Aenetus

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iAenetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hepialidae Genus: Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Species
See text.

Aenetus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand. Most species have green or blue forewings and reddish hindwings but some are predominantly brown or white. The larvae feed in the trunks of living trees, burrowing horizontally into the trunk then vertically down.

[edit] Species

• A. arfaki (New Guinea)
• A. astathes (Australia)
• A. blackburnii - Blackburn's Ghost Moth (Australia) [1]
• A. cohici (New Caledonia) [2]
• A. crameri (New Guinea)
• A. dulcis (Australia) [3]

• Food plant: Agonis

• A. eugyna (New Guinea)
• A. eximia - Common Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland to Tasmania) [4]

• Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dodonaea, Doryphora, Eucalyptus, Glochidion, Nothofagus, Prostanthera, Waterhousea

• A. hampsoni (New Guinea)
• A. lewinii (Australia)

• Recorded food plants: Casuarina, Leptospermum

• A. ligniveren - Common Splendid Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland to Tasmania) [5]

• Recorded food plants: Acacia, Acmena, Bottlebrush, Dodonaea, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Leptospermum, Lophostemon, Malus, Melaleuca, Olearia, Pomaderris, Prostanthera, Rubus

• A. marginatus (New Guinea)
• A. mirabilis - North Queensland Swift Moth (Queensland) [6]

• Food plant: Alphitonia

• A. montanus (Australia) [7]

• Food plant: Eucalyptus

• A. ombraloma (Victoria)

• Food plant: Eucalyptus

• A. ramsayi (Queensland and New South Wales) [8]

• Recorded food plants: Diploglottis, Eucalyptus

• A. scotti (Australia) [9]

• Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dendrocnide, Diploglottis, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Tetradium

• A. scripta (Australia) [10]
• A. sordida (New Guinea)
• A. splendens (Australia) [11]

Recorded food plants: Callicoma, Casuarina, Eugenia, Trema

• A. tegulatus (Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland) [12]
• A. tephroptilus (Australia)
• A. toxopeusi (New Guinea)
• A. virescens - Puriri Moth (North Island, New Zealand) [13] (New Zealand's largest native moth)

• Recorded food plants: Carpodetus, Citrus, Eucalyptus, Malus, Nothofagus, Oak, Prunus, Willow

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• Hepialidae genera