Less-stick Case Moth at Franklin, ACT
Identification history
| Trigonocyttara clandestina | 11 Jan 2025 | ibaird | ||
| Trigonocyttara clandestina | 11 Jan 2025 | donhe | ||
| Lepidoscia (genus) IMMATURE | 8 Nov 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Conoeca or Lepidoscia (genera) IMMATURE | 7 Nov 2024 | chriselidie |
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User's notes
Found on plant, not seen feeding yet.
7 comments
chriselidie
wrote:
7 Nov 2024
It has started eating now: ignored the foliage and eats all parts of the flower.
donhe
wrote:
8 Nov 2024
black and white pattern on head an thorax : consistent with Lepidoscia, not Conoeca.
donhe
wrote:
8 Nov 2024
@chriselidie : any chance you can take it into protective custody and rear it to an adult moth to get a proper ID ?
chriselidie
wrote:
8 Nov 2024
Thanks donhe, and yes I have taken it in - will see what happens next. I read though that often females of these can't be observed as they remain in the case their whole life?
donhe
wrote:
8 Nov 2024
If it is the Australian Conoeca species, and for several Lepidoscia species, both the females and males have wings, and emerge from the case.
chriselidie
wrote:
10 Jan 2025
Caterpillar of moth in sighting 4636716. This was confirmed as Trigonocyttara clandestina.
Location information
- Places Franklin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- chriselidie Recorded by
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chriselidie NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Trigonocyttara clandestina Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Geraldton Wax Associated plant
- None Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Trigonocyttara clandestina Scientific name
- Less-stick Case Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 813.69m Recorded at altitude
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