LECITHOCERIDAE of Australia
GELECHIOIDEA

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

(updated 9 September 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 and some in SYMMOCIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., they are treated as the separate family LECITHOCERIDAE.
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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