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Phymatopus
	Phymatopus hecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Phymatopus; Wallengren, 1869 or auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869
Species
	See text.

Phymatopus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are six described species scattered across the Northern Hemisphere, placed in two groups^[1][1].

Species

Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869

Phymatopus hecta Gold Swift - Europe
Phymatopus japonicus - Japan

Food plant: Pteridium

Phymatopus hectica - Eastern Russia

Phymatopus auctt. nec Wallengren, 1869

Phymatopus behrensii - United States

Recorded food plants: Helenium, Lupinus, Malus, various ferns

Phymatopus californicus - United States

Recorded food plants: Baccharis, Eriophyllum

Phymatopus hectoides - United States

Recorded food plants: Baccharis, Horkelia, Scrophularia

Cited references

^ Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823-878.

External links

Hepialidae genera

[1] Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823-878.

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