List of moths of Christmas Island

Christmas Island

This is a list of moths of Christmas Island, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean.

According to a recent estimate, there are 70^[1] moth species present on Christmas Island.

Some of these species are listed below, divided into taxonomic families.^[2][3][4]

Family Crambidae[]

• Nomophila corticalis Walker, 1869
• Parotis suralis (Lederer, 1863)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Family Erebidae[]

• Moore, 1879
• Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Achaea serva (Linnaeus, 1775)
• Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
• Hampson, 1910
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Anomis erosa Hübner 1821
• Anomis esocampta Hampson 1926
• Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
• Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
• (Butler, 1888)
• Chasmina candida (Walker, 1865)
• Dasypodia selenophora Guenée, 1852
• Dysauxes ancilla (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Erebus macrops (Linnaeus, 1768)
• Eublemma cochylioides Guenée, 1852
• Eublemma rivula Moore, 1882
• Moore, 1882
• Euchromia horsfieldi (Moore, 1859)
• Eudocima homaena (Hübner, 1816)
• Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Eudocima salaminia (Cramer, 1777)
• (Hampson, 1900)
• (Hampson, 1900)
• Hampson, 1900
• Walker, 1859
• (Fabricius, 1798)
• (Hampson 1900)
• Lyclene distributa Walker, 1862
• Maliattha signifera (Walker, [1858])
• Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• (Walker, 1856)
• Orgyia postica (Walker, 1855)
• Pantydia metaspila (Walker, 1857)
• Simplicia butesalis (Walker, 1858)
• Thyas coronata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Thyas honesta Hübner, 1824
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
• Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, [1777])
• Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907

Family Euteliidae[]

• Targalla delatrix (Guenée, 1852)

Family Geometridae[]

• Prout, 1933
• Cleora acaciaria (Boisduval, 1833)
• Cleora alienaria fumipennis Prout, 1929
• Thierry Mieg, 1915
• Prout, 1933
• (Hampson, 1900)
• Prout, 1933
• Hyperythra lutea Stoll, 1781
• (Cramer, 1782)
• Paradarisa comparataria (Walker, 1866)
• Sauris hirudinata Guenée, 1858
• Prout, 1933
• Sauris remodesaria Walker, 1862
• Scopula actuaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula optivata (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula tumiditibia Prout, 1920
• Prout, 1933
• Warren 1905
• Thalassodes veraria Guenée, 1857

Family Hyblaeidae[]

• Hyblaea apricans (Boisduval, 1833)

Family Noctuidae[]

• Aegilia describens Walker, 1857
• Brana calopasa Walker, [1858]
• Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
• (Walker, 1862)
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Iambia transversa (Moore, 1882)
• Hampson, 1900
• Oxyodes scrobiculata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera picta (Guérin-Méneville, [1838])
• Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)

Family Nolidae[]

• Hampson
• Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
• Hampson, 1912
• Earias luteolaria Hampson, 1891
• Lyclene distributa Walker, 1862

Family Pyralidae[]

• Ancylosis singhalella (Ragonot, 1889)
• Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
• Endotricha puncticostalis (Walker, [1866])
• Hampson, 1900
• Epicrocis oegnusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Euzophera cinerosella (Zeller, 1839)
• Doloessa ochrociliella Ragonot, 1893
• Homoeosoma nimbella (Duponchel, 1837)

Family Sphingidae[]

• Agrius convolvuli (Linné, 1758)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, [1771])
• Daphnis placida (Walker, 1856)
• Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)
• Hippotion velox (Fabricius, 1793)
• Psilogramma discistriga (Walker, 1856)
• Theretra latreillii (MacLeay, 1826)

Family Tortricidae[]

• Adoxophyes liberatrix (Diakonoff, 1947)

Family Uraniidae[]

• Warren, 1896

See also[]

• Lists of Lepidoptera by region

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lepidoptera of Christmas Island.

• A Monograph of Christmas Island by Charles W. Andrews