List of moths of South Africa

Location of South Africa

Moths of South Africa represent about 7,000 known moth species. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in South Africa. Because of the large amount of species recorded from South Africa, some families are listed on separate pages.

Acrolepiidae

Adelidae

Alucitidae

Anomoeotidae

Arctiidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae)

Autostichidae

Batrachedridae

Bedelliidae

Bombycidae

Brachodidae

Brahmaeidae

Bucculatricidae

Carposinidae

Cecidosidae

Choreutidae

Coleophoridae

Copromorphidae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)

Drepanidae

Dudgeoneidae

Elachistidae

Epermeniidae

Epipyropidae

Eriocottidae

Eupterotidae

Gelechiidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Gelechiidae)

Geometridae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Geometridae)

Glyphipterigidae

Gracillariidae

Heliozelidae

Hepialidae

Himantopteridae

Hyblaeidae

Immidae

Incurvariidae

Lacturidae

Lasiocampidae

Lecithoceridae

Lemoniidae

Limacodidae

Lymantriidae

Lyonetiidae

Metarbelidae

Micropterigidae

Nepticulidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Nepticulidae)

Noctuidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Noctuidae)

Nolidae

Notodontidae

Oecophoridae

Opostegidae

Plutellidae

Prodoxidae

Prototheoridae

Psychidae

Pterophoridae

Pyralidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Pyralidae)

Saturniidae

Sematuridae

Sesiidae

Somabrachyidae

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

Tineidae

Tischeriidae

Tortricidae

See: List of moths of South Africa (Tortricidae)

Uraniidae

Xyloryctidae

Yponomeutidae

Ypsolophidae

Zygaenidae

See also

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