Climate change expected to drive habitat loss for two key herbivore . . . The distributions of both moth species are more likely to be restricted by climate than host-plant availability Predicted climate change effects are likely to put L caespitosae under greater immediate risk of local extinction than O alpina as a result of large areas of habitat loss by 2050
A Closer Focus: Threats to Australia’s Moths | SpringerLink Nevertheless, the abundance of both the Alpine grass grub (Oncopera alpina, Hepialidae) and the Alpine case moth (Lomera caespitosae, Psychidae) can be surveyed realistically by searches for their characteristic larval grass retreats and cases, respectively, in Poa tussocks The moths have rather different host preferences, but grass
Australian Lepidoptera Index - Butterfly House Lomera boisduvalii Lomera caespitosae Lomera zophopepla Lonchoptena episcota Lophocalama neuritis Lophocalama suffusa Lophocnema eusphyra Lophocorona astiptica
Plant, Invertebrate and Pathogen Interactions in Kosciuszko National Park Perhaps the best known invertebrate herbivores in KNP are two native moth species, the alpine case moth, Lomera caespitosae (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) and the alpine grass grub Oncopera alpina (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) that, in their larval stage, graze on the foliage and roots, respectively, of the dominant grasses in high elevation vegetation (P