Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Terrestrial caddis fly?
Posted by LordV on 05-10-2005 15:17
#1
Pic taken today on my outside dustbin lid.
Brian V.
Posted by Andrius on 06-10-2005 08:01
#2
It looks like larva of Psychidae moth to me. They usually make cases from plant material, but some of them can as well use sand particles - for example
Diplodoma or
Teleporia. But I'm not a lepidopterologist, so that's only my guess ;)
Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2005 10:52
#3
I think there are a few families in Tineoidea that make cases like that, but Psychidae is the most probable in my opinion too.
Posted by LordV on 06-10-2005 11:13
#4
Thanks- began to wonder if it was a moth larvae.
Brian V.
Posted by Wil on 06-10-2005 13:05
#5
I think it's larva of Psychidae, dahlica triquetrella.
Willy
Posted by Denis on 12-12-2005 12:04
#6
Hi Brian, I made it here! I seem to recall there was an article on terrestrial caddis fies in the current edition of British Wildlife.
Cheeers!
Denis