©  Jean-FranHois Landry, 2003.                    Male

©  Jean-FranHois Landry, 2003.                      Female

©  Jean-FranHois Landry, 2003.     One case                        Multiple cases on the foodplant, Xyris.

This species is dinstinguished from the very similar cratipennella by two distinctive features:
        1.  the small patches of dark scales seen on the forewing (below), and . . .

                        ©  Jean-FranHois Landry, 2003.
        2.  distinctive genitalia, which includes a very visible ovipositor in the female (below), unlike any
                other Coleophora species

                        ©  Jean-FranHois Landry, 2003.