Species Aenetus splendens (Scott, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Charagia splendens 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. [6, pl. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM ♀, Ash Island, now part of Kooragang Island, Hunter River, NSW.
• Charagia acaciae 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. [828].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, no locality given.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [25]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva bores in stems of saplings of many plants. Larval foodplants: include Syzygium smithii, Callistemon, Eucalyptus, (Myrtaceae); Callicoma serratifolia (Cunionaceae); Trema aspera (Ulmaceae); Casuarina (Casuarinaceae); Dodonaea (Sapindaceae); Lantana camara (Verbenaceae); Pandorea pandorana (Bignoniaceae); Rubus (Rosaceae). Unlike other Aenetus, the larva retains intact at pupation the silk and sawdust web which covers the entrance to the larval bore, rather than destroying the web.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2017		17-Nov-2015	MOVED
26-Jun-2017	HEPIALIDAE	29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED