Twisted Tower Casemoth PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Wendy Moore,
Freshwater Creek, Victoria)
This Caterpillar covers its case with rings of equal length sticks. Each ring is bigger than the previous one, so that the case is tapered to a narrow anal tip, like Lepidoscia arctiella, except that for this speciemen: the rings are slanting, giving a twisted left-handed helical appearance. The case had a length of about 3 cms.
The caterpillar was found on
in
Because the case tapers: the caterpillar is thought to be a Lepidoscia species.
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(written 5 June 2023, updated 21 July 2024)