List of moths of Australia
Australian moths represent between 20,000 and 30,000 different types of moths. [1] In comparison, there are only 400 species of Australian butterflies. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. Scientifically, these moths are organised into about 80 families[2], but the status of some is controversial and several recent changes have been suggested.[1]
This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Australia. The list covers the continent of Australia and Tasmania and includes islands close to the mainland.
This page provides a link to detailed lists of these moths by family. If a family is endemic to Australia, the link redirects to a description of the family itself.
Families
- Adelidae
- Agathiphagidae
- Agonoxenidae
- Only one Australian species is known: Agonoxena phoenicia Bradley, 1966
- Alucitidae
- Anomosetidae
- Anthelidae
- Arctiidae
- Argyresthiidae (mostly treated as a subfamily of Yponomeutidae)
- Only one Australian species is known: Argyresthia notoleuca (Turner, 1913)
- Arrhenophanidae
- Batrachedridae
- Blastobasidae
- Blastodacnidae (sometimes included in Agonoxenidae)
- Bombycidae
- Brachodidae
- Bucculatricidae
- Carposinidae
- Carthaeidae
- Castniidae
- Choreutidae
- Coleophoridae
- Copromorphidae
- Cosmopterigidae
- Cossidae
- Cyclotornidae
- Depressariidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae)
- Drepanidae
- Douglasiidae
- Only one Australian species is known: Tinagma leucanthes Meyrick, 1897
- Dudgeoneidae
- Elachistidae
- Epermeniidae
- Epipyropidae
- Species include Epipyrops anomala Bowring , 1852
- Eriocottidae
- Only one Australian species is known: Eucryptogona trichobathra Lower, 1901
- Ethmiidae
- Eupterotidae
- Galacticidae
- Gelechiidae
- Geometridae
- Glyphipterigidae
- Gracillariidae
- Heliocosma Group
- Heliodinidae
- Heliozelidae
- Hepialidae
- Herminiidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Noctuidae)
- Hyblaeidae
- Hypertrophidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae)
- Immidae
- Incurvariidae
- Lacturidae
- Lasiocampidae
- Lecithoceridae
- Limacodidae
- Lophocoronidae
- Lymantriidae
- Lyonetiidae
- Macropiratidae (mostly treated as a subfamily of Pterophoridae)
- Micronoctuidae
- Only few Australian species are known: Duplex horakae Fibiger, 2010, Duplex edwardsi Fibiger, 2010, Duplex pullata Fibiger, 2010, Duplex cockingi Fibiger, 2010 and Flax kalliesi Fibiger, 2011. Records for Tolpia conscitulana Walker, 1863 and Tolpia myops Hampson, 1907, formerly included in Noctuidae, are based on misidentifications.
- Micropterigidae
- Momphidae
- Only an unnamed Zapyrastra species is known.
- Nepticulidae
- Noctuidae (including Aganaidae and Nolidae)
- Notodontidae
- Oecophoridae
- Oenosandridae
- Opostegidae
- Palaeosetidae
- Only one Australian species is known: Palaeoses scholastica Turner, 1922.
- Palaephatidae
- Plutellidae
- Psychidae
- Pterophoridae
- Pyralidae (including Crambidae)
- Roeslerstammiidae
- Saturniidae
- Scythrididae
- Sesiidae
- Simaethistidae
- Only two Australian species are known: Metaprotus asuridia (Butler, 1886) and Metaprotus magnifica (Meyrick, 1887)
- Sphingidae
- Symmocidae
- Only one Australian species is known: Nemotyla oribates Nielsen, McQuillan & Common, 1992
- Thyrididae
- Tineidae
- Tineodidae
- Tortricidae
- Uraniidae
- Yponomeutidae
- Zygaenidae
Notes and references
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