Small Caddisfly
S1, ventral
Ellura
Long-horned Caddisfly
S11, Antennae
 
                      
Long-horned Caddisfly (Leptoceridae sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Caddisfies (Trichoptera)
Family: Long-horned Caddisfly (Leptoceridae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Long-horned Caddisfly (Leptoceridae sp)
This Photo:     🔍S11, profile🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Came to night light.
We didn't realise but we still didn't get the entire antenna into the shot. The other antenna seemed shorter, perhaps snapped off. It also seems to be split.

These look a lot like brown moths. Officially the difference is that moths have "scales", caddisflies have "hairs". However, it's very difficult to differentiate. Superficially the long, jointed palps separate them out.

Copyright © 2023-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 22-Jan-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.