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Oncopera alpina

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Species of moth

Oncopera alpina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Oncopera
Species: O. alpina
Binomial name
Oncopera alpina
Tindale, 1933
Synonyms
  • Oncopera nebulosa Tindale, 1933

Oncopera alpina is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria.

The larvae are subterranean and feed on roots and bases of snow grasses (Poa species).

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
Taxon identifiers
Oncopera alpina


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