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Ghost Moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hepialidae
Genus:Hepialus
Species:H. humuli
Binomial name
Hepialus humuli
(Linnaeus, 1758)


The Ghost Moth (Hepialus humuli), also known as the Ghost Swift, is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is common throughout Europe except for the far south-east. This species is now considered the only species in the genus Hepialus which previously included several other species now reclassified into other genera.

The male has a wingspan of about 44 mm and both forewings and hindwings are pure white (although in H. h. thulensis, found in Shetland and the Faroe Islands, there are buff-coloured individuals). The female is larger (wingspan about 48 mm) and has yellowish-buff forewings with darker linear markings and brown hindwings. The adults fly in June and July [1] and are attracted to light. The species overwinters as a larva.

The Ghost Moth gets its name from the display flight of the male, which hovers, sometimes slowly rising and falling, over open ground to attract females. In a suitable location several males may display together in a lek.

The larva is whitish and maggot-like and feeds underground on the roots of a variety of wild and cultivated plants (see list below). The species can be an economically significant pest in forest nurseries.

The term ghost moth is sometimes used as a general term for all Hepialids.
  1. ^  The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.

Recorded food plants

References

  • Chinery, Michael Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe 1986 (Reprinted 1991)
  • Skinner, Bernard Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles 1984

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Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829

Subphyla and Classes
  • Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
  • Trilobita - trilobites (extinct)
  • Subphylum Chelicerata

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Insecta
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders
Subclass Apterygota
* Archaeognatha (bristletails)
* Thysanura (silverfish)
Subclass Pterygota
* Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic)

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda
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Hepialidae
Stephens, 1829

Diversity
60 genera and at least 587 species

Genera
  • Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Afrotheora Nielsen and Scoble, 1986
  • Andeabatis

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Hepialidae
Stephens, 1829

Diversity
60 genera and at least 587 species

Genera
  • Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Afrotheora Nielsen and Scoble, 1986
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The British Isles in relation to mainland Europe

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Binomial name
Beta vulgaris
Carolus Linnaeus

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Species

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Binomial name
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