''Aenetus'' is a genus of

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s 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 systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exopo ...

. There are 24 described species found in

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and

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. Most species have green or blue forewings and reddish hindwings, but some are predominantly brown or white. The

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e feed in the trunks of living trees, burrowing horizontally into the trunk, then vertically down.

Species

* '' Aenetus arfaki'' (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'' (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

* '' Aenetus cohici'' (New Caledonia

* '' Aenetus crameri'' (New Guinea) * '' Aenetus dulcis'' (Western Australia

**Food plant: ''

Agonis ''Agonis'' is a genus in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic (ecology), endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the Southwest Australia, south west. Description Only one, ''Agonis flexuosa'', grows to tree size; the o ...

'' *'' Aenetus djernaesae'' (Western Australia ) *'' Aenetus edwardsi'' (Queensland, Australia) *'' Aenetus eugyna'' (New Guinea) *'' Aenetus eximia'' - common ghost moth (southern

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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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Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

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Glochidion ''Glochidion'' is a genus of flowering plants, of the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the P ...

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Nothofagus ''Nothofagus'', also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Gui ...

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Prostanthera ''Prostanthera'', commonly known as mintbush or mint bush, is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, and all are endemic to Australia. Plants are usually shrubs, rarely trees with leaves in oppo ...

'', '' Waterhousea'' * '' Aenetus hampsoni'' (New Guinea) * '' Aenetus lewinii'' (southern Queensland to New South Wales, Australia) **Recorded food plants: ''

Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the fami ...

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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 ...

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Acmena ''Acmena'' was formerly the name of a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The genus was first formally described in 1828 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his '' Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis''. The spec ...

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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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Lantana ''Lantana'' () is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in ...

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Lophostemon ''Lophostemon'' ('lophos' - crest, 'stemon' - stamen) is a genus of 4 species of evergreen tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. All four species are native to Australia, with one extending to New Guinea. The genus was first described in 1830 bu ...

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Malus ''Malus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples, wild apples, and rainberries. The genus is native to the temperate zone of th ...

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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 ...

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Olearia ''Olearia'', most commonly known as daisy-bush, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae, the largest of the flowering plant families in the world. Olearia are found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus i ...

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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 ...

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Rubus ''Rubus'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with over 1,350 species. Raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of these ...

'' * '' 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 ...

'' * '' Aenetus montanus'' (Victoria and New South Wales, Australia

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

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**Recorded food plants: ''

Diploglottis ''Diploglottis'' is a genus of 10 species of trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in rainforests and margins of adjoining humid forests in eastern Australia and New Guinea. Some species ar ...

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'' * '' Aenetus scotti'' (Queensland and New South Wales, Australia

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Dendrocnide ''Dendrocnide'' is a genus of approximately 40 species of plants in the nettle family ''Urticaceae''. They have a wide distribution across North East India, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. In Australia they are commonly known a ...

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Tetradium ''Tetradium'' is a genus of trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring in temperate to tropical east Asia. In older books, the genus was often included in the related genus '' Euodia'' (sometimes written, "''Evodia''" from latin spelling), but that ...

'' * '' 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 ''Callicoma'' is a plant genus that contains just one species, ''Callicoma serratifolia'', a tall shrub or small tree which is native to Australia. ''Callicoma serratifolia'' is commonly known as black wattle. One explanation for the name is th ...

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Eugenia ''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, ...

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

*'' Aenetus tephroptilus'' (Western Australia) *'' Aenetus thermistis'' (northern Australia) *'' Aenetus tindalei'' (South Australia) * '' Aenetus toxopeusi'' (New Guinea) * '' Aenetus virescens'' - puriri moth (

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, New Zealand

(New Zealand's largest native moth) **Recorded food plants: ''

Carpodetus ''Carpodetus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Rousseaceae family. It was formerly considered to lie within the Escalloniaceae. Its species occur in New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. The genus is characterised by small ...

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Citrus ''Citrus'' is a genus of flowering plant, flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae. Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as Orange (fruit), oranges, Lemon, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and lim ...

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Cornus ''Cornus'' is a genus of about 30–60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark. Most are deciduous trees or shrub ...

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oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

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Prunus ''Prunus'' is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes (among many others) the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds. Native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of South America, and the p ...

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willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...

References

External links

Hepialidae of Australia

Hepialidae: Aenetus
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