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Hepialidae of the World - List of Genera and Links to Species

The following generic list follows the taxonomic checklist of Nielsen, E. S., G. S. Robinson, and D. L. Wagner. 2000. Ghost moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera). Journal of Natural History 34, 823-878.

Genera are arranged in alphabetical order within the 'primitive Hepialidae' and 'Hepialidae s.str.'

Links will be gradually incorporated to illustrate species and biology.

 'primitive Hepialidae'        Images  
 FRAUS Walker, 1856  Australia
 AFROTHEORA Nielsen and Scoble, 1986  South Africa/Angola/Tanzania

 ANTIHEPIALUS Janse, 1942

  South Africa/Kenya/Uganda
 GAZORYCTRA Hübner, [1821]  Eurasia/USA/Canada
   
 Hepialidae s.str.  
 ABANTIADES Herrich-Schäffer, 1855  Australia
 ANDEABATIS Nielsen and Robinson, 1983

 

 Chile
 AENETUS  Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

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 Australia, NZ, NG, NC, Indonesia

 AORAIA Dumbleton, 1966

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 New Zealand
 APLATISSA Viette, 1953  Brazil
 BIPECTILIS Chu and Wang, 1985  China/Vietnam/Nepal
 BLANCHARDINA Viette, 1950  Chile
 BORDAIA Tindale, 1932  Australia
 CALADA Nielsen and Robinson, 1983  Argentina
 CALLIPIELUS Butler, 1882

 

 Chile/Argentina

 CIBYRA Walker, 1856 (subgenera below)

  Mexico/Central and South America

        AEPYTUS Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]

  Brazil/Boliva/Argentina
        ALLOAEPYTUS Viette, 1951  Paraguay/Brazil
        CIBYRA Walker, 1856   Brazil
        GYMELLOXES Viette, 1952  Mexico/Panama/Colombia/Ecuador  
        HAMPSONIELLA Viette, 1950  Ecuador/Mexico/Guatemala
        HEPIALYXODES Viette, 1951  Brazil
        LAMELLIFORMIA Viette, 1952  Brazil
        PARAGORGOPIS Viette, 1952  Brazil
        PHILOENIA Kirby, 1892  Brazil/northern South America
        PSEUDODALACA Viette, 1950  Mexico
        PSEUDOPHILAENIA Viette, 1951  Peru
        SCHAEFFERIANA Viette, 1950  Brazil
        THIASTYX Viette, 1951  Brazil
        TRICLADIA Felder, 1874  Boliva/Brazil
        XYTROPS Viette, 1951  Brazil
        YLEUXAS Viette, 1951  Peru/Venezuela
 CLADOXYCANUS Dumbleton, 1966  New Zealand
 DALACA auctt. nec Walker, 1856  Panama to /Brazil/Paraguay
 DALACA Walker, 1856  Chile/Argentina
 DIOXYCANUS Dumbleton, 1966  New Zealand
 DRUCEIELLA Viette, 1949b

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 Costa Rica/Panama/South America
 DUMBLETONIUS Dugdale, 1998  New Zealand
 ELHAMMA Walker, 1856

 

 Australia/New Guinea
 ENDOCLITA Felder, 1874

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 India/East-Southeast Asia
 EUDALACA Viette, 1950  Southern Africa
 GORGOPIS Hübner, [1820]  South Africa/Tanzania
 HELOXYCANUS Dugdale, 1994  New Zealand
 HEPIALISCUS Hampson, [1893]  India/Nepal/China/Taiwan
 HEPIALUS Fabricius, 1775  Europe
 JEANA Tindale, 1935  Australia
 KORSCHELTELLUS Börner, 1920

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 Canada/USA/western Europe
 LETO Hübner, [1820]

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 South Africa
 METAHEPIALUS Janse, 1942  South Africa
 NAPIALUS Chu and Wang, 1985  China

 NEOHEPIALISCUS Viette, 1948

  North Africa
 ONCOPERA Walker, 1856  Australia
 OXYCANUS Walker, 1856  Australia/New Guinea
 PALPIFER Hampson, [1893]  (India/Japan/Java/Nepal/Borneo)
 PARAHEPIALISCUS Viette, 1950  Borneo
 PARAPIELUS Viette, 1949  Chile and Argentina
 PFITZNERIANA Viette, 1952  Colombia/Bolivia/Venezuela
 PFITZNERIELLA Viette, 1951  Ecuador/Peru
 PHARMACIS Hübner, [1820]  Europe/western Russia
 PHASSODES  Bethune-Backer, 1905  Fiji/Samoa
 PHASSUS Walker, 1856  Mexico south to Brazil

 PHIALUSE Viette, 1961

  Bolivia
 PHYMATOPUS Wallengren, 1869  Europe/Russia/Japan
 PHYMATOPUS auctt. nec. Wallengren, 1869  United States
 PUERMYTRANS Viette, 1951

 

 Chile
 ROSEALA Viette, 1950  Brazil
 SCHAUSIANA  Viette, 1950  Mexico
 STHENOPIS Packard, [1865]

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 Canada/USA
 STHENOPIS auctt. nec. Packard, [1865]  China

 THITARODES Viette, 1961

  China/Nepal/Borneo/Russia/Japan
 TRICHOPHASSUS LeCerf, 1919  South eastern Brazil
 TRICTENA Meyrick, 1932  Australia
 TRIODIA Hübner, [1820]  Europe/western Russia
 XHOAPHRYX Viette, 1953  Vietnam
 WISEANA Viette, 1961 New Zealand
 ZELOTYPIA Scott, 1869

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 Australia
 ZENOPHASSUS Tindale, 1941 Caucassus

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