Undetermined Psychidae AQ PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

drawing by John O. Westwood,
Descriptions of some species of Lepidopterous insects belonging to the genus Oiketicus,
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 22 (1854), Plate Annulosa XXXIV, fig. 7,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

This Caterpillar covers its case with sticks set approximately at right angles to the case axis. The case can grow to a length of up to 4 cms.

Further reading :

John O. Westwood,
Descriptions of some species of Lepidopterous insects belonging to the genus Oiketicus,
Proceedings of The Zoological Society of London,
Part 22 (1854), p. 234, and also Plate 34, fig. 7

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(written 9 September 2017)