Jeana delicatula

Jeana delicatula is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to Tasmania and Victoria.[1][2]

Jeana delicatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Jeana
Species:
J. delicatula
Binomial name
Jeana delicatula
Tindale, 1935

The larvae are subterranean and probably feed on the roots and bases of grasses.

References

  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. S2CID 86004391.
  2. Australian Faunal Directory


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