Oxycanus australis

Oxycanus australis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Oxycanus
Species:
O. australis
Binomial name
Oxycanus australis
Walker, 1856[1]

Oxycanus australis is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.[2]

The larvae possibly feed on Leptospermum laevigatum.

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 )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391.
  2. ^ Australian Faunal Directory


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