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Aenetus is a genus of moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
s of the family Hepialidae
Hepialidae

The Hepialidae is a Scientific classification of insects in the lepidopteran Scientific classification. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths....
. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
, New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, New Caledonia
New Caledonia

New Caledonia , is a "sui generis collectivity" of France located in the subregion of Melanesia in the Oceania. It comprises a main island , the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
. Most species have green or blue forewings and reddish hindwings but some are predominantly brown or white. The larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e feed in the trunks of living trees, burrowing horizontally into the trunk then vertically down.








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Aenetus is a genus of moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
s of the family Hepialidae
Hepialidae

The Hepialidae is a Scientific classification of insects in the lepidopteran Scientific classification. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths....
. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
, New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, New Caledonia
New Caledonia

New Caledonia , is a "sui generis collectivity" of France located in the subregion of Melanesia in the Oceania. It comprises a main island , the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
. Most species have green or blue forewings and reddish hindwings but some are predominantly brown or white. The larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e 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
    Agonis

    Agonis is a genus of four species in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the Southwest Australia....


  • Aenetus eugyna (New Guinea)
  • Aenetus eximia - Common Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland
    Queensland

    Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
     to Tasmania
    Tasmania

    Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
    )
  • Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dodonaea
    Dodonaea

    Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the Sapindus family, Sapindaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia....
    , Doryphora
    Doryphora

    Doryphora is a genus of plant in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. It contains only two species, both endemic to Australia....
    , Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
    , Glochidion
    Glochidion

    Glochidion are a taxon of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands....
    , Nothofagus
    Nothofagus

    Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of about 35 species of trees and shrub native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia ....
    , Prostanthera
    Prostanthera

    Prostanthera commonly known as Mintbush, is a genus of plants of the family Lamiaceae. There are about 90 species within the genus, all of which are endemic to Australia....
    , Waterhousea
    Waterhousea

    Waterhousea is a genus of 4 species of small tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are endemic to Australia, along the eastern coast in New South Wales and Queensland....


  • Aenetus hampsoni (New Guinea)
  • Aenetus lewinii (Australia)
  • Recorded food plants: Casuarina
    Casuarina

    Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, southeastern Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean....
    , Leptospermum
    Leptospermum

    Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and Leptospermum recurvum is endemic to Malaysia....


  • Aenetus ligniveren - Common Splendid Ghost Moth (Southern Queensland to Tasmania)
  • Recorded food plants: Acacia
    Acacia

    Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Sweden botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1773....
    , Acmena
    Acmena

    Acmena is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are related to guavas. The name is derived from the Greek language word for "plentiful."...
    , Bottlebrush
    Bottlebrush

    Bottlebrush is a genus with 34 species of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The majority of Callistemon species are endemic to Australia; four species are also found in New Caledonia....
    , Dodonaea
    Dodonaea

    Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the Sapindus family, Sapindaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia....
    , Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
    , Lantana
    Lantana

    Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plant flowering plants, native to tropics regions of the Americas, Africa and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region....
    , Leptospermum
    Leptospermum

    Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and Leptospermum recurvum is endemic to Malaysia....
    , Lophostemon
    Lophostemon

    Lophostemon 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....
    , Malus
    Malus

    Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30?35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called ....
    , Melaleuca
    Melaleuca

    Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognized species, most of which are endemic to Australia....
    , Olearia
    Olearia

    Olearia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 130 different species within the genus found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand....
    , Pomaderris
    Pomaderris

    Pomaderris is a genus of 70 species of shrub to small tree in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. 65 of the species are native to Australia and the other five are from New Zealand....
    , Prostanthera
    Prostanthera

    Prostanthera commonly known as Mintbush, is a genus of plants of the family Lamiaceae. There are about 90 species within the genus, all of which are endemic to Australia....
    , Rubus
    Rubus

    Rubus is a large genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae. Raspberry, Blackberry, and Dewberry are common, widely distributed members of the genus....


  • Aenetus marginatus (New Guinea)
  • Aenetus mirabilis - North Queensland Swift Moth (Queensland)
  • Food plant: Alphitonia
    Alphitonia

    Alphitonia is an arborescent genus of flowering plants with about 20 species, belonging to the buckthorn family of the rosid eudicots. It occurs in tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Oceania and Polynesia....


  • Aenetus montanus (Australia)
  • Food plant: Eucalyptus


  • Aenetus ombraloma (Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)

    File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
    )
  • Food plant: Eucalyptus


  • Aenetus ramsayi (Queensland and New South Wales
    New South Wales

    New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
    )
  • Recorded food plants: Diploglottis
    Diploglottis

    Diploglottis is a genus of 10 species of tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. Eight of the species are found in eastern Australia, primarily as a rainforest tree and the other two are in eastern Malesia and New Caledonia....
    , Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....


  • Aenetus scotti (Australia)
  • Recorded food plants: Daphnandra, Dendrocnide
    Dendrocnide

    Dendrocnide is a genus of 37 species of shrub to large tree in the nettle family Urticaceae. They have a wide distribution across South-East Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands....
    , Diploglottis
    Diploglottis

    Diploglottis is a genus of 10 species of tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. Eight of the species are found in eastern Australia, primarily as a rainforest tree and the other two are in eastern Malesia and New Caledonia....
    , Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
    , Lantana
    Lantana

    Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plant flowering plants, native to tropics regions of the Americas, Africa and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region....
    , Tetradium
    Tetradium

    Tetradium is a genus of nine species 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 , but that genus is now restricted to tropical species ....


  • Aenetus scripta (Australia)
  • Aenetus sordida (New Guinea)
  • Aenetus splendens (Australia)
Recorded food plants: Callicoma
Callicoma

Callicoma, is a plant genus that contains just one species, Callicoma serratifolia , a tall shrub or small tree which is native to Australia....
, Casuarina
Casuarina

Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, southeastern Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean....
, Eugenia
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....
, Trema
Trema

Trema is a genus of about 15 species of evergreen trees closely related to the hackberries , occurring in subtropical and tropical regions of southern Asia, northern Australasia, Africa and South America and Central America....
  • Aenetus tegulatus (Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland)
  • Aenetus tephroptilus (Australia)
  • Aenetus toxopeusi (New Guinea)
  • Aenetus virescens - Puriri moth
    Puriri moth

    The puriri moth, Aenetus virescens, is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 millimetre....
     (North Island
    North Island

    The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....
    , New Zealand) (New Zealand's largest native moth)
  • Recorded food plants: Carpodetus, Citrus
    Citrus

    Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world....
    , Cornus
    Cornus

    Cornus may refer to*Cornus , the scientific name of the Dogwood, a genus of plant family Cornaceae.*Cornus, Aveyron, a commune in the Aveyron d?partement in France...
    , Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
    , Malus
    Malus

    Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30?35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called ....
    , Nothofagus
    Nothofagus

    Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of about 35 species of trees and shrub native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia ....
    , Oak
    Oak

    The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
    , Prunus
    Prunus

    Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, including the plums, cherry, peaches, apricots and almonds. It is traditionally placed within the rose family Rosaceae as a subfamily, the Prunoideae , but sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae ....
    , Willow
    Willow

    Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....

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