DEPRESSARIIDAE of Australia
GELECHIOIDEA

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

(updated 21 June 2008)

The Caterpillars of this family generally live in shelters made from leaves of their foodplants joined with silk. The family is often included in OECOPHORIDAE, but there are clear physiological differences between the DEPRESSARIIDAE and the OECOPHORIDAE, so it is here treated separately. The DEPRESSARIDAE are much commoner in the northern hemisphere than in the Australia, whereas the OECOPHORIDAE are much better represented in Australia.

The 72 described Australian species of DEPRESSARIIDAE are:

  • Barantola panarista
    Barantola pulcherrima

  • Bleptochiton leucotrigona

  • Cryptolechia anomarcha
  • Cryptolechia coriaria

  • Dolerimima hypoxantha

  • Eclecta aurorella

  • Ectaga garcia

  • Enchocrates glaucopis
  • Enchocrates phaedryntis
  • Enchocrates picrophylla

  • Enteremna dolerastis
  • Enteremna pallida

    Euprionocera geminipuncta

  • Eutorna diaula
  • Eutorna epicnephes
  • Eutorna eurygramma
  • Eutorna generalis
  • Eutorna intonsa
  • Eutorna leptographa
  • Eutorna pabulicola
  • Eutorna phaulocosma
  • Eutorna plumbeola
  • Eutorna spintherias
  • Eutorna tricasis
  • Eutorna rubida

  • Gymnoceros nipholeuca
  • Gymnoceros pallidula

  • Haereta cryphimaea
  • Haereta niphosceles

  • Heterobathra xiphosema

  • Lepidozancla zatrephes

  • Loboptila cyphoma
  • Loboptila leurodes

  • Machimia cyphopleura
  • Machimia dystheata

  • Mimozela rhoditis

  • Notosara acosmeta
  • Notosara nephelotis

  • Octasphales chorderes
  • Octasphales eubrocha

  • Pedois amaurophanes
  • Pedois anthracias
  • Pedois argillea
  • Pedois ceramora
  • Pedois cosmopoda
  • Pedois epinephela
  • Pedois haploceros
  • Pedois humerana
  • Pedois lewinella
  • Pedois lutea
  • Pedois raphidias
  • Pedois rhodomita
  • Pedois sarcinodes
  • Pedois tripunctella

  • Peritornenta bacchata
  • Peritornenta circulatella
  • Peritornenta lissopis
  • Peritornenta minans
  • Peritornenta rhodophanes
  • Peritornenta stigmatias
  • Peritornenta thyellia

    Psorosticha zizyphi

    Scorpiopsis pyrobola

  • Scorpiopsis rhodoglauca

  • Thalamarchella alveola
  • Thalamarchella aneureta
  • Thalamarchella robinsoni

  • Thyromorpha stibaropis

  • Tonica effractella
    Tonica species

  • unplaced paroospila

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