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Xyloryctidae

  They do not have the close association with eucalyptus leaves that the oecophorin do. The larva feed on a variety of plant families. Most feed on trees and woody shrubs, but some feed on lichens.     [n Aust. species]

Cryptophasa albacosta

Cryptophasa byssinopsis

Cryptophasa delocentra PS1

Cryptophasa delocentra PS4

       

Cryptophasa irrorata

Cryptophasa irrorata (male and female)

Cryptophasa lasiocosma

Cryptophasa opalina
       

Cryptophasa russata PS2

Cryptophasa russata

Cryptophasa sp. 5 Cryptophasa sp. 10
       

Gonionoma sp. 2 Illidgea sp.

Illidgea sp. 5

Lichenaula sp. 5
       

Lichenaula sp.

Maroga melanastigma

Maroga melanostigma

Plectophila pyrgodes
       

Plectophila thrasycosma

Tymbophora peltastis

Uzucha humeralis

Xylorycta austera
       

 

  Xylorycta ophiogramma

Xylorycta sp. 3

Xylorycta sp. 4
       
     
Xylorycta sp. 5      

 

 

 

 
Xyloryctine sp. 6 Xyloryctine sp. 13 Xyloryctine sp. 19 Xyloryctine sp. 30
       
       

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References:

Insects of Australia (Chapter 41: Lepidoptera)

E.S. Nielson and I.F.B. Common

CSIRO, Division of Entomology

1137pp (2 volumes), Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1999.

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Moths of Australia

Ian F.B. Common

Melbourne University Press, 1990

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