Biology:Oncopera

Short description: Genus of moths

Oncopera
Oncopera intricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Oncopera Walker, 1856
Species
See text
Synonyms
Oncoptera Meyrick, 1890 Paroncopera Tindale, 1933 Onchopera Birket-Smith, 1974 Onchoptera Birket-Smith, 1974

Oncopera is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 12 described species, all endemic to Australia . The larvae usually feed on grasses, although that of O. intricata has been recorded on strawberry.

Species

• Oncopera alboguttata (Ebor grassgrub) - New South Wales
• Oncopera alpina (alpine grassgrub) - New South Wales

• Food plant: Poa

• Oncopera brachyphylla (roundheaded pasture webworm) - Queensland

• Food plants include Panicum

• Oncopera brunneata
• Oncopera epargyra
• Oncopera fasciculatus (underground grassgrub) - Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria
• Oncopera intricata (corbie) - Tasmania

• Larva recorded on Fragaria as well as grasses

• Oncopera intricoides
• Oncopera mitocera (flatheaded pasture webworm) - Queensland

• Food plants include Digitaria, Panicum and Setaria

• Oncopera parva
• Oncopera rufobrunnea (winter corbie) - New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
• Oncopera tindalei (Tindale's grassgrub) - New South Wales (named after Norman Barnett Tindale)

External links

• Hepialidae genera

Wikidata ☰ Q7092109 entry