Psychidae (family) IMMATURE
Unidentified case moth or bagworm at Cotter River, ACT
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| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | GlennCocking | 1 May 2022 | |
| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | ibaird | 26 Dec 2021 | |
| Unverified | SWishart | 26 Dec 2021 |
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User's notes
The case was around 4 cm, maybe certainly not very large. Caterpillar was pretty energetic except when I placed it (gently) on the track for a better photo at which point it refused to come out until I put it back in the grass.
3 comments
27 Dec 2021
Larval pattern on the head and thorax resembles that of
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/psychae.html
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/psychae.html
27 Dec 2021
Hope you can rear it to the adult to identify the species. Could you tell what it was eating?
27 Dec 2021
Sorry, it was on the stockyard spur management trail off Mt Franklin Road in the Brindabellas so we left it where we found it. The trail is quite grassy between the wheel tracks around there possibly poa but I'm not sure.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.787577-35.553747
- Altitude 1694.5m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Dec 2021 01:06 PM Recorded on
- SWishart Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- SWishart Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Psychidae (family) IMMATURE Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Psychidae (family) IMMATURE Scientific name
- Unidentified case moth or bagworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1694.5m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Psychidae sp.
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