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Stick Case Moth

Clania Lewinii

Description:

32mm long casemoth; case made of straight parallel cut sticks of uniform diameter.

Habitat:

Embedded in the rough bark of Eucalyptus microcarpa

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3 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

All these sticks are similar length. Sometimes a related species(?) might make one or two sticks much longer. Here's a link to another which makes 2 of the sticks longer (reason unknown).
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/889...

Ietermagog
Ietermagog 12 years ago

How intriguing ... not seen it before!

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

interesting!

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

3802, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 31, 2012
Submitted on Jan 31, 2012

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