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Cebysa

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ13845862 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cebysa leucotelus, the Australian bagmoth or lichen bag moth, is a moth of the Psychidae family. It is the only species in the genus Cebysa. It is found in New Zealand and the southern half of Australia (Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia).

The larvae build a protective bag like the other bag moths in the family Psychidae, and feed on lichen and algae.

Lichen bag moths arrived in New Zealand from Australia in 1981 and have been gradually spreading across the country.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cebysa” as genus of insects. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cebysa, genus and insects can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of insects. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13845862. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cebysa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.