List of moths of South Africa

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Location of South Africa

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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.
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