938: 22 (description of C. ptilocharis ); Viette, 1951 (species described by Meyrick deposited in MNHN); Baldizzone, 1979 (imago, genitalia ♂); Baldizzone et al., 2006 (World Catalogue, synonymy); Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2015 (lectotype, imago, genitalia ♂ and ♀, bionomy, larval case).

Bionomy: Larvae on the seedheads of Trifolium semipilosum (Fabaceae) . Distribution: Congo, Kenya.