Australian LECITHOCERIDAE

LECITHOCERIDAE of Australia
Tropical Longhorned Moths
GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

LECITHOCERIDAE

eggs

LECITHOCERIDAE

moths

LECITHOCERIDAE

underside

Many caterillars of species in this family are densely covered in branched hairs, and feed of dead leaves of plants from families such as MYRTACEAE, POACEAE, and PROTEACEAE.

The species in this family have been previously been placed in the family GELICHIIDAE and some in SYMMOCIDAE, or AUTOSTICHIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., they are treated as the separate family LECITHOCERIDAE.
The 49 named Australian species that are placed in LECITHOCERIDAE are:

Achoria inopina

Aprosoesta pancala

Cophomantella lychnocentra

Crocanthes acroxantha
Crocanthes characotis
Crocanthes chordotona
Crocanthes diula

Crocanthes doliopa

Crocanthes epitherma
Crocanthes glycina
Crocanthes halurga
Crocanthes micradelpha
Crocanthes perigrapta
Crocanthes prasinopis
Crocanthes pyrochorda
Crocanthes sidonia