Aenetus

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Aenetus

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Species

See text.

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.

[edit] Species

Aenetus arfaki (New Guinea)
Aenetus astathes (Australia)
Aenetus blackburnii - Blackburn's Ghost Moth (Australia) [1]
Aenetus cohici (New Caledonia) [2]
Aenetus crameri (New Guinea)
Aenetus dulcis (Australia) [3]

Food plant: Agonis

Aenetus eugyna (New Guinea)
Aenetus eximia - Common Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland to Tasmania) [4]

Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dodonaea, Doryphora, Eucalyptus, Glochidion, Nothofagus, Prostanthera, Waterhousea

Aenetus hampsoni (New Guinea)
Aenetus lewinii (Australia)

Recorded food plants: Casuarina, Leptospermum

Aenetus ligniveren - Common Splendid Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland to Tasmania) [5]

Recorded food plants: Acacia, Acmena, Bottlebrush, 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 (Australia) [7]

Food plant: Eucalyptus

Aenetus ombraloma (Victoria)

Food plant: Eucalyptus

Aenetus ramsayi (Queensland and New South Wales) [8]

Recorded food plants: Diploglottis, Eucalyptus

Aenetus scotti (Australia) [9]

Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dendrocnide, Diploglottis, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Tetradium

Aenetus scripta (Australia) [10]
Aenetus sordida (New Guinea)
Aenetus splendens (Australia) [11]

Recorded food plants: Callicoma, Casuarina, Eugenia, Trema

Aenetus tegulatus (Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland) [12]
Aenetus tephroptilus (Australia)
Aenetus toxopeusi (New Guinea)
Aenetus virescens - Puriri moth (North Island, New Zealand) [13] (New Zealand's largest native moth)