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Case moths (Psychidae)

Case moths (Psychidae)

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Case moths (Psychidae)

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ibaird wrote:
9 Jun 2025
AFD: https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Chalia_lurida
Australian Moths Online: https://moths.csiro.au/unplacedtogenus-lurida-heylaerts-1885/
Unplaced lurida
donhe wrote:
30 May 2025
Not convincing. It needs to be reared in captivity to get an adult male moth to get a secure determination of the species.
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Hejor1 wrote:
30 May 2025
@donhe I think they were bits of leaf, just very dry eucalyptus leaves. The middle vein of the leaf is visible in the last photo, top most leaf, running down right hand side (vertically oriented in the photo)
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donhe wrote:
29 May 2025
Pieces of leaf ? H. huebneri ?
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donhe wrote:
29 May 2025
This appears to cover the case with pieces of bark, not leaf like M. phyllosaca,
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