List of Lepidoptera that feed on Eucalyptus

Gum trees, Eucalyptus species, are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). These include:

Monophagous[]

Species which feed exclusively on Eucalyptus

• Bucculatricidae
  • Bucculatrix eucalypti
• Hepialidae
  • Abantiades latipennis (pindi moth) – root feeder, only on messmate stringybark (E. obliqua) and stringy gum (E. regnans)
  • Aenetus montanus – trunk burrower
  • Aenetus ombraloma – trunk burrower

Polyphagous[]

Species which feed on Eucalyptus among other plants

• Arctiidae
  • Eupseudosoma aberrans
  • Eupseudosoma involutum (snowy eupseudosoma)
• Hepialidae
  • Other Abantiades spp.^[1] – root feeders
  • Aenetus eximia – trunk burrower
  • Aenetus ligniveren – trunk burrower
  • Aenetus ramsayi – trunk burrower
  • Aenetus scotti – trunk burrower
  • Aenetus virescens (puriri moth) – trunk burrower
  • Endoclita auratus
  • Endoclita hosei
  • Endoclita malabaricus
  • Endoclita undulifer
  • Trichophassus giganteus
  • Zelotypia stacyi (bentwing ghost moth) – trunk burrower
• Noctuidae
  • Agrotis segetum (turnip moth)
• Oecophoridae
  • All known species of Crossophora
• Tortricidae
  • "Cnephasia" jactatana (black-lyre leafroller moth)

References[]

External links[]

• Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W. & Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Hostplant Genus: Eucalyptus". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.