Hepialidae

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), Journal of Natural History 34 (6), pp. 823-878 : 828-829

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Hepialidae
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Nearctic: Wagner (1985, 1987, 1988); Wagner and Tindale (1988); Ferguson (1979); P®tzner (1937±38); Barnes and Benjamin (1926); Forbes (1923).

Neotropical: Nielsen and Robinson (1983); Robinson (1977); Tindale (1954); Viette (1949b,c, 1950b,d,f,g, 1951a,b,e, 1952a,c, 1953a,b, 1956a, 1961b); P®tzner (1937±38); Schaus (1901); Druce (1887, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1900, 1901).

Palaearctic: de Freina and Witt (1990); Tindale (1941); P®tzner (1912).

Afrotropical: Nielsen and Scoble (1986); Viette (1947, 1950a, 1956a); Janse (1942); Gaede (1930).

Oriental: Nielsen (1988); Chu and Wang (1985a,b); Tindale (1941, 1942, 1958); Viette (1949a, 1950 e, 1953c, 1968); P®tzner and Gaede (1933).

Australasia: Common (1966, 1990); Nielsen and Kristensen (1989); Robinson (1975); Tindale (1932, 1933, 1935, 1953, 1955, 1964); Viette (1950c,i, 1952b, 1956b, 1961a); P®tzner and Gaede (1933); Turner (1928).

New Zealand: Dugdale (1994); Dumbleton (1966); Hudson (1898, 1928, 1939).

Key papers on exoporian morphology, biology and other topics (most recent given ®rst) include:

Morphology, phylogeny and classi®cation: Brown et al. (in press); Friedlander et al. (in press); Nielsen and Kristensen (1989,199 6); Kristensen and Nielsen (1980, 1981a, 1981b 1994); Sattler (1991); Kuznetzov and Stekolnikov (1986); Minet (1984); Kristensen (1968, 1970, 1978a, 1978b, 1978 c, 1979, 1984); Ueda (1978, 1980, 1981, 1982); Joubert (1978); Flower and Helson (1976); Dugdale (1974); Birket-Smith (1974); Mutuura (1972); Hasenfuss (1969); Gaskin (1964); Viette (1949g); Bourgogne (1949a, 1949b); Paclt (1949, 1957); Philpott (1922 a, 1922b, 1925, 1926 a, 1926b, 1927b); Eyer (1921, 1924); Botke (1916); van Bemmelen (1916a, 1916b); Deegener and Schaposchniko w (1904); Quail (1903b); Deegener (1902); Dodd (1902).

Immature stages: Leonard et al. (1992); Dugdale (1994); Wagner et al. (1989); McCabe and Wagner (1988); Wagner (1987); Yasuda and Abe (1986); Grehan et al. (1983); Grehan (1979, 1981, 1983a,b); Chauvin and Barbier (1979); Hardy (1973b); Waller (1966); Aitkenhead and Baker (1964); Elder (1970, 1971, 1978); Hinton (1946); Janse (1939, 1940); Gerasimov (1937); Mosher (1916); Swaine (1909); Williams (1905a); Packard (1895).

Biology and behaviour: Andersson et al. (1998); Rydell (1998); Lin et al. (1995); Boudinot (1991); Wagner and Rosovsky (1991); Wagner et al. (1989); Grehan (1983a,b,c, 1987a,b, 1989); McCabe and Wagner (1988); Yasuda and Abe (1986); Wagner (1985); Grehan and Patrick (1984); Mallet (1984); French and Pearson (1979, 1981); Gibbs (1979); Perju and Ghizdavu (1977); Linnaluoto (1976); Turner (1976); Mikkola (1974); Hardy (1973 a, 1974); Reynolds (1973); van Gerwen et al. (1972); Helson and Penman (1970); Leuschner (1970); Wood (1970); Fenemore and Allen (1969); Browne et al. (1969); Opler (1968); Helson (1967); Abdelrahman (1966); Matsuzawa et al. (1966); Martyn (1960); Carolsfeld-Krause (1959); Harper (1959, 1960); d’ Aguilar and Cherblanc (1959); Madge (1954); Salmon (1951, 1958); Daniel (1950); Hudson (1885, 1906,1950); Michael (1949); Sankey (1948); Dick (1945); Dumbleton (1945); Hanson (1938); Sonan (1938); Hill (1929); Slastshevkij (1929a,b, 1930); Blair (1918); Bethune- Baker (1913); BeutenmuÈller (1913); Cockayne and Jackson (1913); McDunnough (1911); Winn (1909); Manders (1908); Denny (1907); Williams (1905b); Quail (1900); McArthur (1895); Robson (1887a,b, 1891, 1892); Stainton (1887); Barrett (1882, 1886); Chapman (1876, 1886).

Pheromones: Schultz et al. (1990); Kubo et al. (1985); Sinnwell et al. (1985); Uchino et al. (1985).

Pest status, parasites, pathogens and control: Grehan (1982, 1984); Grehan and Wigley (1984); Crawford and KalmakoOE (1977); Milner (1977); Milner and Beaton (1977); Farrell et al. (1974); Chen et al. (1973); Moore et al. (1973); Moore (1972); Fowler and Robertson (1972); Lloyd et al. (1967); Kalshoven (1965); Toyomura and Matsuzawa (1965); Edwards (1964); Edwards and Dennis (1960); Milyanovskii and Mitrofanov (1952); Cameron (1950, 1951); Cunningham (1921).

Fossil history: Jarzembowski (1980); Robinson (1977); Pierce (1945).

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BARNES, W. and BENJAMIN, F. H., [1926] 1925, The hyperboreus group of Hepialus (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), Pan-Paci ® c Entomologist, 2, 81 ± 84.

BARRETT, C. G., 1882, Odour emitted by the male of Hepialus hectus, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 19, 90 ± 91.

BARRETT, C. G., 1886, Singular habit of Hepialus hectus, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 23, 110.

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BLAIR, W. G., 1918, On the`calling' attitude of Hepialus sylvinus, Entomologist, 51, 212.

BOTKE, J., 1916, A contribution to the knowledge of the phylogeny of the wing-markings in Lepidoptera, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, Koninklijke (Nederlandse) Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, 18, 1557 ± 1563.

BOUDINOT, J., 1991, Biologie d' Aenetus cohici Viette (Lepidoptera Hepialidae), in: J. Chazeau and S. Tillier (eds), Zoologia Neocaledonica 2. MeAmoires du MuseAum National d'Histoire Naturelle (A), 149, pp. 167 ± 175.

BOURGOGNE, J., 1949 a, Un type nouveau d'appareil genital femelle chez les LeApidopteAres, Annales de la SocieAteA Entomologique de France, 115, 69 ± 80.

BOURGOGNE, J., 1949 b, L'appareil geAnital femelle de quelques Hepialidae, Bulletin de la SocieAteA Zoologique de France, 74, 284 ± 291.

BROWNE, L. B., HOO, C. F. S., VAN GERWEN, A. C. M. and SHERWELL, I. R., 1969, Mating ¯ ight behaviour in three species of Oncopera moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 8, 168 ± 172.

CAMERON, E., 1950, The biology and economic importance of Alomya debellator (F.), a remarkable parasite of the swift moth, Hepialus lupulinus (L.), Bulletin of Entomological Research, 41, 429 ± 438.

CAMERON, E., 1951, On the identity of an ichneumonid parasite of Hepialus lupulinus (L.), Bulletin of Entomological Research, 41, 637.

CHAPMAN, T. A., 1876, Note on the pendulum-action in ¯ ight of male Hepialus humuli, Entomologist ' s Monthly Magazine, 13, 63 ± 64.

CHAPMAN, T. A., 1886., On the ¯ ight and pairing of Hepialus humuli, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 23, 164 ± 165.

CHAUVIN, G. and BARBIER, R., 1979, Morphogenese de 1 ' enveloppe vitelline, ultra-structure du chorion et de la cuticule serosale chez Korscheltellus lupulinus L. (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 8, 375 ± 386.

CHEN, T. L., TANG, C. C. and HAO, C. L., 1973, A preliminary study on the biology of the`Insect Herb', Hepialus armoricanus Oberthur, Acta Entonologica Sinica, 16, 198 ± 202, [in Chinese].

CHU, H. F. and WANG, L. Y., 1985 a,`Insect ± herb' versus hepialids with descriptions of new genera and species of Chinese Hepialidae, Sinozoologia, 3, 121 ± 134.

COCKAYNE, E. A. and JACKSON, F. W. J., 1913, Courtship of Hepialus hecta, Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 25, 195 ± 196.

COMMON, I. F. B., 1966, A new species of Oncopera (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from New South Wales, with taxonomic notes on the genus, Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland, 5, 18 ± 28.

COMMON, I. F. B., 1990, Hepialoidea, in: Moths of Australia. (Melbourne University Press), pp. 140 ± 150.

CUNNINGHAM, G. H., 1921, The genus Cordyceps in New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 53, 372 ± 382.

D' AGUILAR, J. and CHERBLANC, G., 1959, Note biologique sur une hepiale: Korscheltellus lupulinus L. (Lep. Hepialidae) nuisible aux fraisiers de Plougastel-Daoulas (FinisteAre) et essais preliminaires de lutte chimique, Phytiatrie-phytopharmacie, 8, 111 ± 116.

DANIEL, F., 1950, Beobachtung uEber die Lebensweise hochalpiner Vertreter der Gattung Hepialus, Mitteilungen der MuEnchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 40, 203 ± 206.

DE FREINA, J. J. and WITT, T., 1990, Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalaearktis (Insecta, Lepidoptera). (MuEnchen: Edition Forschung and Wissenschaft), Band 2, [vi] 1 134 pp.

DEEGENER, P., 1902, Das Duftorgan von Hepialus hectus L., Zeitschrift fuEr wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 71, 276 ± 295.

DENNY, E., 1907, Notes on the collecting of Sthenopis (Hepialus) thule, Canadian Entomologist, 39, 402 ± 404.

DICK, R. D., 1945, Ecological observations on Oxycanus cervinata, New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology A, 27, 32 ± 38.

DODD, F. P., 1902, Scent organs of Hepialidae, Entomologist, 35, 73.

DRUCE, H., 1887, Hepialidae, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoologia. Insecta. Lepidoptera Heterocera, 1, 231 ± 234.

DRUCE, H., 1889, Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera, chie ¯ y from Cenral America, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 4 (6), 77 ± 94.

DRUCE, H., 1890, Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Central and South America, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1890, 493 ± 520.

DRUCE, H., 1892, Description of a new genus and some new species of Heterocera from Central America, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9 (6), 275 ± 279.

DRUCE, H., 1900, Descriptions of some new genera and species of Heterocera from tropical South America, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5 (7), 507 ± 527.

DRUCE, H., 1901, Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera from East Africa and tropical America, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 (7), 432 ± 444.

DUGDALE, J. S., 1974, Female genitalia con ® guration in the classi ® cation of Lepidoptera, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1, 127 ± 146.

DUGDALE, J. S., 1994, Hepialidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Fauna of New Zealand, 30, 1 ± 161.

DUMBLETON, L. J., 1945, Contribution to the ecology of Oxycanus cervinata Walk, New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology A, 27 (2), 114 ± 128.

DUMBLETON, L. J., 1966, Genitalia, classi ® cation and zoogeography of the New Zealand Hepialidae (Lepidoptera), New Zealand Journal of Science, 9, 920 ± 981.

EDWARDS, C. A. and DENNIS, E. B., 1960, Observations on the biology and control of the garden swift moth, Plant Pathology, 9, 95 ± 99.

EDWARDS, C. A., 1964, The bionomics of swift moths. I. The ghost swift moth, Hepialus humuli (L.), Bulletin of Entomological Research, 55, 147 ± 160.

ELDER, R. J., 1970, Larval taxonomy of Oncopera brachyphylla Turner and its distinction from Oncopera mitocera (Turner), Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Sciences, 27, 123 ± 128. [Also published as Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Division of Plant Industry Bulletin no. 533.]

ELDER, R. J., 1971, Distinction between eggs and pupae of Oncopera brachyphylla Turner and Oncopera mitocera (Turner), Queensland Journal of Agricultural Science, 28, 23 ± 28.

ELDER, R. J., 1978, Notes on the biology and descriptions of the life stages of Oncopera parva Tindale (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 17, 5 ± 11.

EYER, J. R., 1921, The comparative morphology of the male genitalia of the lepidopterous family Hepialidae, Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 16, 1 ± 8.

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FARRELL, J. A. K., SWENEY, W. J. and JONES, A. E., 1974, Plant resistance to the porina caterpillar Wiseana cervinata (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). I. Resistance in legumes and grasses, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 17, 373 ± 878.

FENEMORE, P. G. and ALLEN, V. A. L., 1969, Oviposition preference and larval survival in Wiseana cervinata (Walker), Hepialidae, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 12, 146 ± 161.

FERGUSON, D. C., 1979, A new ghost moth from the southern Appalachian Mountains (Hepialidae), Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 33, 192 ± 196.

FLOWER, N. E. and HELSON, G. A. H., 1976, Variation in antennas sensilla of some hepialid moths; a scanning electron microscope study, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 3, 327 ± 331.

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FOWLER, M. and ROBERTSON, J. S., 1972, Iridescent virus infection in ® eld populations of Wiseana cervinata (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) and Witlesia sp. (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) in New Zealand, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 19, 154 ± 155.

FRENCH, R. A. and PEARSON, J. F., 1979, Inuence of temperature on the rate of development of porina (Wiseana spp.: Hepialidae) eggs and timing of larval emergence in the ® eld, New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 7, 315 ± 319.

FRENCH, R. A. and PEARSON, J. F., 1981, Food intake and feeding behaviour of porina (Wiseana spp.: Hepialidae), New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 9, 383 ± 386.

GAEDE, M., 1930, 24. Familie: Hepialidae, in A. Seitz (ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14, Die Afrikanischen Spinner and SchwaErmer. (Stuttgart), pp. 553 ± 559.

GASKIN, D. E., 1964, Distinction between Wiseana umbraculata and W. signata (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) with light trapping records for Wellington, New Zealand Journal of Science, 7 (3), 396 ± 408.

GERASIMOV, A. S., 1937, Hepialidenraupen (Lepidoptera), Entomologische Zeitschrift, 51, 81 ± 84.

GIBBS, G. W., 1979, Some notes on the biology and status of the Mnesarchaeidae (Lepidoptera), New Zealand Journal of Entomology, 7, 2 ± 9.

GREHAN, J. R., 1979, Larvae of Aenetus virescens (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) in decaying wood, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 6, 583 ± 586.

GREHAN, J. R., 1981, Morphological changes in the tree-phase development of Aenetus virescens larvae (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 8, 505 ± 514.

GREHAN, J. R., 1982, Infection of Aenetus virescens (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) larvae by the fungus Beauvaria bassiana, New Zealand Entomologist, 7, 327 ± 329.

GREHAN, J. R., MOEED, A. and MEADS, M. J., 1983, Observations on Trioxycanus enysii (Butler) (sensu Meyrick, 1890) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand, with a description of larval chaetotaxy, New Zealand Entomologist, 7, 408 ± 413.

GREHAN, J. R., 1983 a, Observations on Trioxycanus enysii (Butl.) (sensu Meyrick, 1890) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand, with a description of larval chaetotaxy, New Zealand Entomologist, 7, 408 ± 413.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hepialidae