Phymatopus japonicus is a species of moth belonging to the family Hepialidae. It was described by Hiroshi Inoue in 1982, and is known from Japan, from which its species epithet is derived. The food plant for this species is Pteridium.
Phymatopus japonicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hepialidae |
Genus: | Phymatopus |
Species: | P. japonicus
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Binomial name | |
Phymatopus japonicus |
References
edit- ^ 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 )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.