Oncopera fasciculatus

Oncopera fasciculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukarya
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Oncopera
Species:	O. fasciculatus
Binomial name
	Oncopera fasciculatus; (Walker, 1869)
Synonyms
	Hepialus fasciculatus Walker, 1869; Oncopera faciulata d’Abrera, 1974;

Oncopera fasciculatus, the underground grassgrub, is a moth of the family Hepialidae endemic to South Australia and Victoria.^[1]^[2] The fore wings are brown with a pattern of dark splotches. The hind wings are plain brown.^[3] The larvae live in vertical tunnels in the soil. They emerge at night to feed on the leaves of grasses in native and sown pastures.

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.
^ Australian Faunal Directory
^ Australian Insects

This article on a moth of the family Hepialidae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[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.

[2] Australian Faunal Directory

[3] Australian Insects

[1]

[2]

[3]