Jumble Casemoth PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Diana Davey,
Wooli, New South Wales)
These caterpillars decorate their cases with a jumble of short knobbly bits of twig.
The caterpillars have been found feeding on
The cases reached a length of about 1 cm.
For the adult male moth to emerge : the pupa is extruded from the anal end of the case.
The adult male moths of this species have dark brown forewings, each with ragged white markings including a ragged white band across the middle.
The hindwings of the male are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms. The top of the head has a pale tuft of scales.
The females are dark brown and exit from the larval case in a similar fashion to the males The females have no wings, and are flightless.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1921), p. 476.
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(written 21 July 2024, updated 25 July 2022)