LECITHOCERIDAE of Australia
GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Stella Crossley (updated 29 September 2011)

LECITHOCERIDAE moth pictures

Many caterillars of species in this family are densely covered in branched hairs, and feed of dead leaves of plants from families such as MYRTACEAE, POACEAE, and PROTEACEAE.

The species in this family have been previously been placed in the family GELICHIIDAE and some in SYMMOCIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., they are treated as the separate family LECITHOCERIDAE.
The 49 named Australian species that are placed in LECITHOCERIDAE are:

Crocanthes acroxantha
Crocanthes characotis
Crocanthes chordotona
Crocanthes diula

Crocanthes epitherma
Crocanthes glycina

Crocanthes halurga
Crocanthes micradelpha
Crocanthes pancala
Crocanthes perigrapta
Crocanthes prasinopis
Crocanthes sidonia

Crocanthes zonias
Crocanthes zonodesma

Lecithocera chamela
Lecithocera concinna
Lecithocera cyamitis

Sarisophora pycnospila
Sarisophora tenella