Oncopera brachyphylla
| Oncopera brachyphylla | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Oncopera |
| Species: | O. brachyphylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Oncopera brachyphylla Turner, 1925
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Oncopera brachyphylla is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Queensland, Australia.[1]
The larvae are subterranean and feed on the roots and bases of grasses and leaves in sown pastures.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Australian Faunal Directory
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