🦋 Family

Hepialidae

42 species · Animals

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Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Hepialidae

Aenetus ligniveren (Lewin, 1805)

Aenetus ligniveren, the common splendid ghost moth, is a Hepialidae moth found in eastern Australia.

Aenetus dulcis (Swinhoe, 1892)

Aenetus dulcis is a 110 mm wingspan Hepialidae moth found in Western Australia whose larvae bore into Agonis flexuosa stems.

Cladoxycanus minos (Hudson, 1905)

Cladoxycanus minos is the only species in the monotypic moth genus Cladoxycanus of Hepialidae, endemic to New Zealand, first described in 1905.

Dumbletonius unimaculata (Salmon, 1948)

Dumbletonius unimaculata is an endemic New Zealand moth that lives in North Island lowland native forest.

Wiseana umbraculatus (Guenée, 1868)

Wiseana umbraculatus, or bog porina, is a New Zealand moth whose pasture-dwelling larvae can be very damaging to vegetation.

Wiseana cervinata (Walker, 1865)

Wiseana cervinata is an endemic New Zealand porina moth that feeds on clovers, grasses, and possibly traditional Māori kūmara.

Wiseana signata (Walker, 1856)

Wiseana signata is an endemic New Zealand moth species in Hepialidae described by Francis Walker in 1856.

Wiseana copularis (Meyrick, 1912)

Wiseana copularis is a moth species endemic to New Zealand, visually similar to close relatives and identified via genitalia or DNA analysis.

Triodia amasinus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)

Triodia amasinus is a 23 mm wingspan moth in Hepialidae, described in 1851 and found in Southeast Europe and Turkey.

Triodia sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761)

Triodia sylvina is a moth species ranging from Europe to the Middle East, with larvae that feed on plant roots.

Elhamma australasiae (Walker, 1856)

Elhamma australasiae is a moth species with distinct physical traits across its egg, larval, pupal, and adult life stages.

Fraus pteromela (Lower, 1892)

Fraus pteromela is a Hepialidae moth found across most of southern half Australia, with different wingspans for each sex.

Fraus crocea (Lucas, 1891)

Fraus crocea is a Hepialidae moth endemic to southeastern Australia, with larvae associated with two grass genera.

Fraus simulans Walker, 1856

The lesser ghost moth Fraus simulans is a Hepialidae moth endemic to multiple regions of Australia.

Fraus nanus (Herrich-Schäffer)

Fraus nanus is a Hepialidae moth endemic to four regions of Australia.

Fraus polyspila (Meyrick, 1890)

Fraus polyspila is an endemic Australian Hepialidae moth with larvae that tunnel 20 cm deep and feed on Ehrharta.

Leto venus (Cramer, 1780)

Leto is a monotypic Hepialidae moth genus with its only endemic South African species Leto venus, whose larvae feed on Virgilia.

Oncopera rufobrunnea Tindale, 1933

Oncopera rufobrunnea is an endemic Australian moth whose subterranean larvae feed on grass roots and bases.

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Noctuidae 1315 species Erebidae 1232 species Geometridae 1132 species Nymphalidae 849 species Crambidae 700 species Tortricidae 445 species Lycaenidae 426 species Hesperiidae 380 species

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