Bibliography for HEPIALIDAE

• Barton Brown, L.B., Soo Hoo, C.F., Gerwen, A.C.M. van & Sherwell, I.R. 1969. Mating flight behaviour in three species of Oncopera moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 168-172
• Beaver, E.P., Moore, M.D., Grehan, J.R., Velasco-Castrillón, A., & Stevens, M.I. 2020. Four new species of Splendid Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae: Aenetus) from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4809(3): 449-474
• Chadwick, C.E. 1966. Investigations on Plutorectis caespitosae Oke (Lep. Psychidae) and Oncopera alpina Tindale (Lep. Hepialidae) in the Australian Alps. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (N.S.W.) 3: 5-29
• 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. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls.
• De Baar, M. & Hockey, M. 2009. Zelotypia stacyi Scott (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) — a conservation perspective. Australian Entomologist 36(2): 85-88
• Donovan, E. 1805. An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans: including Figures and Descriptions of One Hundred and Fifty-three Species of the more Splendid, Beautiful, and Interesting Insects, hitherto Discovered in those Countries, and which for the most Part have not appeared in the Works of any Preceding Author. London : Rivington iv + [167] pp. + [41] pls. [Date published January]
• Edwards, E.D. & Green, K. 2011. Two new species of Oxycanus Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kosciusko National Park, one with a sub-brachypterous female. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 78-85
• Elder, R.J. 1965. Webworms damage northern tablelands pasture. Queensland Agricultural Journal 91: 566-568
• 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
• Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heterocera. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2).
• Froggatt, W.W. 1923. Forest Insects of Australia. Sydney : Alfred James Kent, Government Printer viii 171 pp. 2 colour pls.
• Hardy, R.J. 1973. The biology of Fraus simulans Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 30: 113-120
• Hardy, R.J. 1974. The biology and pest status of Oxycanus fuscomaculatus Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) in Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 317-328
• Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1853. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropaischer schmetterlinge. 1850-1858. Regensburg : Manz pls 1-16.
• Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1855. Systematischer Bearbeitung, &c. dessen neuen Schmetterlingen aus Europa, &c. dann der von Hübner abgebildeten Raupen, &c. Regensburg Vol. 1. [Date published June]
• Lewin, J.W. 1805. Prodromus Entomology. Natural History of Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. London : T. Bensley 18 pls and text (letterpress).
• Lower, O.B. 1892. Descriptions of New South Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15: 5-17
• Lower, O.B. 1894. New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113
• Lower, O.B. 1902. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 212-247
• Lucas, T.P. 1891. On Queensland and other Australian Lepidoptera with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6(2): 277-306
• Lucas, T.P. 1898. Descriptions of Queensland Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 13: 59-86
• Madge, P.E. 1954. A field study on the biology of the underground grass caterpillar, Oncopera fasciculata (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) in South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 2: 193-204
• Martyn, E.J. 1960. The ecology of Oncopera intricata Walker and Oncopera rufobrunnea Tindale (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) with notes on the classification of the genus Oncopera in relation to larval taxonomy. Research Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture of Tasmania 3: 1-64
• McCrum, E. 2003. The green banded ghost moth (Aenetus dulcis, Hepialidae. Western Australian Insect Study Society Newsletter Oct. 2003: 2-3
• Meyrick, E. 1890. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 4(4): 1117-1216 [year of publication not confirmed]
• Meyrick, E. 1917. Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1917: 1-52
• Middleton, B.L. 1941. Notes on the bent-wing moth (Leto stacyi Scott). Australian Naturalist 10: 270-272
• Moore, M.D. 2014. Hepialidae two further new species of Abantiades Herrichschäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 41(4): 217-231
• Moore, M.D., Beaver, E.P., Bradford, T., Hutchinson, P.M., Kay, P., Temby, N., Hamon, H. & Stevens, M.I. 2022. Two new species of Western Australian Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) and a description of the female of Abantiades paradoxa (Tindale). Zootaxa 5133(2): 201-255
• Moore, M.D., Beaver, E.P., Velasco-Castrillón, A. & Stevens, M.I. 2020. Description of two new Australian species of Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) and females of two further species with notes on their biogeography. Zootaxa 4822(1): 071-093
• Moore, M.D., Beaver, E.P., Velasco-Castrillón, A. & Stevens, M.I. 2020. Four new tri-forked species of the Australian genus Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from the “dark obscura clade”. Zootaxa 4801(1): 115-141
• Moore, M.D., Beaver, E.P., Velasco-Castrillón, A. & Stevens, M.I. 2021. Two new endemic species of Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia. Zootaxa 4951(3): 571-597
• Moore, M.D. & Edwards, E.D. 2014. Two new species of Abantiades Herrich-Schaffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 41(1): 29-44
• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.
• Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. & Wagner, D.L. 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)
• Nielsen, E.S. & Kristensen, N.P. 1989. Primitive Ghost Moths. Morphology and taxonomy of the Australian genus Fraus Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae s.lat.). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 1: i-xiii, 1-206
• Oke, C.G. 1953. Nature notes and exhibits. Entomology. Victorian Naturalist 70: 160 [Date published 10 December]
• Olliff, A.S. 1887. Notes on Zelotypia stacyi, and an account of a variety. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 467-470
• Olliff, A.S. 1895. Australian Hepialidae. The Entomologist 28: 114-117
• Olliff, A.S. & Prince, H. 1888. On a new Pielus from the Blue Mountains. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 2(4): 1015-1016, pl. 39 [year of publication not confirmed]
• Pagenstecher, A. 1888. Beiträge zur Lepidopterenfauna des Malayinschen Archipels. V. Verzeichniss der Schmetterlinge von Amboina. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 41: 87-217
• Pfitzner, R. 1909. Eine neue Hepialide aus West Australian. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 22: 138-139
• Pfitzner, R. 1914. Neue Hepialiden. Entomologische Rundschau 31: 95-96
• Pfitzner, R. in Pfitzner, R. & Gaede, M. 1933. Hepialidae. 825-847, pls 73-78, 100 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls.
• Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Kristensen, N.P., Davis, D.R., van Nieukerken, E.J., Rota, J., Simonsen, T.J., Mitter, K.T., Kawahara, A.Y., Yen, S.-H., Cummings, M.P. & Zwick, A. 2015. A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life-history evolution. Systematic Entomology 40(4): 671–704 [Date published online 28 May 2015]
• Rothschild, L.W. 1894. On a new species of the Hepialid genus Oenetus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 13: 440
• Scoble, M.J. 1992. The Lepidoptera. Form, Function and Diversity. Oxford : Natural History Museum Publications & Oxford University Press xi + 404 pp.
• Scott, A.W. 1864. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott. 1. London : John van Voorst [ii]+36 pp., pls 1-9.
• Scott, A.W. 1865. [minutes of meeting held 1 August 1864]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1(3): xxxviii-xxxix
• Scott, A.W. 1869. Description of a new genus belonging to the family Hepialidae of Stephens. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 36-39
• Scott, A.W. 1869. On the genus Charagia of Walker. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 25-35
• Simonsen, T.J. 2015. Elhamma Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) revisited: adult morphology, assessment of recently proposed synonyms and descriptions of two species. Zootaxa 3955(3): 301–328
• Simonsen, T.J. 2018. Splendid ghost moths and their allies in Australia : A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Clayton South, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 12 312 pp. [Date published 1/3/2018]
• Simonsen, T.J., Moore, M.D., Dupont, S.T. & Stevens, M.I. 2019. Testing DNA barcodes against morphology for the ‘tripectinate Abantiades’ (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) reveals a complex relationship between COI sequence data and morphology. Austral Entomology
• Swainson, W. 1851. Review. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations. Sydney Morning Herald 30 August 1851: 2
• Swinhoe, C. 1892. Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 1. Sphinges and Bombyces. Oxford : Claredon Press viii+324 pp., 8 pls.
• Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney. xvi+560 pp., 44 pls
• Tindale, N.B. 1932. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part I. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4: 497-536
• Tindale, N.B. 1933. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 13-43
• Tindale, N.B. 1935. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera, Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 275-332
• Tindale, N.B. 1941. Revision of the ghost moths (Lepidoptera, Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part IV. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7(1): 15-46, pls 5-7, text-figs 1-51
• Tindale, N.B. 1953. On a new species of Oenetus (Lepidoptera, Family Hepialidae) damaging Eucalyptus saplings in Tasmania. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 76: 77-79, pl. 6 [Date published 31 December]
• Tindale, N.B. 1955. Revision of the ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part VI. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11: 307-344, pls 26-32
• Tindale, N.B. 1964. Revision of the ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part VIII. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 663-668, pls 46, 47
• Turner, A.J. 1904. New Australian Lepidoptera...with synonomic notes and other notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 212-247
• Turner, A.J. 1911. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Annals of the Queensland Museum 10: 59-135
• Turner, A.J. 1915. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 27: 11-57
• Turner, A.J. 1916. A new Micropterygid from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1915: 391-393
• Turner, A.J. 1922. Observations on the structure of some Australian Lepidoptera Homoneura including the diagnoses of two families. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1921: 592-604
• Turner, A.J. 1926. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 120-155
• Turner, A.J. 1927. New and little known Tasmanian Lepidoptera. Part II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1926: 119-164
• Turner, A.J. 1929. New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 297-308
• Turner, A.J. 1939. A second revision of the Lepidoptera of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 57-115
• Turner, A.J. in Eyer, J.R. & Turner, A.J. 1925. The Australian species of Oncopera (Hepialidae, Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 272-274
• Viette, P. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. Contribution a L'Étude des Hepialidae (Lep.). Nouveaux genres et espèces néo-guinéens. Treubia 21(2): 257-262
• Viette, P.E.L. 1950. Contribution à l'Etude des Hepialidae. (22ème note) Hepialidae du Musée de Leiden. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 31(7): 67-77
• Walker, F. 1856. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 7: 1508-1808 [incl. Index to parts 1-7] [published May 1856]
• Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April]
• Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp.

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