Phassodes is a moth genus of the family Hepialidae. As of 2018[update], it is monospecific, consisting of the sole species Phassodes vitiensis; this species is very variable. It is found in Fiji and Samoa.[4] The life cycle is unknown but the larva is presumed to feed underground on the roots of plants or decaying matter.[5]
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| Six specimens from Viti Levu, Fiji | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Phassodes Bethune-Baker, 1905[1] |
| Type species | |
| Phassodes odorevalvula Bethune-Baker, 1905[1]
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Taxonomic history edit
The British entomologist George Thomas Bethune-Baker first circumscribed the genus Phassodes in 1905. He included six species, all of which he described in the same work.[1] In 1950, the French entomologist Pierre Viette synonymized Bethune-Baker's P. nausori with P. vitiensis;[6] P. vitiensis was first described by Walter Rothschild in 1895.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1905). "Notes on a small Collection of Heterocera from the Fiji Islands, with Descriptions of some New Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1905 (1): 89–92. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1905.tb08365.x; Pl. 9, Figs. 1–6.
{{cite journal}}: External link in|postscript= - ^ Nielsen, Robinson & Wagner (2000), p. 859.
- ^ a b Rothschild, Walter (1895). "On Two New Moths and an Aberration". Novitates Zoologicae. 2 (4): 482.
- ^ Nielsen, Robinson & Wagner (2000), p. 824, 831.
- ^ Grehan, John R. (2010). "Structural variants in the morphology of the first abdominal tergite supporting the monophyly of the Latin American genera Cibyra Walker, Druceiella Viette, Pfitzneriella Viette and Trichophassus Le Cerf (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 39: 46.
- ^ Viette, Pierre E. L. (1950). "Contribution to the Study of Hepialidae (9th Note): The Genus Phassodes Bethune-Baker (Lepidoptera)". Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 14 (1): 189–190. hdl:10125/16224.
Works cited 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
External links edit
- Grehan, John (2018). "Hepialidae: Phassodes Bethune-Baker, 1905". Hepialidae (ghost moths) and other Exoporia of the world. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.
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