Cladoxycanus
Appearance
Cladoxycanus minos | |
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Female (top) and male (bottom) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hepialidae |
Genus: | Cladoxycanus Dumbleton, 1966 |
Species: | C. minos
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Binomial name | |
Cladoxycanus minos (Hudson, 1905)[1]
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Synonyms | |
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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]
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.
- ^ "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.
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