Phymatopus

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Phymatopus
Phymatopus hecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Phymatopus
Wallengren, 1869 or auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
Species

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Phymatopus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are six described species scattered across the Northern Hemisphere, placed in two groups[1][1].

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Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869

Phymatopus auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869

  • P. californicus - United States
  • P. hectoides - United States

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823-878.

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