''Cryptothelea gloverii'' is a species of

bagworm The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, su ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

. Its native range includes

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and

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

. It favors orange trees, and also eat the camphor scale ('' Pseudaonidia duplex''), a

scale insect Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the ...

.Villanueva, R. T., Rodrigues, J. C., & Childers, C. C. (2005). Larval Cryptothelea gloverii (Lepidoptera: Psycidae), an arthropod predator and herbivore on Florida citrus. ''Experimental & applied acarology'', ''36''(1-2), 83-92.

References

Psychidae Moths of Central America Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard Moths described in 1869 {{Tineoidea-stub