Long-horned Caddisfly: S11, Antennae

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, Antennae🔎

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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