Biology:List of Lepidoptera that feed on Eucalyptus
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Gum trees, Eucalyptus species, are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). These include:
Monophagous
Species which feed exclusively on Eucalyptus
- Bucculatricidae
- Hepialidae
- Abantiades latipennis (pindi moth) – root feeder, only on messmate stringybark (E. obliqua) and stringy gum (E. regnans)
- Aenetus montanus – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ombraloma – trunk burrower
Polyphagous
Species which feed on Eucalyptus among other plants
- Arctiidae
- Eupseudosoma aberrans
- Eupseudosoma involutum (snowy eupseudosoma)
- Hepialidae
- Other Abantiades spp.[1] – root feeders
- Aenetus eximia – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ligniveren – trunk burrower
- Aenetus ramsayi – trunk burrower
- Aenetus scotti – trunk burrower
- Aenetus virescens (pūriri moth) – trunk burrower
- Endoclita auratus
- Endoclita hosei
- Endoclita malabaricus
- Endoclita undulifer
- Trichophassus giganteus
- Zelotypia stacyi (bentwing ghost moth) – trunk burrower
- Noctuidae
- Agrotis segetum (turnip moth)
- Oecophoridae
- All known species of Crossophora
- Tortricidae
- "Cnephasia" jactatana (black-lyre leafroller moth)
References
- ↑ Simonsen, Thomas (2018). Splendid Ghost Moths and Their Allies: A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae). Csiro Publishing. ISBN 9781486307494.
External links
- Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Hostplant Genus: Eucalyptus". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/list.dsml?&PGenus=Eucalyptus&sort=Family.
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