List of moths of South Africa
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The 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 number of species from South Africa, some families are listed on separate pages.
Family Acrolepiidae[]
- Acrolepia canachopis Meyrick, 1913
- Acrolepia chalarodesma Meyrick, 1927
- Acrolepia gelida Meyrick, 1921
- Acrolepia trapezopa Meyrick, 1914
- Acrolepia xylophragma (Meyrick, 1926)
Family Adelidae[]
- Adela cuneella Walsingham, 1891
- Adela droseropa Meyrick, 1921
- Adela electella (Walker, 1863)
- Adela natalensis Stainton, 1860
- Ceromitia albosparsa Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia alternipunctella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Ceromitia amphichroa Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia arata Meyrick, 1920
- Ceromitia benedicta Meyrick, 1918
- Ceromitia bipartita (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia bipectinifera Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia brevilobata (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia centrologa Meyrick, 1937
- Ceromitia cerochlora Meyrick, 1921
- Ceromitia crinigerella (Zeller, 1850)
- Ceromitia decepta Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia delta Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia descripta Meyrick, 1924
- Ceromitia devia (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia dicksoni (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia durbanica (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia elongatella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Ceromitia fuscipunctella (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia geminata Meyrick, 1914
- Ceromitia gigantea Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia graptosema Meyrick, 1914
- Ceromitia grisata (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia heteroloba (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia holosticta Meyrick, 1918
- Ceromitia impura (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia indigna (Meyrick, 1912)
- Ceromitia intermedia (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia laureata Meyrick, 1911
- Ceromitia libropis Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia melanodesma Meyrick, 1914
- Ceromitia melanostrota Meyrick, 1912
- Ceromitia mellicoma Meyrick, 1912
- Ceromitia mioclina Meyrick, 1921
- Ceromitia mitrata Meyrick, 1917
- Ceromitia monopectinifera Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia multipunctata Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia nerina Meyrick, 1912
- Ceromitia ochrotricha Meyrick, 1912
- Ceromitia palyntis Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia phaeocomoides Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia phyrsima Meyrick, 1911
- Ceromitia praetexta Meyrick, 1924
- Ceromitia punctulata Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia resonans Meyrick, 1918
- Ceromitia simpliciella (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia spatalodes Meyrick, 1920
- Ceromitia spilodesma Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia sporaea Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia stathmodes Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia synchroma (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia transtrifera Meyrick, 1912
- Ceromitia trigoniferella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Ceromitia trilobata (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia turpisella (Walker, 1863)
- Ceromitia tyrochlora Meyrick, 1908
- Ceromitia unguiphora (Janse, 1945)
- Ceromitia vansoni Janse, 1945
- Ceromitia wahlbergi Zeller, 1852
- Ceromitia xanthosoma Meyrick, 1917
Family Alucitidae[]
- Alucita acalyptra (Meyrick, 1913)
- Alucita brachyzona (Meyrick, 1920)
- Alucita butleri Wallengren, 1875
- Alucita capensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
- Alucita certifica (Meyrick, 1909)
- Alucita crococyma (Meyrick, 1937)
- Alucita ferruginea Walsingham, 1881
- Alucita habrophila (Meyrick, 1920)
- Alucita ithycypha (Meyrick, 1927)
- Alucita libraria (Meyrick, 1911)
- Alucita ochriprota (Hering, 1917)
- Alucita phanerarcha (Meyrick, 1924)
- Alucita photaula (Meyrick, 1918)
- Alucita spicifera (Meyrick, 1911)
- Alucita tesserata (Meyrick, 1918)
- Microschismus antennatus T. B. Fletcher, 1909
- Microschismus cymatias Meyrick, 1918
- Microschismus fortis (Walsingham, 1881)
- Microschismus premnias Meyrick, 1913
- Microschismus reginus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011
- Microschismus sceletias Meyrick, 1911
- Microschismus sterkfontein Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011
Family Anomoeotidae[]
- Anomoeotes levis Felder, 1888
- Anomoeotes nigrivenosus Butler, 1893
- Dianeura goochii Butler, 1888
Family Arctiidae[]
About 239 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae)
Family Autostichidae[]
- Diophila bathrota (Meyrick, 1911)
- Hesperesta rhyodes (Meyrick, 1909)
- Holcopogon tucki Vives Moreno, 1999
- Oegoconia meledantis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Oegoconia syndesma Meyrick, 1926
- Pachnistis craniota (Meyrick, 1913)
- Procometis acharma Meyrick, 1908
- Procometis limitata Meyrick, 1911
- Procometis milvina Meyrick, 1914
- Procometis ochricilia Meyrick, 1921
- Procometis oxypora Meyrick, 1908
- Procometis terrena Meyrick, 1908
- Symmoca crocodesma Meyrick, 1911
Family Batrachedridae[]
- Batrachedra epombra Meyrick, 1914
- Batrachedra granosa Meyrick, 1911
- Batrachedra heliota Meyrick, 1913
- Batrachedra isochtha Meyrick, 1914
- Batrachedra microbias Meyrick, 1914
- Batrachedra oemias Meyrick, 1909
- Batrachedra phaneropa Meyrick, 1914
- Batrachedra saurota Meyrick, 1911
- Batrachedra stegodyphobia Walsingham, 1903
- Enscepastra lathraea Meyrick, 1920
- Enscepastra longirostris Meyrick, 1926
- Enscepastra plagiopa Meyrick, 1920
- Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881
Family Bedelliidae[]
- Bedellia cathareuta Meyrick, 1911
- Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)
Family Bombycidae[]
- Bombyx mori (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ocinara ficicola (Westwood & Ormerod, 1889)
- Racinoa ianthe (Druce, 1887)
- Racinoa pallicornis Strand, 1910
- Racinoa signicosta Strand, 1910
Family Brachodidae[]
- Atractoceros albiciliata (Walsingham, 1891)
- Atractoceros xanthoprocta (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- Brachodes nycteropis (Meyrick, 1920)
- Brachodes quiris (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Nigilgia albitogata (Walsingham, 1891)
- Nigilgia eucallynta (Meyrick, 1937)
- Nigilgia pseliota (Meyrick, 1920)
- Phycodes punctata Walsingham, 1891
Family Brahmaeidae[]
- Dactyloceras widenmanni (Karsch, 1895)
- Spiramiopsis comma Hampson, 1901
Family Bucculatricidae[]
- Bucculatrix agilis Meyrick, 1920
- Bucculatrix amara Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix anticolona Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix dulcis Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix edocta Meyrick, 1921
- Bucculatrix facilis Meyrick, 1911
- Bucculatrix galeodes Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix inchoata Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix lenis Meyrick, 1913
- Bucculatrix melipecta Meyrick, 1914
- Bucculatrix monelpis Meyrick, 1928
- Bucculatrix ochromeris Meyrick, 1928
- Meyrick, 1908
- Bucculatrix praecipua Meyrick, 1918
- Bucculatrix quieta Meyrick, 1913
- Leucoedemia ingens (Scoble & Scholtz, 1984)
Family Carposinidae[]
- Carposina autologa Meyrick, 1910
- Carposina brachycentra Meyrick, 1914
- Carposina conobathra Meyrick, 1928
- Carposina exsanguis Meyrick, 1918
- Carposina impavida Meyrick, 1913
- Carposina irata Meyrick, 1914
- Carposina proconsularis Meyrick, 1921
- Carposina siturga Meyrick, 1912
- Carposina socors Meyrick, 1928
- Carposina subselliata Meyrick, 1921
- Carposina thermurga Meyrick, 1929
Family Cecidosidae[]
- Scyrotis athleta Meyrick, 1909
- Scyrotis granosa (Meyrick, 1912)
- Scyrotis kochi Mey, 2007
- Scyrotis pulleni Mey, 2007
- Scyrotis trivialis (Meyrick, 1913)
Family Choreutidae[]
- Brenthia leucatoma Meyrick, 1918
- Brenthia virginalis Meyrick, 1912
- Choreutis aegyptiaca (Zeller, 1867)
- Choreutis entechna (Meyrick, 1920)
- Choreutis gratiosa (Meyrick, 1911)
- Choreutis plectodes (Meyrick, 1921)
- Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)
Family Coleophoridae[]
- Meyrick, 1920
- Augasma nidifica Meyrick, 1912
- Blastobasis byrsodepta Meyrick, 1913
- Blastobasis determinata Meyrick, 1921
- Blastobasis egens Meyrick, 1918
- Blastobasis fatigata Meyrick, 1914
- Blastobasis industria Meyrick, 1913
- Blastobasis millicentae Adamski, 2010
- Blastobasis taricheuta Meyrick, 1909
- Calosima arguta (Meyrick, 1918)
- Coleophora acmura Meyrick, 1914
- Coleophora aphanombra Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora diffusa Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora efflua Meyrick, 1911
- Coleophora eremodes Meyrick, 1912
- Coleophora halmodes Meyrick, 1911
- Coleophora illustrata Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora intensa Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora leucaula Meyrick, 1911
- Coleophora megaloptila Meyrick, 1909
- Coleophora niphocrossa Meyrick, 1920
- Coleophora ordinaria Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora orphnoceros Meyrick, 1937
- Coleophora oxyphaea Meyrick, 1913
- Coleophora presbytica Meyrick, 1921
- Coleophora scaleuta Meyrick, 1911
- Coleophora scariphota Meyrick, 1911
- Coleophora terenaula Meyrick, 1927
- Coleophora textoria Meyrick, 1921
- Coleophora triflua Meyrick, 1911
- Holcocera extensa (Meyrick, 1918)
- Holcocera irroratella (Walsingham, 1891)
- (Meyrick, 1924)
Family Copromorphidae[]
- Copromorpha aeruginea Meyrick, 1917
- Rhynchoferella syncentra (Meyrick, 1916)
Family Cosmopterigidae[]
- Alloclita paraphracta Meyrick, 1914
- Alloclita xylodesma Meyrick, 1911
- Allotalanta clonomicta Meyrick, 1927
- Anatrachyntis rileyi (Walsingham, 1882)
- Anatrachyntis tripola (Meyrick, 1909)
- Ascalenia albitergis Meyrick, 1926
- Ascalenia melanogastra (Meyrick, 1918)
- Ascalenia nudicornis (Meyrick, 1913)
- Ascalenia pulverata (Meyrick, 1913)
- Ascalenia staurocentra (Meyrick, 1915)
- Axiarcha discosema Meyrick, 1921
- Chalcocolona cyananthes (Meyrick, 1911)
- Cnemidolophus lavernellus Walsingham, 1881
- Cosmopterix ancistraea Meyrick, 1913
- Cosmopterix antichorda Meyrick, 1909
- Cosmopterix bactrophora Meyrick, 1908
- Cosmopterix callinympha Meyrick, 1913
- Cosmopterix circe Meyrick, 1921
- Cosmopterix cleophanes Meyrick, 1937
- Cosmopterix cognita Walsingham, 1891
- Cosmopterix diplozona Meyrick, 1921
- Cosmopterix emmolybda Meyrick, 1914
- Cosmopterix macroglossa Meyrick, 1913
- Cosmopterix oxyglossa Meyrick, 1909
- Cosmopterix scaligera Meyrick, 1909
- Cosmopterix tabellaria Meyrick, 1908
- Cosmopterix tetrophthalma Meyrick, 1921
- Dorodoca eometalla Meyrick, 1926
- Erechthiodes audax Meyrick, 1914
- Eteobalea pentagama Meyrick, 1928
- Eteobalea phanoptila Meyrick, 1911
- Eteobalea quinquecristata (Walsingham, 1891)
- Gibeauxiella genitrix (Meyrick, 1927)
- Gisilia antidesma (Meyrick, 1913)
- Gisilia cardinata (Meyrick, 1918)
- Gisilia conformata (Meyrick, 1921)
- Gisilia sclerodes (Meyrick, 1909)
- Gisilia stagnans (Meyrick, 1921)
- Hyalochna allevata Meyrick, 1918
- Ischnobathra balanobola Meyrick, 1937
- Ischnobathra dormiens Meyrick, 1937
- Labdia caulota Meyrick, 1918
- Labdia diophanes Meyrick, 1927
- Limnaecia chlorodeta Meyrick, 1928
- Limnaecia chloronephes Meyrick, 1924
- Limnaecia effulgens Meyrick, 1918
- Limnaecia eretmota Meyrick, 1909
- Limnaecia ichnographa Meyrick, 1908
- Limnaecia neurogramma Meyrick, 1909
- Limnaecia recidiva Meyrick, 1911
- Limnaecia semisecta Meyrick, 1928
- Macrobathra anisodora Meyrick, 1924
- Macrobathra recrepans Meyrick, 1926
- Melanozestis heterodesma Meyrick, 1930
- Parathystas porphyrantha Meyrick, 1913
- Pycnagorastis tanyopa Meyrick, 1937
- Pyroderces narcota (Meyrick, 1909)
- Stagmatophora basanistis Meyrick, 1909
- Stagmatophora phalacra Meyrick, 1909
- Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913
- Stagmatophora trimitra Meyrick, 1913
- Stilbosis antibathra (Meyrick, 1914)
- Streptothyris tanyacta Meyrick, 1918
Family Cossidae[]
- Aethalopteryx forsteri (Clench, 1959)
- Aethalopteryx pindarus (Fawcett, 1916)
- Aethalopteryx squameus (Distant, 1902)
- Aethalopteryx tristis (Gaede, 1915)
- Alophonotus rauanus (Strand, 1909)
- Arctiocossus antargyreus Felder, 1874
- Arctiocossus danieli Clench, 1959
- Arctiocossus impeditus (Walker, 1865)
- Arctiocossus ligatus (Walker, 1865)
- Arctiocossus tessellatus Clench, 1959
- Azygophleps asylas (Cramer, 1777)
- Azygophleps atrifasciata Hampson, 1910
- Azygophleps cooksoni Pinhey, 1968
- Azygophleps inclusa (Walker, 1856)
- Azygophleps leopardina Distant, 1902
- Azygophleps pusilla (Walker, 1856)
- Brachylia eutelia Clench, 1959
- Brachylia incanescens (Butler, 1875)
- Brachylia terebroides Felder, 1874
- Coryphodema albifasciata Hampson, 1910
- Coryphodema tristis (Drury, 1782)
- Cossus seineri Grünberg, 1910
- Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder, 1874
- Macrocossus coelebs Clench, 1959
- Macrocossus toluminus (Druce, 1887)
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1913
- Pecticossus castaneus Gaede, 1929
- Phragmataecia andarana Clench, 1959
- Phragmataecia boisduvalii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- Phragmataecia innominata Dalla Torre, 1923
- Phragmataecia irrorata Hampson, 1910
- Phragmataecia okovangae Clench, 1959
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1914
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1908
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- Rethona strigosa Walker, 1855
- Strigocossus capensis (Walker, 1856)
- Strigocossus ochricosta (T. B. Fletcher, 1968)
- Xyleutes dictyotephra Clench, 1959
- Xyleutes sjoestedti (Aurivillius, 1900)
- Xyleutes vosseleri Gaede, 1929
- Zeuzera coffeae Nietner, 1861
- Zeuzera sponda Wallengren, 1875
Family Crambidae[]
About 407 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)
Family Drepanidae[]
- Aethiopsestis austrina Watson, 1965
- Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965
- Watson, 1965
- Marplena designina Lane, 1973
- Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)
Family Dudgeoneidae[]
- Dudgeonea leucosticta Hampson, 1900
Family Elachistidae[]
- Agonopterix communis (Meyrick, 1920)
- Agonopterix compacta (Meyrick, 1914)
- Agonopterix crypsicosma (Meyrick, 1920)
- Agonopterix dryocrates (Meyrick, 1921)
- Agonopterix glyphidopa (Meyrick, 1828)
- Agonopterix goughi (Bradley, 1958)
- Agonopterix grammatopa (Meyrick, 1920)
- Agonopterix homogenes (Meyrick, 1920)
- Agonopterix melanarcha (Meyrick, 1913)
- Agonopterix neoxesta (Meyrick, 1918)
- Agonopterix trimenella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Colonophora ictifera Meyrick, 1937
- Cryptolechia castella (Zeller, 1852)
- Cryptolechia straminella (Zeller, 1852)
- Depressaria clausulata Meyrick, 1911
- Depressaria orthobathra Meyrick, 1918
- Depressaria panurga Meyrick, 1920
- Depressaria prospicua Meyrick, 1914
- Depressaria rhodoscelis Meyrick, 1920
- Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909
- Elachista crocogastra Meyrick, 1908
- Elachista gypsophila Meyrick, 1911
- Elachista inscia (Meyrick, 1913)
- Elachista justificata Meyrick, 1926
- Elachista merimnaea Meyrick, 1920
- Elachista nymphaea Meyrick, 1911
- Elachista sparsula Meyrick, 1921
- Ethmia circumdatella (Walker, 1863)
- Ethmia coscineutis Meyrick, 1912
- Ethmia dactylia Meyrick, 1912
- Ethmia glandifera Meyrick, 1918
- Ethmia hamaxastra Meyrick, 1930
- Ethmia leucocirrha Meyrick, 1926
- Ethmia livida (Zeller, 1852)
- Ethmia oculigera (Möschler, 1883)
- Ethmia pericentrota Meyrick, 1926
- Ethmia rhomboidella Walsingham, 1897
- Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Eutorna diluvialis Meyrick, 1913
- Haplochrois ganota Meyrick, 1911
- Haplochrois halans Meyrick, 1924
- Haplochrois hysterota (Meyrick, 1918)
- Ischnopsis angustella Walsingham, 1881
- Ischnopsis melanogma (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- Microcolona omphalias Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1917
- Myrrhinitis sporeuta Meyrick, 1913
- Orophia ammopleura (Meyrick, 1920)
- Orophia eariasella (Walker, 1864)
- Orophia haeresiella (Wallengren, 1875)
- Orophia ochroxyla (Meyrick, 1937)
- Orophia roseoflavida (Walsingham, 1881)
- Orophia tetrasticta (Meyrick, 1917)
- Orophia tranquilla (Meyrick, 1927)
- Orophia transfuga (Meyrick, 1911)
- Orophia xanthosarca (Meyrick, 1917)
- Pauroptila galenitis Meyrick, 1913
- Perittia aganopa (Meyrick, 1911)
- Perittia nimbifera (Meyrick, 1913)
- Perittia secutrix (Meyrick, 1914)
- Phthinostoma infumata Meyrick, 1914
- Phthinostoma pachyzona Meyrick, 1921
- Pisinidea exsuperans Meyrick, 1920
- Porotica astragalis Meyrick, 1913
- Stenoma dicentra Meyrick, 1913
- Stenoma modicola Meyrick, 1911
- Stenoma reticens Meyrick, 1917
- Stenoma simulatrix Meyrick, 1914
- Stenoma stolida Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1921
Family Epermeniidae[]
- Epermenia conioptila Meyrick, 1921
- Epermenia criticodes Meyrick, 1913
- Epermenia ithycentra Meyrick, 1926
- Epermenia ochrodesma Meyrick, 1913
- Epermenia proserga Meyrick, 1913
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- Temeluchella xeropa (Meyrick, 1909)
Family Epipyropidae[]
- Epipyrops fulvipunctata Distant, 1913
Family Eriocottidae[]
- Compsoctena aedifica (Meyrick, 1908)
- Compsoctena africanella (Strand, 1909)
- Compsoctena agria (Meyrick, 1909)
- Compsoctena autoderma (Meyrick, 1914)
- Compsoctena brachyctenis (Meyrick, 1909)
- Compsoctena connexalis (Walker, 1863)
- Compsoctena cyclatma (Meyrick, 1908)
- Compsoctena delocrossa (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena dermatodes (Meyrick, 1914)
- Compsoctena expers (Meyrick, 1911)
- Compsoctena fossoria (Meyrick, 1920)
- Compsoctena furciformis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena isopetra (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena lycophanes (Meyrick, 1924)
- (Meyrick, 1927)
- Compsoctena microctenis (Meyrick, 1914)
- Compsoctena numeraria (Meyrick, 1914)
- Compsoctena ochrastis (Meyrick, 1937)
- Compsoctena ostracitis (Meyrick, 1913)
- Compsoctena primella Zeller, 1852
- Compsoctena psammosticha (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena quassa (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena rudis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena scriba (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena spilophanes (Meyrick, 1921)
- Compsoctena talarodes (Meyrick, 1927)
- Compsoctena terrestris (Meyrick, 1914)
- Eucryptogona secularis Meyrick, 1918
Family Eupterotidae[]
- Bantuana cregoei Distant, 1906
- Camerunia flava Aurivillius, 1904
- Cyrtojana trilineata Aurivillius, 1911
- Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917
- Hemijana subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893)
- Hibrildes crawshayi Butler, 1896
- Hoplojana rhodoptera (Gerstaecker, 1871)
- Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
- Jana nigristriata Janse, 1915
- Jana tantalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
- Janomima dannfelti (Aurivillius, 1893)
- Janomima mariana (White, 1843)
- Lichenopteryx despecta Felder, 1874
- Marmaroplegma conspersa Aurivillius, 1921
- Marmaroplegma paragarda Wallengren, 1860
- Marmaroplegma unicolor Janse, 1915
- Paraphyllalia degenera (Walker, 1855)
- Phiala albidorsata Gaede, 1927
- Phiala bistrigata Aurivillius, 1901
- Phiala costipuncta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
- Phiala crassistriga Strand, 1911
- Phiala dasypoda Wallengren, 1860
- Phiala flavipennis Wallengren, 1875
- Phiala hologramma (Aurivillius, 1904)
- Phiala incana Distant, 1897
- Phiala marshalli Aurivillius, 1904
- Phiala nigrolineata Aurivillius, 1903
- Phiala niveociliata Strand, 1911
- Phiala polita Distant, 1897
- Phiala pretoriana Wichgraf, 1908
- Phiala pseudatomaria Strand, 1911
- Phiala pulverea Distant, 1903
- Phiala similis Aurivillius, 1911
- Phiala simplex Aurivillius, 1904
- Phiala wichgrafi Strand, 1911
- Phyllalia alboradiata Aurivillius, 1911
- Phyllalia flavicostata Fawcett, 1903
- Phyllalia patens (Boisduval, 1847)
- Phyllalia thunbergii (Boisduval, 1847)
- Phyllalia umbripennis Strand, 1911
- Phyllalia valida (Felder, 1874)
- Phyllalia ziczac (Strand, 1911)
- Poloma angulata Walker, 1855
- Poloma castanea Aurivillius, 1901
- Poloma nigromaculata Aurivillius, 1893
- Pterocerota virginea Hampson, 1905
- (Aurivillius, 1911)
- (Stoll, 1781)
- Schistissa uniformis Aurivillius, 1901
- Stenoglene bicolor (Distant, 1897)
- Stenoglene decellei Dall'Asta & Poncin, 1980
- Stenoglene hilaris Felder, 1874
- Stenoglene livingstonensis (Strand, 1909)
- Stenoglene nahor Druce, 1896
- Stenoglene obtusus (Walker, 1864)
- Stenoglene pira Druce, 1896
- Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886)
- Striphnopteryx edulis (Boisduval, 1847)
- Tissanga pretoriae (Distant, 1892)
Family Gelechiidae[]
About 502 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Gelechiidae)
Family Geometridae[]
About 976 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Geometridae)
Family Glyphipterigidae[]
- Chrysocentris chrysozona (Meyrick, 1921)
- Chrysocentris urania Meyrick, 1920
- Glyphipterix amphipeda Meyrick, 1920
- Glyphipterix argophracta Meyrick, 1926
- Glyphipterix bohemani (Zeller, 1852)
- Glyphipterix callithea Meyrick, 1921
- Glyphipterix climacaspis Meyrick, 1920
- Glyphipterix decachrysa Meyrick, 1918
- Glyphipterix diplotoxa Meyrick, 1920
- Glyphipterix ditiorana Walker, 1863
- Glyphipterix grapholithoides (Walsingham, 1891)
- Glyphipterix idiomorpha Meyrick, 1917
- Glyphipterix medica Meyrick, 1911
- Glyphipterix ortholeuca Meyrick, 1921
- Glyphipterix oxytricha Meyrick, 1928
- Glyphipterix stelucha Meyrick, 1909
- Tetracmanthes astrocosma Meyrick, 1925
- Ussara polyastra Meyrick, 1937
Family Gracillariidae[]
- Acrocercops chrysophylli Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops combreticola Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops ficina Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops gossypii Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops heterodoxa Meyrick, 1912
- Acrocercops ochnifolii Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops punctulata Walsingham, 1891
- Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961
- Acrocercops terminalina Vári, 1961
- Amblyptila cynanchi Vári, 1961
- Amblyptila strophanthina Vári, 1961
- Aristaea bathracma (Meyrick, 1912)
- Aristaea eurygramma Vári, 1961
- Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908)
- Aristaea thalassias (Meyrick, 1880)
- Aspilapteryx filifera (Meyrick, 1912)
- Aspilapteryx grypota (Meyrick, 1914)
- Aspilapteryx seriata (Meyrick, 1912)
- Callicercops triceros (Meyrick, 1926)
- Caloptilia aurita Triberti, 1989
- Caloptilia azaleella (Brants, 1913)
- Caloptilia cataractias (Meyrick, 1921)
- Caloptilia celtina Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia chrysoplaca Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia corrugata (Meyrick, 1918)
- Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia isotoma (Meyrick, 1914)
- Caloptilia leptophanes (Meyrick, 1928)
- Caloptilia leptospila Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia macropleura (Meyrick, 1932)
- Caloptilia meyricki Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia octopunctata (Turner, 1894)
- Caloptilia pentaplaca (Meyrick, 1911)
- Caloptilia poecilostola Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia porphyranthes (Meyrick, 1921)
- Caloptilia prosticta (Meyrick, 1909)
- Caloptilia pyrrhochroma Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia rhusina Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia sapina Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia semnophanes (Meyrick, 1918)
- Caloptilia syngenica Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia titanitis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Caloptilia vibrans (Meyrick, 1918)
- Caloptilia vicinola Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia xanthocephala Vári, 1961
- Caloptilia xanthochiria Vári, 1961
- Cameraria hexalobina (Vári, 1961)
- Cameraria varii de Prins, 2012
- Conopobathra carbunculata (Meyrick, 1912)
- Conopobathra geraea Vári, 1961
- Conopobathra gravissima (Meyrick, 1912)
- Conopomorpha chionosema Vári, 1961
- Conopomorpha euphanes Vári, 1961
- Conopomorpha fustigera (Meyrick, 1928)
- Conopomorphina aptata (Meyrick, 1914)
- Conopomorphina ochnivora Vári, 1961
- Corethrovalva allophylina Vári, 1961
- Corethrovalva goniosema Vári, 1961
- Corethrovalva paraplesia Vári, 1961
- Corythoxestis cyanolampra Vári, 1961
- Cryptolectica capnodecta Vári, 1961
- Cryptolectica euryphanta (Meyrick, 1911)
- Cryptolectica monodecta (Meyrick, 1912)
- Cuphodes diospyri Vári, 1961
- Cuphodes dolichocera Vári, 1961
- Cuphodes leucocera Vári, 1961
- Cuphodes melanostola (Meyrick, 1918)
- Dialectica carcharota (Meyrick, 1912)
- Dialectica columellina (Vári, 1961)
- Dialectica cordiaecola Vári, 1961
- Dialectica ehretiae (Vári, 1961)
- Dialectica galactozona Vári, 1961
- Dialectica odontosema (Vári, 1961)
- Dialectica pavonicola (Vári, 1961)
- Dialectica praegemina (Meyrick, 1917)
- Dialectica pyramidota (Meyrick, 1918)
- Dialectica trigonidota (Vári, 1961)
- Diphtheroptila brideliae Vári, 1961
- Diphtheroptila oxyloga (Meyrick, 1928)
- Ectropina citricula (Meyrick, 1912)
- Ectropina ligata (Meyrick, 1912)
- Ectropina sclerochitoni Vári, 1961
- Epicephala haplodoxa Vári, 1961
- Epicephala homostola Vári, 1961
- Epicephala pelopepla Vári, 1961
- Epicephala pyrrhogastra Meyrick, 1908
- Epicephala tephrostola Vári, 1961
- Euspilapteryx crypta Vári, 1961
- Graphiocephala barbitias (Meyrick, 1909)
- Graphiocephala polysticha Vári, 1961
- Graphiocephala strigifera Vári, 1961
- Lamprolectica apicistrigata (Walsingham, 1891)
- Leucocercops dasmophora (Meyrick, 1908)
- Liocrobyla tephrosiae Vári, 1961
- Macarostola flora (Meyrick, 1926)
- Macarostola noellineae Vári, 2002
- Metacercops praestricta (Meyrick, 1918)
- Metriochroa pergulariae Vári, 1961
- Metriochroa tylophorae Vári, 1961
- Oligoneurina ficicola Vári, 1961
- Pareclectis adelospila Vári, 1961
- Pareclectis invita (Meyrick, 1912)
- Pareclectis leucosticha Vári, 1961
- Pareclectis prionota (Meyrick, 1928)
- Phodoryctis dolichophila (Vári, 1961)
- Phodoryctis thrypticosema (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
- Phyllocnistis pharetrucha Meyrick, 1921
- Phyllocnistis saligna (Zeller, 1839)
- Phyllonorycter anchistea (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter brachylaenae (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter didymopa (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter dombeyae de Prins, 2012
- Phyllonorycter encaeria (Meyrick, 1911)
- Phyllonorycter grewiaecola (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter grewiella (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter hibiscina (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter lantanae (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter loxozona (Meyrick, 1936)
- Phyllonorycter melanosparta (Meyrick, 1912)
- Phyllonorycter melhaniae (Meyrick, 1912)
- Phyllonorycter pavoniae (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter rhynchosiae (Vári, 1961)
- Phyllonorycter tsavensis de Prins, 2012
- Pleiomorpha dystacta Vári, 1961
- Pleiomorpha eumeces Vári, 1961
- Pleiomorpha habrogramma Vári, 1961
- Pleiomorpha homotypa Vári, 1961
- Pleiomorpha symmetra Vári, 1961
- Pogonocephala veneranda (Meyrick, 1909)
- Polydema hormophora (Meyrick, 1912)
- Polydema vansoni Vári, 1961
- Polysoma clarki Vári, 1961
- Polysoma lithochrysa (Meyrick, 1930)
- Porphyrosela gautengi de Prins, 2012
- Porphyrosela teramni Vári, 1961
- Schedocercops maeruae Vári, 1961
- Semnocera procellaris (Meyrick, 1914)
- Spulerina atactodesma Vári, 1961
- Spulerina catapasta Vári, 1961
- Spulerina hexalocha (Meyrick, 1912)
- Spulerina lochmaea Vári, 1961
- Spulerina marmarodes Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis aphrocyma (Meyrick, 1918)
- Stomphastis cardamitis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Stomphastis conflua (Meyrick, 1914)
- Stomphastis crotoniphila Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis crotonis Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis dodonaeae Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis eugrapta Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis mixograpta Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis rorkei Vári, 1961
- Stomphastis thraustica (Meyrick, 1908)
- Stomphastis tremina Vári, 1961
- Systoloneura randiae Vári, 1961
- Telamoptilia geyeri (Vári, 1961)
Family Heliozelidae[]
- Antispila argyrozona Meyrick, 1918
- Antispila salutans Meyrick, 1921
Family Hepialidae[]
- Afrotheora argentimaculata Nielsen & Scoble, 1986
- Afrotheora minirhodaula Nielsen & Scoble, 1986
- Afrotheora rhodaula (Meyrick, 1926)
- Afrotheora thermodes (Meyrick, 1921)
- Antihepialus antarcticus (Wallengren, 1860)
- Antihepialus capeneri Janse, 1948
- Antihepialus vansoni (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca albiplumis (Warren, 1914)
- Eudalaca albistriata (Hampson, 1910)
- Eudalaca ammon (Wallengren, 1860)
- Eudalaca amphiarma (Meyrick, 1926)
- Eudalaca aurifuscalis (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca bacotii (Quail, 1900)
- Eudalaca cretata (Distant, 1897)
- Eudalaca crossosema (Meyrick, 1921)
- Eudalaca crudeni (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca eriogastra (Meyrick, 1921)
- Eudalaca exul (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853])
- Eudalaca gutterata (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca hololeuca (Hampson, 1910)
- Eudalaca homoterma (Meyrick, 1921)
- Eudalaca ibex (Wallengren, 1860)
- Eudalaca infumata (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca isorrhoa (Meyrick, 1921)
- Eudalaca leniflua (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca leucocyma (Hampson, 1910)
- Eudalaca leucophaea (Janse, 1919)
- (Gaede, 1930)
- Eudalaca minuscula (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca nomaqua (Walker, 1856)
- Eudalaca orthocosma (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca rivula (Janse, 1942)
- Eudalaca rufescens (Hampson, 1910)
- Eudalaca semicana (Janse, 1919)
- Eudalaca troglodytis (Janse, 1919)
- Eudalaca vaporalis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Eudalaca vindex (Meyrick, 1939)
- Gaede, 1930
- Meyrick, 1921
- Janse, 1919
- Janse, 1942
- (Dewitz, 1881)
- Walker, 1856
- Meyrick, 1921
- Janse, 1942
- Janse, 1919
- Janse, 1942
- Janse, 1919
- Gaede, 1930
- Janse, 1942
- Janse, 1942
- Warren, 1914
- Meyrick, 1921
- Gorgopi libania (Stoll, 1781)
- Janse, 1942
- Warren, 1914
- Janse, 1942
- Meyrick, 1921
- (Meyrick, 1919)
- Janse, 1942
- Janse, 1942
- Dewitz, 1881
- Leto venus (Cramer, 1780)
- Metahepialus anguistiptera Janse, 1948
- Metahepialus plurimaculata (Warren, 1914)
- Metahepialus xenoctenis (Meyrick, 1926)
Family Himantopteridae[]
- Doratopteryx afra Rogenhofer, 1883
- Doratopteryx plumigera Butler, 1888
- Pedoptila nemopteridia Butler, 1885
- Semioptila brachyura Hering, 1937
- Semioptila flavidiscata Hampson, 1910
- Semioptila fulveolans (Mabille, 1897)
- Semioptila longipennis Hering, 1937
- Semioptila lufirensis Joicey & Talbot, 1921
- Semioptila marshalli Rothschild, 1907
- Semioptila torta Butler, 1887
- Semioptila trogoloba Hampson, 1920
Family Hyblaeidae[]
- Hyblaea fontainei Berio, 1967
- Hyblaea occidentalium Holland, 1894
- Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777)
Family Immidae[]
- Imma arsisceles Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1911
- Moca tormentata (Meyrick, 1921)
Family Incurvariidae[]
- Protaephagus capensis Scoble, 1980
Family Lacturidae[]
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1921
- (Walsingham, 1881)
- Walsingham, 1891
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1909
- (Zeller, 1852)
Family Lasiocampidae[]
- Aurivillius, 1911
- (Aurivillius, 1922)
- Aurivillius, 1917
- Walker, 1855
- (Wichgraf, 1922)
- Tams, 1936
- Walker, 1855
- Strand, 1912
- (Aurivillius, 1892)
- Bombycomorpha bifascia (Walker, 1855)
- Joannou & Gurkovich, 2009
- Distant, 1897
- (Walker, 1855)
- Aurivillius, 1921
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Distant, 1898)
- Aurivillius, 1927
- Felder, 1874
- (Butler, 1895)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Grünberg, 1910)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Walker, 1856)
- Strand, 1912
- (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Aurivillius, 1905
- Zolotuhin, 2007
- Zolotuhin, 2007
- (Aurivillius, 1927)
- Zolotuhin, 2007
- (Aurivillius, 1921)
- Aurivillius, 1927
- Chrysopsyche imparilis Aurivillius, 1905
- Tams, 1923
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Druce, 1887)
- Cymatopacha obscura Aurivillius, 1921
- Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906)
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Fawcett, 1915)
- Tams, 1930
- (Aurivillius, 1909)
- Pinhey, 1973
- Pinhey, 1973
- (Aurivillius, 1909)
- (Aurivillius, 1909)
- (Distant, 1897)
- Eucraera koellikerii (Dewitz, 1881)
- (Vuillot, 1892)
- (Walker, 1855)
- Eutricha capensis (Linnaeus, 1767)
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Holland, 1893)
- Gastropacha quercifolia (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aurivillius, 1901
- Gonometa postica Walker, 1855
- Aurivillius, 1922
- Grammodora nigrolineata (Aurivillius, 1895)
- (Hering, 1941)
- Aurivillius, 1905
- Henometa clarki (Aurivillius, 1895)
- (Aurivillius, 1901)
- Walker, 1865
- Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Distant, 1899
- Aurivillius, 1911
- Holland, 1893
- Aurivillius, 1922
- Mesocelis monticola Hübner, 1820
- Metadula indecisa Walker, 1865
- Aurivillius, 1909
- Mimopacha knoblauchii (Dewitz, 1881)
- Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
- (Aurivillius, 1921)
- (Druce, 1899)
- Ocinaropsis obscura Aurivillius, 1905
- Tams, 1930
- Wallengren, 1860
- Aurivillius, 1927
- Odontopacha fenestrata Aurivillius, 1909
- Aurivillius, 1914
- (Aurivillius, 1915)
- Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
- (Hering, 1928)
- Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
- (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Philotherma apithana Hering, 1928
- Aurivillius, 1909
- Aurivillius, 1927
- (Dewitz, 1881)
- (Druce, 1887)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Aurivillius, 1901)
- (Distant, 1899)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Tams, 1925
- Aurivillius, 1901
- Rhinobombyx cuneata Aurivillius, 1879
- (Schaus, 1897)
- (Grünberg, 1910)
- (Aurivillius, 1922)
- (Holland, 1901)
- (Wallengren, 1875)
- (Aurivillius, 1921)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Tams, 1936)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Aurivillius, 1893)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Aurivillius, 1905)
- (Strand, 1912)
- (Walker, 1855)
- Streblote cristata (Stoll, 1782)
- (Distant, 1899)
- (Tams, 1936)
- Streblote polydora (Druce, 1887)
- (Aurivillius, 1927)
- Trichiurana meridionalis Aurivillius, 1921
- (Aurivillius, 1909)
- Trichopisthia monteiroi (Druce, 1887)
Family Lecithoceridae[]
- Atrichozancla cosymbota (Meyrick, 1920)
- Atrichozancla gymnopalpa Janse, 1963
- Atrichozancla phaeocrossis (Meyrick, 1937)
- Cophomantella bifrenata (Meyrick, 1921)
- Cophomantella furnaria (Meyrick, 1913)
- Cophomantella homogramma (Meyrick, 1918)
- Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918
- Dragmatucha proaula Meyrick, 1908
- Epimactis atropunctella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Homaloxestis cholopis (Meyrick, 1906)
- Homaloxestis lophophora Janse, 1954
- Idiopteryx obliquella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Isotypa discopuncta Janse, 1954
- Lecithocera aenicta Janse, 1954
- Lecithocera anthologella Wallengren, 1875
- Lecithocera binotata Meyrick, 1918
- Lecithocera flavipalpis Walsingham, 1891
- Lecithocera ideologa Meyrick, 1937
- Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913
- Lecithocera myopa Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1911
- Odites assidua Meyrick, 1914
- Odites balsamias Meyrick, 1911
- Odites citrantha Meyrick, 1908
- Odites consignata Meyrick, 1921
- Odites crocota Meyrick, 1912
- Odites dilutella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Odites emensa Meyrick, 1921
- Odites exterrita Meyrick, 1937
- Odites fessa Meyrick, 1921
- Odites hemipercna Meyrick, 1914
- Odites insons Meyrick, 1912
- Odites inversa Meyrick, 1914
- Odites laconica Meyrick, 1927
- Odites meloxantha Meyrick, 1927
- Odites metaclista Meyrick, 1915
- Odites metaphracta Meyrick, 1909
- Odites metascia Meyrick, 1937
- Odites natalensis Walsingham, 1891
- Odites nubeculosa Meyrick, 1918
- Odites obumbrata Meyrick, 1925
- Odites obvia Meyrick, 1914
- Odites sucinea Meyrick, 1915
- Odites superscripta Meyrick, 1926
- Plagiocrossa picrodora (Meyrick, 1913)
- Protolychnis maculata (Walsingham, 1881)
- Protolychnis marginata (Walsingham, 1891)
Family Lemoniidae[]
- Sabalia picarina Walker, 1865
- Sabalia thalia Fawcett, 1915
Family Limacodidae[]
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hering, 1928)
- (Druce, 1899)
- Janse, 1964
- Hering, 1928
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Wallengren, 1863
- Janse, 1964
- Gaede, 1926
- Janse, 1964
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1964
- (Janse, 1964)
- Janse, 1964
- (Stoll, 1781)
- Talbot, 1932
- Alberti, 1954
- Clench, 1955
- Karsch, 1896
- (Distant, 1897)
- Aurivillius, 1901
- Aurivillius, 1895
- Hering, 1923
- Hering, 1925
- Distant, 1899
- (Walker, 1865)
- Aurivillius, 1895
- Distant, 1899
- (Walker, 1865)
- Felder, 1874
- Grünberg, 1910
- Janse, 1964
- Janse, 1964
- West, 1937
- Druce, 1887
- Janse, 1964
- Distant, 1892
- Hering, 1954
- (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
- West, 1940
- Janse, 1964
- Wallengren, 1863
- Meyrick, 1926
- (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Walker, 1857
- (Hering, 1937)
- (Butler, 1898)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hering, 1937)
- (Hering, 1937)
- (Hering, 1937)
- (Hering, 1937)
- Hering, 1937
- Hering, 1937
- Janse, 1964
- Walker, 1855
- Janse, 1964
- (Pagenstecher, 1903)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1964
- Janse, 1964
- (Distant, 1898)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Felder, 1874)
- (Druce, 1887)
- Holland, 1893
- Janse, 1964
- (Karsch, 1896)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Aurivillius, 1900)
- Hering, 1928
- Hampson, 1910
- Mabille, 1900
- Karsch, 1896
- Janse, 1964
- Hampson, 1910
- Janse, 1964
- Janse, 1964
- Janse, 1964
- (Hering, 1928)
- Hering, 1929
- Janse, 1964
- Aurivillius, 1921
- (Wallengren, 1860)
- (Hering, 1928)
- Kirby, 1892
- Walker, 1865
- Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick, 1918)
- Janse, 1964
- Hering, 1937
- Hering, 1937
- Tams, 1932
- Butler, 1897
- Janse, 1964
- (Holland, 1893)
- Janse, 1964
- Karsch, 1899
- Janse, 1964
- (Walker, 1865)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Wallengren, 1863
- (Janse, 1964)
- (Felder, 1874)
- West, 1937
- (Janse, 1964)
- Tams, 1953
- Janse, 1964
- Janse, 1964
- Jordan, 1915
- Hampson, 1910
- Walker, 1869
- Janse, 1964
Family Lymantriidae[]
- Hampson, 1905
- (Felder, 1874)
- Walker, 1865
- Walker, 1855
- Hampson, 1905
- Janse, 1915
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- (Snellen, 1872)
- (Wallengren, 1875)
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
- Cimola opalina Walker, 1855
- (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Hering, 1926
- Walker, 1855
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- (Butler, 1893)
- Collenette, 1931
- (Holland, 1893)
- (Fabricius, 1793)
- Hering, 1926
- (Walker, 1857)
- Felder, 1874
- (Fawcett, 1900)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Bryk, 1934
- Janse, 1915
- Collenette, 1956
- (Boisduval, 1847)
- Janse, 1915
- Hampson, 1905
- (Janse, 1915)
- Janse, 1915
- (Wallengren, 1860)
- Janse, 1915
- (Kirby, 1896)
- (Stoll, 1782)
- (Walker, 1863)
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Walker, 1862)
- Hampson, 1905
- (Walker, 1855)
- Janse, 1915
- (Janse, 1915)
- (Walker, 1854)
- (Wichgraf, 1922)
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Druce, 1896)
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Wallengren, 1860)
- Aurivillius, 1909
- (Linnaeus, 1767)
- (Walker, 1855)
- Butler, 1893
- Lacipa distanti Dewitz, 1881
- (Swinhoe, 1903)
- Distant, 1897
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
- (Boisduval, 1847)
- Distant, 1898
- Dewitz, 1881
- Hampson, 1905
- Distant, 1897
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Hering, 1926)
- Hering, 1926
- (Walker, 1855)
- Janse, 1915
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Plötz, 1880
- Hampson, 1905
- (Strand, 1915)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1915
- (Distant, 1899)
- Karsch, 1895
- (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
- Hampson, 1905
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Collenette, 1953)
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Distant, 1897)
- Distant, 1899
- Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Hering, 1926)
- Hampson, 1905
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Walker, 1856)
- (Collenette, 1933)
- Hering, 1926
- Swinhoe, 1903
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Distant, 1897
- Janse, 1915
- (Holland, 1893)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Collenette, 1932)
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Hering, 1926)
- (Butler, 1875)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1915
- (Swinhoe, 1906)
- Laelia rosea Schaus & Clements, 1893
- (Walker, 1855)
- Janse, 1915
- Janse, 1915
- (Hering, 1926)
- Hampson, 1905
- Lepidopalpus hyalina Janse, 1915
- Hering, 1926
- (Butler, 1898)
- (Holland, 1893)
- (Plötz, 1880)
- (Hering, 1926)
- Collenette, 1953
- Hering, 1927
- (Fabricius, 1787)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- Janse, 1915
- Hampson, 1905
- Walker, 1855
- Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
- Walker, 1856
- Hampson, 1910
- Hampson, 1905
- Hampson, 1905
- Holland, 1893
- (Walker, 1855)
- Wallengren, 1863
- (Hering, 1926)
- Collenette, 1954
- Penthophera lutea (Boisduval, 1847)
- (Boisduval, 1847)
- Wichgraf, 1922
- Janse, 1915
- Walker, 1855
- Kiriakoff, 1956
- Hübner, 1823
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Butler, 1898)
- Hampson, 1905
- (Swinhoe, 1903)
- Walker, 1856
- Hering, 1927
- Collenette, 1960
- (Swinhoe, 1903)
- (Felder, 1874)
- (Hampson, 1905
- Rhypopteryx rubripunctata (Weymer, 1892)
- (Hampson, 1905)
- (Holland, 1897)
- Schalidomitra ambages Strand, 1911
- (Butler, 1897)
- (Holland, 1892)
- (Druce, 1899)
- Felder, 1874
Family Lyonetiidae[]
- Chrysolytis deliarcha Meyrick, 1937
- Copobathra menodora Meyrick, 1911
- Crobylophora daricella Meyrick, 1881
- Crobylophora metallifera (Walsingham, 1891)
- Crobylophora xanthochyta Meyrick, 1918
- Cycloponympha julia Meyrick, 1913
- Cycloponympha perspicua Meyrick, 1913
- Leucoptera autograpta Meyrick, 1918
- Leucoptera clerodendrella Vári, 1955
- Leucoptera loxaula Meyrick, 1928
- Leucoptera meyricki Ghesquière, 1940
- Leucoptera obelacma Meyrick, 1918
- Leucoptera parinaricola Vári, 1955
- Leucoptera pulchricola Vári, 1955
- Leucoptera scammatias Meyrick, 1909
- Lyonetia cotifraga Meyrick, 1909
- Phyllobrostis apathetica (Meyrick, 1921)
- Phyllobrostis argillosa Meyrick, 1911
- Phyllobrostis calcaria Meyrick, 1911
- Pilotocoma tephroleuca Meyrick, 1913
Family Metarbelidae[]
- Arbelodes agassizi Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes albitorquata (Hampson, 1910)
- Arbelodes collaris Aurivillius, 1921
- Arbelodes deprinsi Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes dicksoni Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes flavicolor (Janse, 1925)
- Arbelodes franziskae Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes griseata (Janse, 1925)
- Arbelodes haberlandorum Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes iridescens (Janse, 1925)
- Arbelodes kruegeri Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes meridialis Karsch, 1896
- Arbelodes mondeensis Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes sebelensis Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes shimonii Lehmann, 2010
- Arbelodes sticticosta (Hampson, 1910)
- Arbelodes varii Lehmann, 2010
- Indarbela tegula (Distant, 1897)
- Kroonia natalica (Hampson, 1910)
- Lebedodes castanea Janse, 1925
- Lebedodes reticulata Gaede, 1929
- Lebedodes rufithorax Hampson, 1910
- Lebedodes wichgrafi (Grünberg, 1910)
- Marshalliana jansei Gaede, 1929
- Metarbela costistrigata Hampson, 1920
- Metarbela cymaphora Hampson, 1910
- Metarbela dialeuca Hampson, 1910
- Metarbela tuckeri (Butler, 1875)
- Ortharbela albivenata (Hampson, 1910)
- Paralebedella carnescens (Hampson, 1910)
- Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910
- Salagena reticulata Janse, 1925
- Salagena tessellata Distant, 1897
- Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
- Teragra althodes Hampson, 1920
- Teragra conspersa Walker, 1855
- Teragra guttifera Hampson, 1910
- Teragra irvingi Janse, 1925
- Teragra vogti Bethune-Baker, 1927
Family Micropterigidae[]
- Agrionympha capensis Whalley, 1978
- Agrionympha fuscoapicella Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha jansella Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha karoo Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha kroonella Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha pseliacma Meyrick, 1921
- Agrionympha pseudovari Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha sagitella Gibbs, 2011
- Agrionympha vari Whalley, 1978
Family Nepticulidae[]
About 118 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Nepticulidae)
Family Noctuidae[]
About 1,323 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Noctuidae)
Family Nolidae[]
- Hampson, 1902
- (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
- (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
- Hampson, 1902
- Walker, 1863
- Hampson, 1912
- Grünberg, 1910
- Guenée, 1852
- Wallengren, 1856
- Pinhey, 1968
- Hampson, 1912
- (Wallengren, 1860)
- Hampson, 1912
- Mabille, 1900
- Hampson, 1912
- Hampson, 1918
- Hampson, 1912
- Hampson, 1918
- Hampson, 1914
- Wiltshire, 1986
- Cremopalpus inquirendus Strand, 1909
- (Hampson, 1902)
- Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
- Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
- Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
- Hampson, 1912
- Hampson, 1920
- (Hampson, 1902)
- Hampson, 1902
- Guenée, 1852
- Hampson, 1912
- Hampson, 1912
- (Walker, [1858])
- (Hampson, 1903)
- (van Son, 1933)
- (Zeller, 1852)
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- Hampson, 1902
- Hampson, 1905
- (Walker, 1858)
- (Hampson, 1902)
- Hampson, 1907
- (van Son, 1933)
- Hampson, 1905
- Hampson, 1920
- (van Son, 1933)
- (Walker, 1865)
- (van Son, 1933)
- Hampson, 1907
- Nola major Hampson, 1891
- (Hampson, 1914)
- Wallengren, 1875
- Hampson, 1909
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- (Hampson, 1909)
- Hampson, 1907
- Saalmüller, 1884
- (van Son, 1933)
- (Hampson, 1901)
- Nola squalida Staudinger, 1870
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- Snellen, 1874
- (Walker, [1858])
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- (Hampson, 1912)
- Hampson, 1912
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- Hampson, 1902
- Hampson, 1912
- Walker, 1866
- Hampson, 1902
- Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
- Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
- Holland, 1894
- van Son, 1933
- Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881
- Hampson, 1912
- Butler, 1881
- (Hampson, 1905)
- Hampson, 1912
- Hampson, 1912
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- van Son, 1933
- Hampson, 1905
- Hampson, 1905
- Hampson, 1902
- Pinhey, 1968
- Westermannia superba Hübner, 1823
- (Fabricius, 1794)
Family Notodontidae[]
- (Swinhoe, 1907)
- Walker, 1865
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Gaede, 1928)
- (Trimen, 1909)
- Kiriakoff, 1975
- Karsch, 1895
- Anaphe panda (Boisduval, 1847)
- Anaphe reticulata Walker, 1855
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Distant, 1902)
- Distant, 1903
- Hampson, 1910
- Bethune-Baker, 1911
- Janse, 1920
- Walker, 1869
- Gaede, 1928
- Janse, 1920
- (Walker, 1865)
- Walker, 1855
- Walker, 1855
- (Snellen, 1872)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Janse, 1920)
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Rothschild, 1917)
- Kiriakoff, 1975
- Walker, 1856
- (Gaede, 1928)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Kiriakoff, 1962
- Kiriakoff, 1954
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Aurivillius, 1906)
- (Gaede, 1928)
- Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
- Kiriakoff, 1955
- Kiriakoff, 1962
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Kiriakoff, 1958
- (Gaede, 1928)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Kühne, 2010
- (Janse, 1920)
- (Janse, 1920)
- Kiriakoff, 1981
- Prout, 1915
- (Janse, 1920)
- Kiriakoff, 1981
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Distant, 1899
- Aurivillius, 1900
- Kiriakoff, 1981
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Wallengren, 1860)
- Kiriakoff, 1958
- (Druce, 1901)
- Felder, 1874
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1920
- Janse, 1920
- Gaede, 1928
- Distant, 1897
- Kiriakoff, 1958
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Gaede, 1928)
- Aurivillius, 1904
- Kiriakoff, 1981
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Mabille, 1897)
- Kiriakoff, 1962
- (Janse, 1920)
- Janse, 1920
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Gaede, 1928)
- (Gaede, 1928)
- Wallengren, 1858
- (Kiriakoff, 1962)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Aurivillius, 1901
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- Kiriakoff, 1955
- Kiriakoff, 1979
- Kiriakoff, 1979
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- Kiriakoff, 1975
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Janse, 1920)
- (Kiriakoff, 1970)
- (Distant, 1899)
- Hampson, 1910
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
- Kiriakoff, 1959
- Hampson, 1910
- (Distant, 1897)
- (Kiriakoff, 1968)
- Druce, 1896
- Mabille, 1900
- Distant, 1899
- Janse, 1920
- Hampson, 1910
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Janse, 1920
- (Wallengren, 1875)
- Janse, 1920
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Gaede, 1928
- (Walker, 1855)
- (Holland, 1893)
- Kiriakoff, 1959
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Hampson, 1909)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Kiriakoff, 1954
- Kiriakoff, 1981
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Distant, 1899)
- (Janse, 1920)
- Kiriakoff, 1962
- Janse, 1920
- Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911)
- Hampson, 1910
- Gaede, 1928
- Jordan, 1916
- Kiriakoff, 1971
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- Kiriakoff, 1971
- Hampson, 1910
- (Butler, 1898)
- Stemmatophalera semiflava (Hampson, 1910)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Kiriakoff, 1962)
- Kiriakoff, 1970
- (Aurivillius, 1904)
- (Rothschild, 1917)
- Strand, 1909
- Butler, 1898
Family Oecophoridae[]
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1937
- (Walsingham, 1881)
- Meyrick, 1921
- Anchinia furculata Meyrick, 1924
- Anchinia oenochares Meyrick, 1924
- Antaeotricha ovata Walsingham, 1881
- Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1918
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- Borkhausenia intumescens Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1917
- (Walsingham, 1881)
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1921
- Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Epiphractis aulica Meyrick, 1912
- Epiphractis crocoplecta Meyrick, 1913
- Epiphractis imbellis Meyrick, 1914
- Epiphractis rubricata Meyrick, 1913
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Epiphractis thysanarcha Meyrick, 1918
- Walsingham, 1881
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1918
- Hypercallia haematella Felder, 1875
- Hypercallia sincera Meyrick, 1909
- Hypercallia subreticulata Walsingham, 1881
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1927
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1920
- Metachanda citrodesma (Meyrick, 1911)
- Metachanda oxyacma Meyrick, 1928
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1914
- Oedematopoda illucens (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Zeller, 1852)
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1910
- Meyrick, 1909
- Walsingham, 1891
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1917
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Walsingham, 1881)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1920
- (Walsingham, 1891)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1918
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1927
- Walsingham, 1891
- Kasy, 1973
- Meyrick, 1915
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1911
- (Meyrick, 1927)
- Walsingham, 1891
- Meyrick, 1913
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1920
- Walsingham, 1881
- Meyrick, 1927
- Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1912
Family Opostegidae[]
- Opostega amphimitra Meyrick, 1913
- Opostega cirrhacma Meyrick, 1911
- Opostega diplardis Meyrick, 1921
- Opostega granifera Meyrick, 1913
- Opostega idiocoma Meyrick, 1918
- Opostega melitardis Meyrick, 1918
- Opostega pelocrossa Meyrick, 1928
- Opostega phaeosoma Meyrick, 1928
- Opostega praefusca Meyrick, 1913
- Opostega radiosa Meyrick, 1913
- Opostega symbolica Meyrick, 1914
- Opostega tincta Meyrick, 1918
- Pseudopostega bellicosa (Meyrick, 1911)
- Pseudopostega clastozona (Meyrick, 1913)
Family Plutellidae[]
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1909
- Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Family Prodoxidae[]
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1917
Family Prototheoridae[]
- Prototheora biserrata Davis, 1996
- Prototheora cooperi Janse, 1942
- Prototheora corvifera (Meyrick, 1920)
- Prototheora drackensbergae Davis, 1996
- Prototheora geniculata Davis, 1996
- Prototheora merga Davis, 1996
- Prototheora monoglossa Meyrick, 1924
- Prototheora parachlora (Meyrick, 1919)
- Prototheora petrosema Meyrick, 1917
- Prototheora quadricornis Meyrick, 1920
- Prototheora serruligera Meyrick, 1920
Family Psychidae[]
- Bourgogne, 1984
- Janse, 1917
- Meyrick, 1909
- Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
- (Heylaerts, 1891)
- Bourgogne, 1984
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1937
- Cathalistis orinephela Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1924
- (Heylaerts, 1884)
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1927
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1920
- (Bourgogne, 1965)
- (Heylaerts, 1890)
- Walsingham, 1891
- Meyrick, 1917
- Hampson, 1910
- Druce, 1887
- Bourgogne, 1955
- Heylaerts, 1884
- Bourgogne, 1977
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1924
- Hampson, 1910
- Hampson, 1910
- Meyrick, 1924
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Hampson, 1910
- Gymnelema vinctus (Walker, 1865)
- (Janse, 1917)
- Kotochalia junodi (Heylaerts, 1890)
- Meyrick, 1887
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1924
- Meyrick, 1910
- (Walker, 1864)
- (Hampson, 1910)
- (Junod, 1898)
- Bourgogne, 1973
- Strand, 1911
- Walker, 1865
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1922
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1921
- (Meyrick, 1914)
- Strand, 1929
- (Scheben, 1910)
- Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1912
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- (Meyrick, 1928)
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- Meyrick, 1920
- (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1913
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
- (Janse, 1917)
- Meyrick, 1926
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- Meyrick, 1917
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1915
- Meyrick, 1915
- Meyrick, 1918
- Durrant, 1892
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1908
- Hampson, 1910
- Janse, 1917
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Typhonia animosa (Meyrick, 1913)
- (Butler, 1898)
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1924)
- (Meyrick, 1915)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1915)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1927)
- (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Wallengren, 1875)
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1924)
- (Meyrick, 1924)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- Meyrick, 1920
Family Pterophoridae[]
- Adaina gentilis Meyrick, 1911
- Adaina periarga Meyrick, 1913
- Agdistis africana Arenberger, 1996
- Agdistis arenbergeri Gielis, 1986
- Agdistis clara Arenberger, 1986
- Agdistis cretifera Meyrick, 1909
- Agdistis criocephala Meyrick, 1909
- Agdistis darwini Arenberger, 2009
- Agdistis dentalis Arenberger, 1986
- Agdistis dicksoni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis dimetra Meyrick, 1924
- Agdistis eberti Arenberger, 2009
- Agdistis endrodyi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis furcata Arenberger, 1996
- Agdistis gibberipennis Arenberger, 1996
- Agdistis infumata Meyrick, 1912
- Agdistis jansei Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis karischi Arenberger, 1996
- Agdistis krooni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis kruegeri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis lomholdti Gielis, 1990
- Agdistis malitiosa Meyrick, 1909
- Agdistis malleana Arenberger, 1988
- Agdistis meyi Arenberger, 2008
- Agdistis obstinata Meyrick, 1920
- Agdistis piccolo Arenberger, 1986
- Agdistis potgieteri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Agdistis pustulalis Walker, 1864
- Agdistis quagga Arenberger, 2009
- Agdistis reciprocans Meyrick, 1924
- Agdistis spinosa Arenberger, 1986
- Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)
- Agdistis tsumkwe Arenberger, 2001
- Agdistis unguica Arenberger, 1986
- Agdistis varii Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
- Amblyptilia direptalis (Walker, 1864)
- Apoxyptilus anthites (Meyrick, 1936)
- Arcoptilia pongola Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Buckleria vanderwolfi Gielis, 2008
- Cosmoclostis brachybela T. B. Fletcher, 1947
- Eucapperia bullifera (Meyrick, 1918)
- Exelastis atomosa (Walsingham, 1885)
- Exelastis crepuscularis (Meyrick, 1909)
- Exelastis pavidus (Meyrick, 1889)
- Exelastis tenax (Meyrick, 1913)
- Gypsochares aulotes (Meyrick, 1911)
- Gypsochares catharotes (Meyrick, 1908)
- Gypsochares londti Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Hellinsia acuminatus (Meyrick, 1920)
- Hellinsia adumbratus (Walsingham, 1881)
- Hellinsia ammonias (Meyrick, 1909)
- Hellinsia callidus (Meyrick, 1913)
- Hellinsia colubratus (Meyrick, 1909)
- Hellinsia furfurosus (Meyrick, 1911)
- Hellinsia illutus (Meyrick, 1917)
- Hellinsia invidiosus (Meyrick, 1911)
- Hellinsia lienigianus (Zeller, 1852)
- Hellinsia pacifica (Meyrick, 1911)
- Hellinsia purus (Meyrick, 1913)
- Hellinsia serpens (Meyrick, 1909)
- Hellinsia sordidatus (Meyrick, 1912)
- Hellinsia sphenites (Meyrick, 1913)
- Hellinsia timidus (Meyrick, 1908)
- Hellinsia tripunctatus (Walsingham, 1881)
- Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
- Macrotinactis stenodactylus (T. B. Fletcher, 1911)
- Marasmarcha bonaespei (Walsingham, 1881)
- Marasmarcha verax (Meyrick, 1909)
- Megalorhipida leptomeres (Meyrick, 1886)
- Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
- Oxyptilus erythrodactylus T. B. Fletcher, 1911
- Oxyptilus variegatus Meyrick, 1920
- Oxyptilus vibrans Meyrick, 1921
- Picardia orchatias (Meyrick, 1908)
- Platyptilia amphiloga Meyrick, 1909
- Platyptilia barbarae Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Platyptilia corniculata Meyrick, 1913
- Platyptilia empedota Meyrick, 1908
- Platyptilia maligna Meyrick, 1913
- Platyptilia molopias Meyrick, 1906
- Platyptilia odiosa Meyrick, 1924
- Platyptilia patriarcha Meyrick, 1912
- Platyptilia periacta Meyrick, 1910
- Platyptilia sabius (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Pselnophorus astragalotes Meyrick, 1909
- Pselnophorus pachyceros Meyrick, 1921
- Pselnophorus zulu Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Pseudoxyptilus secutor (Meyrick, 1911)
- Pterophorus africanus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
- Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
- Pterophorus dallastai Gielis, 1991
- Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
- Pterophorus rhyparias (Meyrick, 1908)
- Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
- Sphenarches caffer (Zeller, 1851)
- Stenodacma richardi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)
- Stenoptilia johnistella Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Stenoptilia longalis (Walker, 1864)
- Stenoptilia natalensis Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
- Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)
- Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Titanoptilus laniger Bigot, 1969
- Titanoptilus patellatus Meyrick, 1913
- Trichoptilus animosus Meyrick, 1921
- Trichoptilus cryphias Meyrick, 1912
- Trichoptilus festus Meyrick, 1920
- Trichoptilus maceratus Meyrick, 1909
- Trichoptilus negotiosus Meyrick, 1926
- Trichoptilus varius Meyrick, 1909
- Trichoptilus viduus Meyrick, 1917
- Trichoptilus vivax Meyrick, 1909
Family Pyralidae[]
About 506 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Pyralidae)
Family Saturniidae[]
- (Sonthonnax, 1899)
- Antistathmoptera daltonae Tams, 1935
- Pinhey, 1968
- Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847)
- (Westwood, 1849)
- (Rothschild, 1895)
- Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
- Lemaire & Rougeot, 1975
- (Aurivillius, 1893)
- (Jordan, 1908)
- (Dewitz, 1881)
- (Westwood, 1881)
- Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
- (Druce, 1886)
- Eochroa trimenii Felder, 1874
- (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
- (Gschwandner, 1923)
- (Westwood, 1849)
- (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
- Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1849)
- (Bouvier, 1930)
- (Janse, 1918)
- (Fabricius, 1775)
- (Darge, 1992)
- (Sonthonnax, 1899)
- Gonimbrasia tyrrhea (Cramer, 1775)
- (Boisduval, 1847)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Strand, 1911
- Gynanisa maja (Klug, 1836)
- Darge, 2008
- (Cramer, 1779)
- Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872)
- (Rogenhofer, 1891)
- (Karsch, 1896)
- (Westwood, 1849)
- Rebel, 1904
- (Westwood, 1849)
- Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
- (Boisduval, 1847)
- Rothschild, 1907
- Karsch, 1892
- Terral, 1991
- (Westwood, 1849)
- (Aurivillius, 1893)
- Bouvier, 1936
- Janse, 1918
- (Staudinger, 1872)
- (Rothschild, 1906)
- Karsch, 1892
- (Walker, 1862)
- Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Boisduval, 1847)
- Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
- (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
- (Fabricius, 1793)
- (Westwood, 1849)
- Rohaniella pygmaea (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
- (Walker, 1865)
- Urota sinope (Westwood, 1849)
- Usta terpsichore (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
- Usta wallengrenii (C. & R. Felder, 1859)
- Vegetia dewitzi (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
- Vegetia ducalis Jordan, 1922
- Vegetia grimmia (Geyer, 1831)
Family Sematuridae[]
- Apoprogones hesperistis Hampson, 1903
Family Sesiidae[]
- Alonina difformis Hampson, 1919
- Alonina rygchiiformis Walker, 1856
- Cabomina dracomontana de Freina, 2008
- Cabomina monicae de Freina, 2008
- Cabomina tsomoana de Freina, 2011
- Chamanthedon chalypsa Hampson, 1919
- Chamanthedon elymais (Druce, 1899)
- Chamanthedon heliostoma Meyrick, 1926
- Chamanthedon hilariformis (Walker, 1856)
- Chamanthedon leucopleura Hampson, 1919
- Chamanthedon ochracea (Walker, 1864)
- Chamanthedon tapeina Hampson, 1919
- Chamanthedon xanthopasta Hampson, 1919
- Grypopalpia iridescens Hampson, 1919
- Homogyna bartschi de Freina, 2011
- Homogyna endopyra (Hampson, 1910)
- Homogyna ignivittata Hampson, 1919
- Homogyna pyrophora Hampson, 1919
- Homogyna xanthophora (Hampson, 1910)
- Hypanthedon marisa (Druce, 1899)
- Melittia aureosquamata (Wallengren, 1863)
- Melittia ectothyris Hampson, 1919
- Melittia laniremis (Wallengren, 1860)
- Melittia natalensis Butler, 1874
- Melittia occidentalis Le Cerf, 1917
- Melittia oedipus Oberthür, 1878
- Melittia pyropis Hampson, 1919
- Melittia rufodorsa Hampson, 1910
- Melittia ursipes Walker, 1856
- Monopetalotaxis candescens (Felder, 1874)
- Monopetalotaxis doleriformis (Walker, 1856)
- Monopetalotaxis luteopunctata de Freina, 2011
- Monopetalotaxis pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910)
- Paranthrene mesothyris Hampson, 1919
- Paranthrene pythes (Druce, 1899)
- Paranthrene sanguipennis Meyrick, 1926
- Pseudomelittia andraenipennis (Walker, 1856)
- Sura bicolor Le Cerf, 1917
- Sura melanochalcia (Le Cerf, 1917)
- Sura xylocopiformis Walker, 1856
- Synanthedon chromolaenae (Eichlin, 2009)
- Synanthedon flavipalpis (Hampson, 1910)
- Synanthedon mesochoriformis (Walker, 1856)
- Synanthedon monozona (Hampson, 1910)
- Synanthedon platyuriformis (Walker, 1856)
- Synanthedon pyrethra (Hampson, 1910)
- Synanthedon rhodia (Druce, 1899)
- Synanthedon semirufa (Felder, 1874)
- Synanthedon stenothyris (Meyrick, 1933)
- Synanthedon tipuliformis (Clerck, 1759)
- Thyranthrene adumbrata Bartsch, 2008
- Thyranthrene metazonata Hampson, 1919
- Tipulamima tricincta (Le Cerf, 1916)
Family Somabrachyidae[]
- Parapsycharium paarlense Geertsema, 2000
- Psycharium barnardi Geertsema, 1998
- Psycharium kammanassiense Geertsema, 1998
- Psycharium montanum Geertsema, 1998
- Psycharium natalense Geertsema, 1998
- Psycharium pellucens Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
Family Sphingidae[]
- Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Afroclanis calcareus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1907)
- Afroclanis neavi (Hampson, 1910)
- Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
- Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Andriasa contraria Walker, 1856
- Antinephele lunulata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Antinephele maculifera Holland, 1889
- Atemnora westermannii (Boisduval, 1875)
- Basiothia aureata (Karsch, 1891)
- Basiothia charis (Boisduval, 1875)
- Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
- Basiothia schenki (Möschler, 1872)
- Batocnema africanus (Distant, 1899)
- Centroctena imitans (Butler, 1882)
- Cephonodes apus (Boisduval, 1833)
- Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Cephonodes trochilus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
- Coelonia fulvinotata (Butler, 1875)
- Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Falcatula falcata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)
- Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
- Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823)
- Hippotion rosae (Butler, 1882)
- Hippotion roseipennis (Butler, 1882)
- Hoplistopus penricei Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)
- Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891
- Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987
- Likoma apicalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Litosphingia corticea Jordan, 1920
- Lophostethus dumolinii (Angas, 1849)
- Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823)
- Macropoliana natalensis (Butler, 1875)
- Microsphinx pumilum (Boisduval, 1875)
- Neoclanis basalis (Walker, 1866)
- Neopolyptychus compar (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Neopolyptychus convexus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
- Nephele aequivalens (Walker, 1856)
- Nephele argentifera (Walker, 1856)
- Nephele bipartita Butler, 1878
- Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857
- Nephele lannini Jordan, 1926
- Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
- Nephele rosae Butler, 1875
- Nephele vau (Walker, 1856)
- Odontosida magnificum (Rothschild, 1894)
- Odontosida pusillus (Felder, 1874)
- Oligographa juniperi (Boisduval, 1847)
- Pantophaea favillacea (Walker, 1866)
- Pantophaea oneili (Clark, 1925)
- Phylloxiphia metria (Jordan, 1920)
- Phylloxiphia punctum (Rothschild, 1907)
- Phylloxiphia vicina (Rothschild & Jordan, 1915)
- Platysphinx piabilis (Distant, 1897)
- Polyptychoides grayii (Walker, 1856)
- Polyptychopsis marshalli (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Polyptychus baxteri Rothschild & Jordan, 1908
- Polyptychus coryndoni Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Praedora leucophaea Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Praedora marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Praedora plagiata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Pseudandriasa mutata (Walker, 1855)
- Pseudoclanis diana Gehlen, 1922
- Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
- Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856)
- Rhodafra marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Rhodafra opheltes (Cramer, 1780)
- Rufoclanis fulgurans (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Rufoclanis jansei (Vári, 1964)
- Rufoclanis numosae (Wallengren, 1860)
- Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904
- Sphingonaepiopsis nana (Walker, 1856)
- Temnora elegans (Rothschild, 1895)
- Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)
- Temnora funebris (Holland, 1893)
- Temnora iapygoides (Holland, 1889)
- Temnora inornatum (Rothschild, 1894)
- Temnora marginata (Walker, 1856)
- Temnora murina (Walker, 1856)
- Temnora namaqua Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Temnora natalis Walker, 1856
- Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856
- Temnora pseudopylas (Rothschild, 1894)
- Temnora pylades Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Temnora pylas (Cramer, 1779)
- Temnora robertsoni Carcasson, 1968
- Temnora sardanus (Walker, 1856)
- Temnora subapicalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Temnora swynnertoni Stevenson, 1938
- Temnora zantus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- Theretra cajus (Cramer, 1777)
- Theretra capensis (Linnaeus, 1764)
- Theretra jugurtha (Boisduval, 1875)
- Theretra monteironis (Butler, 1882)
- Theretra orpheus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- Xenosphingia jansei Jordan, 1920
Family Thyrididae[]
- Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857
- Jordan, 1915
- Arniocera erythropyga (Wallengren, 1860)
- Gaede, 1926
- (Walker, 1866)
- Banisia aldabrana (Fryer, 1912)
- (Whalley, 1971)
- Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
- (Whalley, 1971)
- Whalley, 1971
- Whalley, 1971
- Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
- Cecidothyris pexa (Hampson, 1906)
- Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897
- Whalley, 1971
- (Warren, 1899)
- Whalley, 1971
- (Pagenstecher, 1892)
- (Jordan, 1907)
- Whalley, 1968
- Warren, 1901
- Warren, 1908
- (Walker, 1865)
- Warren, 1900
- Warren, 1908
- (Walker, 1865)
- Whalley, 1971
- Warren, 1908
- Whalley, 1971
- Whalley, 1971
- (Warren, 1898)
- Whalley, 1971
- Hapana minima Whalley, 1971
- Hapana verticalis (Warren, 1899)
- (Warren, 1898)
- Whalley, 1971
- (Warren, 1899)
- Whalley, 1971
- Whalley, 1971
- (Pagenstecher, 1892)
- Karsch, 1900
- (Butler, 1888)
- (Hampson, 1906)
- Whalley, 1971
- (Hampson, 1910)
- Felder, 1874
- Whalley, 1971
- (Gaede, 1929)
- Hampson, 1906
- Whalley, 1971
- Whalley, 1971
- (Warren, 1899)
- Walker, 1856
Family Tineidae[]
- Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914)
- (Meyrick, 1915)
- Amphixystis anchiala (Meyrick, 1909)
- (Meyrick, 1910)
- Antigambra amphitrocta Meyrick, 1927
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Cimitra horridella (Walker, 1863)
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- Meyrick, 1927
- Contralissa catagrapta (Meyrick, 1927)
- Cosmeombra doxochares (Meyrick, 1926)
- Meyrick, 1910
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- Meyrick, 1937
- Meyrick, 1918
- (Stainton, 1859)
- Dicanica acrocentra Meyrick, 1913
- Walker, 1963
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Gozmány, 1965)
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- Edosa rhodesica (Gozmány, 1967)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- Gozmány & Vári, 1973
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- Meyrick, 1920
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- (Stainton, 1860)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- Eriozancla trachyphaea (Meyrick, 1921)
- Exonomasis exolescens (Meyrick, 1926)
- Glaucostolella oxyteles (Meyrick, 1926)
- Graphidivalva genitalis (Meyrick, 1913)
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1908
- Bradley, 1953
- Meyrick, 1924
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1910)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- Lindera tessellatella Blanchard, 1852
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Miarotagmata penetrata (Meyrick, 1911)
- Minicorona tricarpa (Meyrick, 1913)
- Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
- Meyrick, 1918
- Meyrick, 1908
- Gozmány, 1967
- Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
- Meyrick, 1928
- Gozmány, 1965
- (Walker, 1864)
- (Stainton, 1860)
- (Zeller, 1852)
- Gozmány, 1965
- Gozmány, 1965
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1926
- Meyrick, 1926
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Nyctocyrmata crotalopis (Meyrick, 1921)
- Ochetoxena phaneraula Meyrick, 1920
- Ocnophilella autocrypta (Meyrick, 1926)
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1915
- Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853
- Meyrick, 1911
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- Meyrick, 1928
- Meyrick, 1937
- Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1914
- (Meyrick, 1928)
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1913
- (Walker, 1863)
- Meyrick, 1918
- (Walsingham, 1881)
- Meyrick, 1917
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- (Meyrick, 1937)
- (Zeller, 1852)
- Gozmány & Vári, 1973
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Gozmány, 1965
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Gozmány, 1968
- Gozmány, 1967
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- Meyrick, 1918
- (Ghesquière, 1940)
- Enderlein, 1905
- Enderlein, 1905
- (Meyrick, 1926)
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Meyrick, 1937
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- (Meyrick, 1920)
- (Walsingham, 1891)
- Meyrick, 1924
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
- (Gozmány, 1968)
- (Gozmány, 1965)
- (Meyrick, 1918)
- (Meyrick, 1913)
- (Gozmány, 1965)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Gozmány, 1969)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1908
- Meyrick, 1908
- (Haworth, 1828)
- Tetracladessa chalcoxesta (Meyrick, 1920)
- Meyrick, 1921
- Walker, 1863
- Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1857
- Meyrick, 1911
- (Meyrick, 1911)
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1920
- Gozmány, 1968
- Gozmány, 1968
- Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
- Tinissa polystacta (Meyrick, 1918)
- Walsingham, 1881
- Walsingham, 1897
- (Meyrick, 1909)
- Gozmány, 1968
- (Zeller, 1852)
- (Meyrick, 1921)
- (Meyrick, 1917)
- (Meyrick, 1908)
- Gozmány, 1968
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- Transmixta fortuita (Meyrick, 1920)
- Gozmány, 1967
- Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1767)
- (Meyrick, 1914)
Family Tischeriidae[]
- Coptotriche africana Puplesis & Diskus, 2003
- Coptotriche basipectinella Puplesis & Diskus, 2003
- Tischeria martinkrugeri Puplesis & Diškus, 2003
- Tischeria sparmanniae Puplesis & Diškus, 2003
- Tischeria zestica Meyrick, 1911
Family Tortricidae[]
About 240 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Tortricidae)
Family Uraniidae[]
- Warren, 1897
- Dirades theclata (Guenée, 1858)
- Epiplema anomala Janse, 1932
- Warren, 1905
- Warren, 1899
- Janse, 1932
- Janse, 1932
- Janse, 1932
- Janse, 1932
- Warren, 1902
- Janse, 1932
- (Warren, 1901)
- (Warren, 1904)
- (Warren, 1902)
- (Warren, 1905)
- (Warren, 1897)
- Urapteritra falcifera (Weymer, 1892)
Family Xyloryctidae[]
- Cladophantis pristina Meyrick, 1925
- Cladophantis spilozeucta Meyrick, 1927
- Cladophantis xylophracta Meyrick, 1918
- Eporycta chionaula Meyrick, 1920
- Eporycta incanescens Meyrick, 1921
- Eporycta tarbalea Meyrick, 1908
- Eretmocera contermina Meyrick, 1926
- (Walker, 1864)
- Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909
- Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
- Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
- Eretmocera lunifera Zeller, 1852
- Eretmocera miniata Walsingham, 1889
- Eretmocera monophaea Meyrick, 1927
- Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852
- Eretmocera syleuta Meyrick, 1926
- Eupetochira axysta Meyrick, 1927
- Eupetochira xystopala (Meyrick, 1908)
- Exacristis euryopa Meyrick, 1921
- Gemorodes diclera Meyrick, 1925
- Glycynympha roseocostella (Walsingham, 1881)
- Microphidias bacteriopis Meyrick, 1937
- Paralogistis ochrura Meyrick, 1913
- Proterochyta epicoena (Meyrick, 1914)
- Scythris accumulata Meyrick, 1914
- Scythris anthracodelta Meyrick, 1911
- Scythris aquaria Meyrick, 1913
- Scythris brachyplecta Meyrick, 1928
- Scythris calciflua Meyrick, 1921
- Scythris canispersa Meyrick, 1913
- (Meyrick, 1887)
- Meyrick, 1909
- Scythris cretiflua Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1930
- Meyrick, 1920
- Scythris eloquens Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1920
- Meyrick, 1912
- Scythris farrata Meyrick, 1913
- Scythris fluctuosa Meyrick, 1914
- Scythris fonticola Meyrick, 1911
- Scythris glaphyropa Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1911
- Scythris lactanea Meyrick, 1913
- Scythris latebrosa Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1912
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1920
- Scythris mesoplecta Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1918
- Scythris obstans Meyrick, 1928
- Scythris ochrantha Meyrick, 1909
- Scythris pelochyta Meyrick, 1909
- Scythris psamathota Meyrick, 1913
- Scythris rivigera Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1912
- Scythris sacharissa Meyrick, 1913
- Scythris stagnosa Meyrick, 1913
- Xylorycta artigena Meyrick, 1914
Family Yponomeutidae[]
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1921
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1914
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1913
- (Walsingham, 1891)
- Eaton, 1875
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1918
- Morotripta fatigata Meyrick, 1917
- Meyrick, 1911
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1909
- Meyrick, 1912
- Prays citri (Millière, 1873)
- Prays liophaea Meyrick, 1927
- (Meyrick, 1912)
- Meyrick, 1921
- (Walsingham, 1891)
- Meyrick, 1913
- Meyrick, 1912
- Stainton, 1860
- Meyrick, 1928
- Zeller, 1852
- Meyrick, 1909
- Yponomeuta strigillatus Zeller, 1852
- Walsingham, 1881
- Meyrick, 1917
Family Ypsolophidae[]
- Ypsolopha exsularis (Meyrick, 1937)
- Ypsolopha scenites (Meyrick, 1909)
Family Zygaenidae[]
- Anticrates crocophaea Meyrick, 1921
- Anticrates electropis Meyrick, 1921
- (Jordan, 1907)
- (Hampson, 1920)
- Gaede, 1914
- (Zeller, 1852)
- Janseola titaea (Druce, 1896)
- Jordan, 1907
- Jordan, 1907
- (Linnaeus, 1764)
- (Dalman, 1823)
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
- Hampson, 1920
- Kirby, 1892
- (Walker, 1854)
- (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
- (Distant, 1892)
- (Hampson, 1920)
- (Jordan, 1907)
- (Jordan, 1907)
- (Druce, 1899)
- (Felder, 1874)
- Jordan, 1907
- (Holland, 1897)
- Aurivillius, 1910
- (Fabricius, 1775)
- Jordan, 1907
- Tascia finalis (Walker, 1854)
- Tascia rhabdophora Vári, 2002
- Tascia virescens Butler, 1876
- Zutulba namaqua (Boisduval, 1847)
- Zutulba ocellaris (Felder, 1874)
See also[]
- List of butterflies of South Africa
- Wildlife of South Africa
References[]
External links[]
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Search". Afromoths.
- Lists of moths of South Africa
- Moths of Africa
- Lists of moths by country
- Lists of biota of South Africa