Endoclita excrescens

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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| taxon = Endoclita excrescens

| authority = (Butler, 1877)

| synonyms =

• Phassus excrescens Butler, 1877
• Phassus aemulus Butler, 1877
• Phassus camphorae Sasaki, 1908
• Phassus satsumanis Yazaki, 1926
• Endoclyta pallescens Tshistjakov, 1996

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Endoclita excrescens is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Japan and the Russian Far East.{{cite journal |last1=Nielsen |first1=Ebbe S. |last2=Robinson |first2=Gaden S. |last3=Wagner |first3=David L. |year=2000 |title=Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )|journal=Journal of Natural History |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=823–878 |doi=10.1080/002229300299282 |s2cid=86004391 |url=http://johngrehan.net/files/1013/8578/1218/Nielsen_et_al_2000_Hepialidae.pdf}} Food plants for this species include Castanea, Nicotiana, Paulownia, Quercus, and Raphanus. The species is considered a pest of the tobacco plant.