Psychoides
filicivora (Meyrick,
1937)  |
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.....Has proved to be quite common, if looked for in Nottinghamshire. Psychoides
filicivora is typically a moth of coastal areas, but
is now found increasingly inland through the use of ferns in
horticulture. Sometimes found indoors on potted ferns at
all times of the year. The larval cases can be found on a
range of Ferns, including Asplenium trichomanes growing
on the riverside walls of Newark Castle and Southwell Minster. Even very
isolated plants can host larvae. |
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| Adult, photographed at
Southwell December 2023 |
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| Adults reared
ex-larvae, photographed early December 2010 |
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| Leaf mines
photographed on Polypodium sp at Mapperley
Nottingham, October 2010 |
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| Larval cases
photographed at Mapperley Nottingham, October 2010 |
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| Larva
(removed from case) photographed at Mapperley Nottingham,
October 2010 |
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| Larva in
unheated greenhouse on Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart's-tongue
Fern), photographed at Normanton, Southwell, March 2025 |
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