LECITHOCERIDAE of Australia
GELECHIOIDEA
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 6 June 2008)
Many caterillars of species in this family are
densely covered in branched hairs,
and feed of dead leaves of plants from families such as
MYRTACEAE,
POACEAE, and
PROTEACEAE.
The species in this family have been previously been
placed in the family
GELICHIIDAE, but
here, following
Nielsen et al., they are treated as a separate family.
The 47 named Australian species that are placed
in LECITHOCERIDAE are:
Achoria inopina
Cophomantella lychnocentra
Crocanthes acroxantha
Crocanthes characotis
Crocanthes chordotona
Crocanthes diula
Crocanthes doliopa
Crocanthes epitherma
Crocanthes glycina
Crocanthes halurga
Crocanthes micradelpha
Crocanthes pancala
Crocanthes perigrapta
Crocanthes prasinopis
Crocanthes sidonia
Crocanthes thermobapta
Crocanthes thiomorpha
Crocanthes trizona
Crocanthes venustula
Crocanthes zonias
Crocanthes zonodesma
Lecithocera absumptella
Lecithocera alampes
Lecithocera anympha
Lecithocera chamela
Lecithocera concinna
Lecithocera cyamitis
Lecithocera eumenopis
Lecithocera imprudens
Lecithocera isophanes
Lecithocera linocoma
Lecithocera micromela
Lecithocera noseropa
Lecithocera poliocoma
Lecithocera sobria
Lecithocera terrena
Lecithocera terrigena
Oecia oecophila
Protolychnis trigonias
Sarisophora brachymita
Sarisophora chlaenota
Sarisophora cyclonotis
Sarisophora dispila
Sarisophora leptoglypta
Sarisophora leucoscia
Sarisophora nyctiphylax
Sarisophora pycnospila
Sarisophora tenella
Sisyrodonta ochrosidera
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