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The Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) of Papua Indonesia

by Rob de Vos

 

Aenetus sordida (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)

 

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: A very rare species. The only specimen found in Papua is a female during the Foja Mountains expedition.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Foja Mountains. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

 

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Literatuur

Nielsen, E.S., G.S. Robinson & D.L. Wagner, 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.
Rothschild, W., 1896. New Lepidoptera. Novitates Zoologicae 3(2): 322-328.