Phymatopus
Encyclopedia
Phymatopus is a genus of moth
s of the family Hepialidae
. There are six described species scattered across the Northern Hemisphere
, placed in two groupshttp://www.sciencebuff.org/genera_and_species.php.
Phymatopus auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the family Hepialidae
Hepialidae
The Hepialidae is 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:...
. There are six described species scattered across the Northern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
, placed in two groupshttp://www.sciencebuff.org/genera_and_species.php.
Species
Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869- Phymatopus hecta Gold SwiftGold SwiftThe Gold Swift is a species of moth belonging to the family Hepialidae. Until recently it was placed in the genus Hepialus. It is a widespread species of Europe, its distribution following that of its foodplant, bracken....
- EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting... - Phymatopus japonicus - JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- Food plant: Pteridium
- Phymatopus hectica - Eastern RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Phymatopus auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
- Phymatopus behrensii - United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- Recorded food plants: HeleniumHeleniumHelenium is a genus of about 40 herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to North America and Central America. They bear yellow or orange daisy-like flowers...
, Lupinus, MalusMalusMalus , the apples, are 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 Orchard Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called...
, various fernFernA fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem . They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants...
s - Phymatopus californicus - United States
- Recorded food plants: BaccharisBaccharisBaccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family . They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely...
, EriophyllumEriophyllumEriophyllum, commonly known as the woolly sunflower, is a genus of annual or herbaceous perennial plant native to western North America, with a concentration of narrow endemics in the California Floristic Province.... - Phymatopus hectoides - United States
- Recorded food plants: BaccharisBaccharisBaccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family . They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely...
, HorkeliaHorkeliaHorkelia is a genus of plants in the rose family. It includes several species of plants known commonly as horkelias. These are flowering plants closely related to the cinquefoils and sometimes considered part of the same genus. There are nineteen species found in western North America, especially...
, ScrophulariaScrophulariaThe genus Scrophularia of the family Scrophulariaceae comprises about 200 species of herbaceous flowering plants commonly known as figworts. Species of Scrophularia all share square stems, opposite leaves and open two-lipped flowers forming clusters at the end of their stems...