Biology:Fraus pteromela

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Short description: Species of moth

Fraus pteromela
Fraus pteromela.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Fraus
Species:
F. pteromela
Binomial name
Fraus pteromela
(Lower, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hectomanes pteromela Lower, 1892

Fraus pteromela is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in most of the southern half of Australia .

The wingspan is about 25 mm for males and 35 mm for females.[2]

References

  1. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David 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. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. http://johngrehan.net/files/1013/8578/1218/Nielsen_et_al_2000_Hepialidae.pdf. 
  2. Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (February 2, 2009). "Fraus pteromela". uts.edu.au. Archived from the original on August 3, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080803035010/http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/hepi/pterom.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5493989 entry