| dc.description.abstract | Moths and butterflies come under the Order Lepidoptera. Psychidae is one of five moth
families that make up the Super Family Tineoidea, Clade Ditrysia (Davis and Robinson,
1998) Members of the Family Psychidae are commonly called bagworms, bagworm moths,
or bag moths because of bag-making behavior (Sugimoto 2009; Roh and Byun 2016) by their
larval stages Different types of materials such as silk threads, plant twigs, leaves, bark tissues,
algae, mosses, grass, lichens, animal debris, etc are used to build the bag around the larval
bodies. Female moths of many species complete their life cycle inside their bags and do not
develop as adult moths. The bagworm family consists of 10 subfamilies. There are 1450
described species from 241 genera reported from all over the world except Antarctica
(Sobczyk, 2011, 2019, Nieukerken et al., 2011). Hampson (1892) listed 36 species from
British India including Sri Lanka and Myanmar and is supposed to be the oldest record of
bagworms from India. A checklist indicates the presence of 106 species belonging to 34
genera in India (Sobczyk, 2011). | en_US |
