Cryptothelea gloverii

Cryptothelea gloverii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Psychidae
Genus: Cryptothelea
Species: C. gloveri
Binomial name
Cryptothelea gloverii
(Packard, 1869)
Synonyms

Cryptothelea gloveri (lapsus)
Platoeceticus gloveri (lapsus)
Platoeceticus gloverii

Cryptothelea gloverii is a species of bagworm that favors orange trees.

They also eat the camphor scale (Pseudaonidia duplex), a scale insect.

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