List of Lepidoptera that feed on Eucalyptus
Gum trees, Eucalyptus spp., are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). These include:
Monophagous
Species which feed exclusively on Eucalyptus
- Bucculatricidae
- Hepialidae
- Abantiades latipennis (Pindi Moth) – root feeder, only on Messmate Stringybark (E. obliqua) and Stringy Gum (E. regnans)
- Aenetus montanus – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ombraloma – trunk burrower
Polyphagous
Species which feed on Eucalyptus among other plants
- Arctiidae
- Eupseudosoma aberrans
- Eupseudosoma involutum (Snowy Eupseudosoma)
- Hepialidae
- Other Abantiades spp. – root feeders
- Aenetus eximia – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ligniveren – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ramsayi – trunk burrower
- Aenetus scotti – trunk burrower
- Aenetus virescens (Puriri Moth) – trunk burrower
- Endoclita auratus
- Endoclita hosei
- Endoclita malabaricus
- Endoclita undulifer
- Trichophassus giganteus
- Zelotypia stacyi (Bentwing Ghost Moth) – trunk burrower
- Noctuidae
- Agrotis segetum (Turnip Moth)
- Oecophoridae
- All known species of Crossophora
- Tortricidae
- "Cnephasia" jactatana (Black-lyre Leafroller Moth)