🦋 Family

Psychidae

19 species · Animals

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Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Psychidae

Lepidoscia heliochares (Meyrick, 1893)

Lepidoscia heliochares is a Psychidae moth, native to Australia and found in New Zealand since 1974.

Lepidoscia protorna (Meyrick, 1893)

Lepidoscia protorna is a Psychidae moth native to Australia, found in New Zealand since 1978.

Cebysa leucotelus Walker, 1854

Cebysa leucotelus, the Australian lichen bag moth, is a Psychidae species found in Australia and New Zealand, whose larvae eat lichen and algae.

Liothula omnivora Fereday, 1878

Liothula omnivora, the common bag moth, is an endemic New Zealand psychid moth with multiple Māori names.

Clania ignobilis (Walker, 1869)

Clania ignobilis, the faggot case moth, is a winged-male wingless-female moth species found across southern Australia.

Eumeta variegatus (Snellen, 1879)

Eumeta variegata is a sexually dimorphic polyphagous pest with distinct wing development in each sex that attacks multiple cultivated plants.

Metura elongatus (Saunders, 1847)

Metura elongatus, also called Saunders' case moth or large bagworm, is a Psychidae family moth found in eastern Australia including Tasmania.

Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haworth, 1803)

Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis, the evergreen bagworm, is a common North American moth pest that feeds on over 100 tree species.

Thyridopteryx meadii Edwards, 1881

Thyridopteryx meadii, the creosote bagworm moth, feeds on creosote bush and lives across the Mojave Desert region of the southwestern US.

Cryptothelea gloverii (Packard, 1869)

Cryptothelea gloverii is a bagworm moth native to North and Central America that feeds on camphor scale insects and favors orange trees.

Canephora hirsuta (Poda, 1761)

Canephora hirsuta, the hairy sweep, is a European Psychidae moth with wingless females, active May to July.

Apterona helicoidella (Vallot, 1827)

Apterona helicoidella (snailcase bagworm) is a Psychidae moth, native to much of Europe and introduced to US mid-Atlantic states.

Oiketicus kirbyi Guilding, 1827

Oiketicus kirbyi is a wingless-female bagworm moth found across the Americas, whose larvae feed on many cultivated plants.

Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767)

Psyche casta is a nocturnal Old World bagworm moth introduced to North America, active from May to July.

Trigonocyttara clandestina Turner, 1945

Trigonocyttara clandestina is the only species in the genus Trigonocyttara, a Psychidae moth found in Australia.

Taleporia tubulosa (Retzius, 1783)

Taleporia tubulosa, the large birch bright, is a small nocturnal bagworm moth found across Europe to western Russia.

Brachycyttarus griseus Joannis, 1929

Brachycyttarus griseus, the grass bagworm, is a Psychidae moth native to Southeast Asia, introduced to Guam and Hawaii.

Epichnopterix plumella (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1775

Epichnopterix plumella is a European bagworm moth, with flightless females and caterpillars that make protective silk sacks.

Arrhenophanes perspicilla (Stoll, 1790)

Arrhenophanes perspicilla is an Arrhenophanidae moth found across most lowland Neotropical Region.

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