LYONETIIDAE of Australia
 Stem Borers
 YPONOMEUTOIDEA
 
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

LYONETIIDAE

caterpillars
  
LYONETIIDAE

pupae
  
LYONETIIDAE

moths

The family LYONETIIDAE is included by some taxonomists in the family BUCCULATRICIDAE. Other taxonomists have split its sub-families apart into the separate families CEMIOSTOMIDAE and BEDELLIIDAE. Here we follow the taxonomy of Nielsen, Edwards and Rangsi, in which Australia has 40 named species in LYONETIIDAE:

  • Arctocoma ursinella

    Atalopsycha atyphella

    Bedellia somnulentella : Sweet Potato Leaf Miner
    Bedellia yasumatsui

  • Crobylophora chrysidiella
    Crobylophora daricella
  • Crobylophora psammosticta

    Dascia sagittifera

  • Diplothectis chionochalca

    Hierocrobyla lophocera
    Hierocrobyla sporodectis

  • Leioprora ascepta

  • Leucoptera acromelas
  • Leucoptera arethusa
  • Leucoptera argodes
  • Leucoptera argyroptera
  • Leucoptera asbolopasta
  • Leucoptera chalcopleura
  • Leucoptera chalocycla
  • Leucoptera deltidias
  • Leucoptera diasticha
  • Leucoptera euryphaea
  • Leucoptera hemizona
  • Leucoptera iolitha
  • Leucoptera melanolitha
  • Leucoptera periphracta
  • Leucoptera phaeopasta
    Leucoptera plagiomitra
  • Leucoptera sortita
    Leucoptera spartifoliella : Twig Mining Moth
  • Leucoptera strophidota

  • Lyonetia embolotypa
  • Lyonetia lechrioscia
  • Lyonetia penthesilea
  • Lyonetia photina
  • Lyonetia scriptifera

    Stegommata leptomitella : Hakea leaf miner

  • Stegommata hesperias
    Stegommata sulfuratella : Banksia leaf miner

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    (updated 31 May 2014, 18 March 2019)