Cebysa leucotelus
Australian Bagmoth at Monash, ACT
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| Cebysa leucotelus | ibaird | 18 Dec 2024 | |
| Cebysa leucotelus | donhe | 18 Dec 2024 | |
| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | DianneClarke | 18 Dec 2024 | |
| Unverified | debhart | 17 Dec 2024 |
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What I thought was some dirt when cleaning out the pool, turned out to be some type of lifeform! It seems to be ok although I guess it was in the pool for sometime.
5 comments
18 Dec 2024
Beautiful photos of the head and thorax. Could you determine what sort of material it used to cover its case : bark, leaves, rusty bits of iron ? Can you take it into protective custody and rear it to get an adult moth for an ID ?
18 Dec 2024
@donhe thankyou! The case was covered in bits of vegetation type material. I don’t recall any rusty bits of iron that I could see. Unfortunately I left it out to dry and it has moved on overnight. I’d be interested to know about protective custody and how to do it for any future findings though!
18 Dec 2024
Protective custody: see
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/faqs/care.html
"Remember that if nature is in balance, then every pair of adults will produce only 2 viable adults in the next generation. Say if a female lays say 400 eggs (a typical number), of which, say, 200 hatch successfully into caterpillars, then on average 198 of these will die before reaching maturity to procreate. So the death rate of caterpillars in the wild is about 99%. Leaving your caterpillar in the wild is basically a death sentence."
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/faqs/care.html
"Remember that if nature is in balance, then every pair of adults will produce only 2 viable adults in the next generation. Say if a female lays say 400 eggs (a typical number), of which, say, 200 hatch successfully into caterpillars, then on average 198 of these will die before reaching maturity to procreate. So the death rate of caterpillars in the wild is about 99%. Leaving your caterpillar in the wild is basically a death sentence."
18 Dec 2024
@debhart : I have taken the liberty of putting a copy of part of one of your wonderful photos into:
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/leucotelus.html
I hope you approve?
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/leucotelus.html
I hope you approve?
Location information
- Places Monash, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- debhart Recorded by
- floating in the pool Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- debhart Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cebysa leucotelus Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Cebysa leucotelus Scientific name
- Australian Bagmoth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 894.2m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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