Aenetus

Aenetus
Puriri moth (Aenetus virescens)
Scientific classification
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 (Australia)
• Aenetus blackburnii - Blackburn's ghost moth (Australia)
• Aenetus cohici (New Caledonia)
• Aenetus crameri (New Guinea)
• Aenetus dulcis (Australia)
  • Food plant: Agonis
• Aenetus eugyna (New Guinea)
• Aenetus eximia - common ghost moth (southern Queensland to Tasmania)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Food plant: Alphitonia
• Aenetus montanus (Australia)
  • Food plant: Eucalyptus
• Aenetus ombraloma (Victoria)
  • Food plant: Eucalyptus
• Aenetus ramsayi (Queensland and New South Wales)
  • Recorded food plants: Diploglottis, Eucalyptus
• Aenetus scotti (Australia)
  • Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dendrocnide, Diploglottis, Eucalyptus, Lantana, Tetradium
• Aenetus scripta (Australia)
• Aenetus sordida (New Guinea)
• Aenetus splendens (Australia)

Recorded food plants: Callicoma, Casuarina, Eugenia, Trema

• Aenetus tegulatus (Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland)
• Aenetus tephroptilus (Australia)
• Aenetus toxopeusi (New Guinea)
• Aenetus virescens - puriri moth (North Island, New Zealand) (New Zealand's largest native moth)
  • Recorded food plants: Carpodetus, Citrus, Cornus, Eucalyptus, Malus, Nothofagus, oak, Prunus, willow

External links

• Hepialidae of Australia