Lepidoscia arctiella (Lepidoscia arctiella)

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Photo by Mark Ridgway

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Field Notes

Description:

This little moth larva builds it's case in stepped expanding segments from perfectly chosen and measured sticks on the host plant. In this case the host plant is a native cupressus.

Habitat:

In a small nature reserve in suburbia.

Notes:

Some call this a 'Tower casemoth' 
family: PSYCHIDAE 
genus: Lepidoscia 
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:40… http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/arctiella.html http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/species.php?region=1&id=78746

Reference Links:

Lepidoscia arctiella - Information on Lepidoscia arctiella, Tower Case Moth - Lepidoscia arctiella

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Comments (3)

Mark Ridgway

Yes Hema each time they choose to make another section they have developed a new sense of style. :-) Lori.tas found a wonderful spiralized version.. a close relative? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8691002

lori.tas

Nice spot. I'm waiting for our spiral towers to appear again. I saw a tiny one about a cm long last month, but nothing since.

HemaShah

Amazing!!Does this larva pick only brown colored sticks?

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Lepidoscia arctiella