Stick Case Moth - Clania lewinii

Family Psychidae

This page contains information and pictures about Stick Case Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Case length 30mm  

 

This species makes cylindrical case with parallel attached sticks. Those sticks are the same thickness but variable length.  However those sticks do not much longer than the silk back. 

 

 

 

We found this Case moth bag attached to a large Gum tree trunk. The caterpillar live inside the case. The second picture shows a moth had emerged through the bottom opening and left the empty shell.

 

 

Dec 2007, Karawatha Forest 

 

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Reference:

1. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p179.

2. Clania lewinii - Caterpillars of Australian Moths - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2007.

3. REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN PSYCHIDAE - MEYRICK. E and LOWER O B. (1907) Clania tenuis. 

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