Australian HELIOCOSMA Group

HELIOCOSMA Group of Australia
TORTRICOIDEA

HELIOCOSMA
Group

caterpillars

HELIOCOSMA
Group

moths
   Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

These species have been placed variously by different authors into YPONOMEUTIDAE, CONCHYLIDAE, TORTRICIDAE, PHALONIIDAE, or PLUTELLIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al, we list them separately.

The caterpillars of these species construct and live in portable camouflaged cases, as do the caterpillars of ADELIDAE, PSYCHIDAE, and TINEIDAE.

The 9 named Australian species assigned to the HELIOCOSMA Group are:

Acmosara polyxena