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

Cophomantella lychnocentra

Crocanthes acroxantha
Crocanthes characotis
Crocanthes chordotona
Crocanthes diula

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

Crocanthes thiomorpha
Crocanthes trizona

Crocanthes zonias
Crocanthes zonodesma

Lecithocera chamela
Lecithocera concinna
Lecithocera cyamitis

Lecithocera eumenopis
Lecithocera imprudens

Lecithocera linocoma
Lecithocera micromela

Lecithocera terrena
Lecithocera terrigena

Oecia oecophila

Protolychnis trigonias

Sarisophora dispila
Sarisophora leptoglypta

Sarisophora pycnospila
Sarisophora tenella

Sisyrodonta ochrosidera

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(updated 19 July 2015, 4 November 2023)