User:Minirolls1991/Phymatopus
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| Phymatopus hecta | |
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| Genus: | Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869 or auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
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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].
Species[edit]
Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869
- Food plant: Pteridium
- Phymatopus hectica - Eastern Russia
Phymatopus auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
- Phymatopus californicus - United States
- Recorded food plants: Baccharis, Eriophyllum
- Phymatopus hectoides - United States
- Recorded food plants: Baccharis, Horkelia, Scrophularia
Cited references[edit]
- ^ 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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