''Aenetus'' is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia, New Guinea,

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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

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

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Aenetus arfaki ''Aenetus arfaki'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1910. It is known from the Arfak Mountains in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world ...

'' (New Guinea) * ''

Aenetus astathes ''Aenetus astathes'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Australia. The larvae have been recorded feeding on ''Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the I ...

'' (Western Australia) *''

Aenetus bilineatus ''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 predomi ...

'' (New Guinea) *''

Aenetus blackburnii ''Aenetus blackburnii'' (Blackburn's ghost moth) is a moth of the family Hepialidae The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and system ...

'' - Blackburn's ghost moth (South Australia; Victoria, Australia

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Aenetus cohici ''Aenetus cohici'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. The wingspan is 107–121 mm. There are two colour morphs. The first has a background colour of yellowish-green with pastel violet spots. The second morp ...

'' (New Caledonia

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Aenetus crameri ''Aenetus crameri'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surroundi ...

'' (New Guinea) * ''

Aenetus dulcis ''Aenetus dulcis'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is known from Western Australia. The wingspan is about 110 mm. The larvae feed on ''Agonis flexuosa ''Agonis flexuosa'' is a species o ...

'' (Western Australia

**Food plant: '' Agonis'' *''

Aenetus djernaesae ''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 predomi ...

'' (Western Australia ) *''

Aenetus edwardsi ''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 predomi ...

'' (Queensland, Australia) *'' Aenetus eugyna'' (New Guinea) *''

Aenetus eximia ''Aenetus eximia'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from southern Queensland, Australia, to Tasmania. The wingspan is about 70 mm. Adult males are blue-green. Females are green with two spots on each forewing. The hindwings ar ...

'' - common ghost moth (southern Queensland to Victoria, Australia

**Recorded food plants: ''

Daphnandra ''Daphnandra'' is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia. There are six species, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland: *''Daphnandra apatela'' Schodde Soc ...

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Dodonaea ''Dodonaea'' is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, often known as hop-bushes, in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, so ...

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Doryphora ''Doryphora'' is a genus of plant in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. It contains four species, two endemic to Australia and two to New Caledonia. Overview They are evergreen trees or shrubs from southern hemisphere of g ...

'', '' Eucalyptus'', '' Glochidion'', '' Nothofagus'', '' Prostanthera'', ''

Waterhousea ''Syzygium'' () is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. I ...

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Aenetus hampsoni ''Aenetus hampsoni'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the ...

'' (New Guinea) * ''

Aenetus lewinii ''Aenetus lewinii'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from New South Wales and Queensland. The larvae feed on various trees, including ''Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, nativ ...

'' (southern Queensland to New South Wales, Australia) **Recorded food plants: '' Casuarina'', ''

Leptospermum ''Leptospermum'' is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae commonly known as tea trees, although this name is sometimes also used for some species of ''Melaleuca''. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greate ...

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Aenetus ligniveren ''Aenetus ligniveren'', the common splendid ghost moth, is a moth in the family Hepialidae. It is found from southern Queensland to Tasmania. The wingspan is 50 mm for males and 70 mm for females. Adult males have green forewings with ...

'' - common splendid ghost moth (Southern Queensland to South Australia

**Recorded food plants: ''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

'', '' Acmena'', ''

Callistemon ''Callistemon'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1814. The entire genus is endemic to Australia but widely cultivated in many other regions and naturalised in scattered locations. Their status as a se ...

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'', '' Eucalyptus'', '' Lantana'', ''

'', '' Lophostemon'', '' Malus'', ''

Melaleuca ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They range in size ...

'', '' Olearia'', ''

Pomaderris ''Pomaderris'' is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, the species native to Australia and/or New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Pomaderris'' are usually shrubs, sometimes small trees with simple leaves arran ...

'', '' Prostanthera'', '' Rubus'' * '' Aenetus marginatus'' (New Guinea) * ''

Aenetus mirabilis ''Aenetus mirabilis'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Queensland. The larvae feed on ''Alphitonia ''Alphitonia'' is a genus of arborescent flowering plants comprising about 20 species, constituting part of the buckthorn fa ...

'' - North Queensland swift moth (Queensland

**Food plant: ''

Alphitonia ''Alphitonia'' is a genus of arborescent flowering plants comprising about 20 species, constituting part of the buckthorn family ( Rhamnaceae). They occur in tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Oceania and Polynesia. These are large trees or shru ...

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Aenetus montanus ''Aenetus montanus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. The larvae feed on ''Eucalyptus pauciflora ''Eucalyptus pauciflora'', commonly known as snow gum, cabbage gum or w ...

'' (Victoria and New South Wales, Australia

**Food plant: ''Eucalyptus'' * '' Aenetus ombraloma'' (Tasmania) **Food plant: ''Eucalyptus'' * '' Aenetus ramsayi'' (Queensland and New South Wales

**Recorded food plants: '' Diploglottis'', '' Eucalyptus'' * ''

Aenetus scotti ''Aenetus scotti'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from New South Wales and Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivisi ...

'' (Queensland and New South Wales, Australia

**Recorded food plants: ''

'', '' Dendrocnide'', '' Diploglottis'', '' Eucalyptus'', '' Lantana'', '' Tetradium'' * '' Aenetus scripta'' (Western Australia

* '' Aenetus sordida'' (New Guinea) * ''

Aenetus splendens ''Aenetus splendens'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan is about 70 mm for females and 50 mm for males. Adult males have green forewings with white diagonal bars. The hindw ...

'' (southern Queensland and New South Wales Australia

:Recorded food plants: '' Callicoma'', '' Casuarina'', '' Eugenia'', ''

Trema Trema may refer to: * a List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z#T, Greek and Latin root meaning ''hole'' * ''Tréma'', a word in French meaning diaeresis ** more generally, two dots (diacritic) * Trema (plant), ''Trema'' (plant), a genus of ...

'' *'' Aenetus sumatraensis'' (Sumatra, Indonesia) *'' Aenetus tegulatus'' (Indonesia, New Guinea

*'' Aenetus tephroptilus'' (Western Australia) *'' Aenetus thermistis'' (northern Australia) *''

Aenetus tindalei ''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 predomi ...

'' (South Australia) * '' Aenetus toxopeusi'' (New Guinea) * '' Aenetus virescens'' - puriri moth (

North Island The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...

, New Zealand

(New Zealand's largest native moth) **Recorded food plants: '' Carpodetus'', '' Citrus'', '' Cornus'', '' Eucalyptus'', '' Malus'', '' Nothofagus'', oak, '' Prunus'', willow

References

External links

Hepialidae of Australia

Hepialidae: Aenetus
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