Cladoxycanus

Cladoxycanus minos
Female (top) and male (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Cladoxycanus
Dumbleton, 1966
Species:
C. minos
Binomial name
Cladoxycanus minos
(Hudson, 1905)[1]
Synonyms
  • Porina minos Hudson, 1905
  • Porina autumnata Hudson, 1920

Cladoxycanus is a monotypic genus of moths belonging to the family Hepialidae. It consists of only one species, Cladoxycanus minos, which is endemic to New Zealand.[2] C. minos was first described by George Hudson in 1905.[3]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Cladoxycanus minos (Hudson, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  3. ^ Hudson, George Vernon (1905). "On some new species of macrolepidoptera in New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 37: 355–358 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.