Eudalaca

Eudalaca
Eudalaca stictigrapha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Eudalaca Viette, 1950
Species
See text
Synonyms
EudalacinaPaclt, 1953

Eudalaca is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. ^{[1] [2]} There are 35 described species, most restricted to South Africa but a few found further north in the continent.

Species

• Eudalaca aequifascia - East Africa
• Eudalaca albiplumis - South Africa
• Eudalaca albistriata - South Africa
• Eudalaca ammon - South Africa/Zimbabwe
• Eudalaca amphiarma - South Africa
• Eudalaca aurifuscalis - South Africa
• Eudalaca bacotii - South Africa
• Eudalaca cretata - South Africa
• Eudalaca crossosema - South Africa
• Eudalaca crudeni - South Africa
• Eudalaca eriogastra - South Africa
• Eudalaca exul - South Africa
• Eudalaca gutterata - South Africa
• Eudalaca hololeuca - South Africa
• Eudalaca holophaea - Congo basin
• Eudalaca homoterma - South Africa
• Eudalaca ibex - South Africa
• Eudalaca infumata - Zimbabwe
• Eudalaca isorrhoa - South Africa
• Eudalaca leucophaea - South Africa
• Eudalaca leniflua - South Africa
• Eudalaca leucocyma - South Africa
• Eudalaca limbopuncta - South Africa
• Eudalaca miniscula - South Africa
• Eudalaca nomaqua - South Africa
• Eudalaca orthocosma - South Africa
• Eudalaca rivula - South Africa
• Eudalaca rufescens - South Africa
  • Larva feeds on grasses
• Eudalaca sanctahelena - Saint Helena
• Eudalaca semicanus - South Africa
• Eudalaca stictigrapha - Zimbabwe
• Eudalaca troglodytis - South Africa
• Eudalaca vaporalis - South Africa
• Eudalaca vindex - South Africa
• Eudalaca zernyi - Tanzania

References

1. 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 History34 (6): 823–878.
2. Grehan, John; Mielke, Carlos; Ignatev, Nikolai; De Groof, Benny (2021). "New species of Eudalaca Viette, 1950 ghost moth from Karkloof Nature Reserve, South Africa (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)". ZooNova (11): 8 – via ResearchGate.

External links

• Hepialidae genera