Undetermined Psychidae AG
Smooth Casemoth
 PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Manly, New South Wales)

These Caterpillars live and pupate in a smooth unribbed silken case which is not decorated like most PSYCHIDAE, but is cigar shaped to accommodate the animal inside. The caterpillar was feeding on

  • Brush Box (Lophostemon confertus, MYRTACEAE).

    The case grew to a length of about 4 cms.

    The species has been found in

  • New South Wales.

    Further reading :

    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), p. 232, and also Plate 37, fig. 3.

    Edward Meyrick & Oswald B. Lower,
    Revision of the Australian Psychidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 31 (1907), p. 194.

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    (updated 15 October 2001, 27 July 2024)