PLUTELLIDAE in Australia Diamondback Moths YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

PLUTELLIDAE caterpillar

PLUTELLIDAE cocoon

PLUTELLIDAE moths

PLUTELLIDAE underside

Some taxonomists place this family as the subfamily PLUTELLINAE in YPONOMEUTIDAE, and sometimes this family is included in GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al, we list it as a separate family. Also some taxonomists place the genus Tritymba in BUCCULATRICIDAE, but again here, following Nielsen et al, we list it in PLUTELLIDAE.

So: the 27 named species of PLUTELLIDAE in Australia are :

Orthenches liparochroa
Orthenches pleurosticta

Phalangitis crymorrhoa
Phalangitis pellochroa
Phalangitis triaria
Phalangitis tumultuosa
Phalangitis veterana

Plutella xylostella : Cabbage Moth

Tonza purella

Tritymba acrospila

Tritymba aulophora
Tritymba dasybathra
Tritymba dianipha
Tritymba diatoma
Tritymba ochrocera
Tritymba pamphaea
Tritymba stichogramma
Tritymba xanthocoma

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(updated 31 May 2014, 25 June 2017, 8 June 2019, 14 August 2020, 28 August 2022)