Cladoxycanus

Cladoxycanus is a monotypic genus of moths belonging to the family Hepialidae. It consists of only one species, Cladoxycanus minos, which is endemic to New Zealand.^[2]C. minos was first described by George Hudson in 1905.^[3]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are attracted to light and have been collected via a mercury vapour light trap.^[4]

References

↑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.
↑"Cladoxycanus minos (Hudson, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
↑Hudson, George Vernon (1905). "On some new species of macrolepidoptera in New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 37: 355–358 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
↑B. H. Patrick; R. D. Archibald (January 1988). "Lepidoptera light-trapped at Owaka, South Otago". New Zealand Entomologist. 11 (1): 70–72. doi:10.1080/00779962.1988.9722541. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q105740584.

External links

Hepialidae genera

[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. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[2] "Cladoxycanus minos (Hudson, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-08-24.

[3] Hudson, George Vernon (1905). "On some new species of macrolepidoptera in New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 37: 355–358 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[4] B. H. Patrick; R. D. Archibald (January 1988). "Lepidoptera light-trapped at Owaka, South Otago". New Zealand Entomologist. 11 (1): 70–72. doi:10.1080/00779962.1988.9722541. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q105740584.

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