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Psychidae

Psychidae

1 species is known from Block Island. Larvae in this family construct cases for protection and camouflage. Adult males of most Nearctic species are either entirely black or bizarre-looking with large clear patches on the wings. Females are often larviform or, if not, with vestigial wings, and they generally mate and lay eggs while still at least partly within their larval cases, leaving only to die.

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