Cases of Australian PSYCHIDAE

Some Caterpillar cases of PSYCHIDAE in Australia
Bagworms, Case Moths
TINEOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

PSYCHIDAE

caterpillars

PSYCHIDAE

pupae

PSYCHIDAE

males

PSYCHIDAE

females

PSYCHIDAE

undersides

It is a normal taxonomic belief that each of the 350 Australian named species in PSYCHIDAE not only have unique DNA, but have adults with unique colour patterns, and unique wing venations, and unique genitalia. So it is tempting to believe that the structural pattern of external attachments to the larval case of each PSYCHIDAE species is unique. Following that idea, we present here the few known larval cases of some species that have been identified by rearing and determining the species of the adult, and also the larval cases that have been found to differ from these, and from each other, in some unique way, and suggest that these are all from distinct but as yet undetermined species, but from which no adults have yet been reared for further identification.

Bathromelas hyaloscopa Buloke Bagworm	Cebysa leucotelus Australian Bagmoth	Clania ignobilis Faggot Case Moth	Clania lewinii Stick Case Moth
*Conoeca guildingi*	*Dappula tertius*	Hyalarcta huebneri Leaf Case Moth	Hyalarcta nigrescens Ribbed Case Moth
Lepidoscia arctiella Tower Case Moth	*Lomera boisduvalii*	*Lomera xanthochrysa*	*Lomera zophopepla*
Lomera species	*Metura aristocosma*	Metura elongatus Saunders' Case Moth	*Metura falcata*
*Metura phyllosacca*	*Oecobia frauenfeldi*	Oiketicus herrichii Smooth Case Moth	*Piestoceros conjunctella*

Sentica felderi

Trigonocyttara clandestina
Less-stick Case Moth

Cases of other possible unidentified PSYCHIDAE species -

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(updated 2 June 2014, 10 January 2024)

Undetermined species AA Wattle Case Moth	Undetermined species AB	Undetermined species AC	Undetermined species AD
Undetermined species AE	Undetermined species AF Faggot Pyramid Case Moth	Undetermined species AG Pyramid Casemoth	Undetermined species AH Twisted Pyramid Case Moth
Undetermined species AI Bootlace Casemoth	Undetermined species AJ	Undetermined species AK	Undetermined species AL
Undetermined species AM	Undetermined species AN Temple Casemoth	Undetermined species AO	Undetermined species AP
Undetermined species AQ	Undetermined species AR	Undetermined species AS	Undetermined species AT Telephone Casemoth
Undetermined species AU	Undetermined species AV	Undetermined species AW	Undetermined species AX Pipe Casemoth
Undetermined species AY Flaky Casemoth	Undetermined species AZ Neat Casemoth	Undetermined species BA	Undetermined species BB
Undetermined species BC Bark Casemoth	Hyalarcta species	Lepidoscia species A	Lepidoscia species B