| (previously known as Narycia cataphracta) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris,
Morwell Park, Victoria)
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| (previously known as Narycia cataphracta) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris,
Morwell Park, Victoria)
These Caterpillars live and pupate in a tapering cylindrical case with an oblique aperture. They camouflage the case with their food plants:
The adult male and female moths are white with black zigzag lines. They have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 178.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1893), p. 504, No. 32.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 17 March 2011, 15 August 2019, 28 November 2020)