Aenetus

Aenetus
	Puriri moth (Aenetus virescens)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Aenetus; Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Species
	See text.
Synonyms
	Charagia Walker, 1856; Phloiopsyche Scott, 1864; Oenetus Kirby, 1892; Choragia Pagenstecher, 1909; Oenetes Oke, 1953;

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.

Species

Aenetus arfaki (New Guinea)
Aenetus astathes (Western Australia)
Aenetus bilineatus (New Guinea) ^[1]
Aenetus blackburnii - Blackburn's ghost moth (South Australia; Victoria, Australia) [1]
Aenetus cohici (New Caledonia) [2]
Aenetus crameri (New Guinea)
Aenetus dulcis (Western Australia) [3]
- Food plant: Agonis
Aenetus djernaesae (Western Australia ) ^[2]
Aenetus edwardsi (Queensland, Australia) ^[2]
Aenetus eugyna (New Guinea)
Aenetus eximia - common ghost moth (southern Queensland to Victoria, Australia) [4]
- Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dodonaea, Doryphora, Eucalyptus, Glochidion, Nothofagus, Prostanthera, Waterhousea
Aenetus hampsoni (New Guinea)
Aenetus lewinii (southern Queensland to New South Wales, Australia)
- Recorded food plants: Casuarina, Leptospermum
Aenetus ligniveren - common splendid ghost moth (Southern Queensland to South Australia) [5]
- Recorded food plants: Acacia, Acmena, Callistemon, Dodonaea, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Leptospermum, Lophostemon, Malus, Melaleuca, Olearia, Pomaderris, Prostanthera, Rubus
Aenetus marginatus (New Guinea)
Aenetus mirabilis - North Queensland swift moth (Queensland) [6]
- Food plant: Alphitonia
Aenetus montanus (Victoria and New South Wales, Australia) [7]
- Food plant: Eucalyptus
Aenetus ombraloma (Tasmania)
- Food plant: Eucalyptus
Aenetus ramsayi (Queensland and New South Wales) [8]
- Recorded food plants: Diploglottis, Eucalyptus
Aenetus scotti (Queensland and New South Wales, Australia) [9]
- Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dendrocnide, Diploglottis, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Tetradium
Aenetus scripta (Western Australia) [10]
Aenetus sordida (New Guinea)
Aenetus splendens (southern Queensland and New South Wales Australia) [11]

Recorded food plants: Callicoma, Casuarina, Eugenia, Trema

Aenetus sumatraensis (Sumatra, Indonesia) ^[3]
Aenetus tegulatus (Indonesia, New Guinea) [12]
Aenetus tephroptilus (Western Australia)
Aenetus thermistis (northern Australia)
Aenetus tindalei (South Australia) ^[2]
Aenetus toxopeusi (New Guinea)
Aenetus virescens - puriri moth (North Island, New Zealand) [13] (New Zealand's largest native moth)
- Recorded food plants: Carpodetus, Citrus, Cornus, Eucalyptus, Malus, Nothofagus, oak, Prunus, willow

References

^ Beaver, Ethan (2019). "A new species of Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from New Guinea". Australian Entomologist. 46: 47–55.
^ ^a ^b ^c Simonsen, Thomas (2018). Splendid Ghost Moths and Their Allies - A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae). CSIRO publishing. ISBN 9781486307470.
^ Grehan, John (2018). "New Species of Aenetus from Sumatra, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) and a 5,000 km biogeographic disjunction". Entomofauna. 39/2: 849–862.

External links

Hepialidae of Australia
Hepialidae: Aenetus, johngrehan.net

[1] Beaver, Ethan (2019). "A new species of Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from New Guinea". Australian Entomologist. 46: 47–55.

[:0-2] Simonsen, Thomas (2018). Splendid Ghost Moths and Their Allies - A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae). CSIRO publishing. ISBN 9781486307470.

[3] Grehan, John (2018). "New Species of Aenetus from Sumatra, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) and a 5,000 km biogeographic disjunction". Entomofauna. 39/2: 849–862.

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