Phassodes
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Template:Short description Template:Automatic taxobox
Phassodes is a moth genus of the family Hepialidae. Template:As of, it is monospecific, consisting of the sole species Phassodes vitiensis; this species is very variable. It is found in Fiji and Samoa.Template:Sfnp The life cycle is unknown but the larva is presumed to feed underground on the roots of plants or decaying matter.[1]
Taxonomic history
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.[2] In 1950, the French entomologist Pierre Viette synonymized Bethune-Baker's P. nausori with P. vitiensis;[3] P. vitiensis was first described by Walter Rothschild in 1895.[4]
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