Phymatopus

Taxobox
name = "Phymatopus"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Phymatopus hecta"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hepialidae
genus = "Phymatopus"
genus_authority = Wallengren, 1869 or auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Phymatopus" is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are six described species scattered across the Northern Hemisphere, placed in two groups [Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) "Journal of Natural History", 34(6): 823-878.] [http://www.sciencebuff.org/genera_and_species.php] .

pecies

"Phymatopus" Wallengren, 1869
*"P. hecta" Gold Swift - Europe
*"P. japonicus" - Japan:*Food plant: "Pteridium"
*"P. hectica" - Eastern Russia"Phymatopus" auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
*"P. behrensii" - United States:*Recorded food plants: "Helenium", "Lupinus", "Malus", various ferns
*"P. californicus" - United States:*Recorded food plants: "Baccharis", "Eriophyllum"
*"P. hectoides" - United States:*Recorded food plants: "Baccharis", "Horkelia", "Scrophularia"

Cited references

External links

* [http://www.sciencebuff.org/genera_and_species.php Hepialidae genera]