List of moths 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.

Location of South Africa

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

Family Alucitidae

Family Anomoeotidae

Family Arctiidae

About 239 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae)

Family Autostichidae

Family Batrachedridae

Family Bedelliidae

Family Bombycidae

Family Brachodidae

Family Brahmaeidae

Family Bucculatricidae

Family Carposinidae

Family Cecidosidae

Family Choreutidae

Family Coleophoridae

Family Copromorphidae

Family Cosmopterigidae

Family Cossidae

Family Crambidae

About 407 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)

Family Drepanidae

Family Dudgeoneidae

Family Elachistidae

Family Epermeniidae

Family Epipyropidae

Family Eriocottidae

Family Eupterotidae

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

Family Heliozelidae

Family Hepialidae

Family Himantopteridae

Family Hyblaeidae

Family Immidae

Family Incurvariidae

Family Lacturidae

  • Gymnogramma cyanea Meyrick, 1912
  • Gymnogramma eoxantha Meyrick, 1921
  • Gymnogramma flavivitella (Walsingham, 1881)
  • Gymnogramma hutchinsoni Walsingham, 1891
  • Gymnogramma privata Meyrick, 1924
  • Gymnogramma psyllodecta Meyrick, 1924
  • Gymnogramma pyrozancla Meyrick, 1911
  • Gymnogramma racemosa Meyrick, 1918
  • Gymnogramma rhodoneura Meyrick, 1909
  • Gymnogramma rufiventris (Zeller, 1852)

Family Lasiocampidae

  • Anadiasa affinis Aurivillius, 1911
  • Anadiasa fuscofasciata (Aurivillius, 1922)
  • Anadiasa jansei Aurivillius, 1917
  • Anadiasa punctifascia Walker, 1855
  • Anadiasa schoenheiti (Wichgraf, 1922)
  • Beralade jordani Tams, 1936
  • Beralade perobliqua Walker, 1855
  • Beralade signinervis Strand, 1912
  • Beralade wallengreni (Aurivillius, 1892)
  • Bombycomorpha bifascia (Walker, 1855)
  • Bombycomorpha dukei Joannou & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Bombycomorpha pallida Distant, 1897
  • Bombycopsis bipars (Walker, 1855)
  • Bombycopsis capicola Aurivillius, 1921
  • Bombycopsis indecora (Walker, 1865)
  • Bombycopsis metallicus (Distant, 1898)
  • Bombycopsis nigrovittata Aurivillius, 1927
  • Bombycopsis ochroleuca Felder, 1874
  • Bombycopsis venosa (Butler, 1895)
  • Braura ligniclusa (Walker, 1865)
  • Braura picturata (Grünberg, 1910)
  • Braura truncatum (Walker, 1855)
  • Catalebeda cuneilinea (Walker, 1856)
  • Catalebeda discocellularis Strand, 1912
  • Catalebeda jamesoni (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Chondrostegoides capensis Aurivillius, 1905
  • Chondrostegoides jamaka Zolotuhin, 2007
  • Chondrostegoides magna Zolotuhin, 2007
  • Chondrostegoides murina (Aurivillius, 1927)
  • Chondrostegoides nobilorum Zolotuhin, 2007
  • Chondrostegoides ruficornis (Aurivillius, 1921)
  • Chrysopsyche bivittata Aurivillius, 1927
  • Chrysopsyche imparilis Aurivillius, 1905
  • Chrysopsyche lutulenta Tams, 1923
  • Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
  • Cleopatrina phocea (Druce, 1887)
  • Cymatopacha obscura Aurivillius, 1921
  • Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906)
  • Dollmania cuprea (Distant, 1897)
  • Dollmania flavia (Fawcett, 1915)
  • Dollmania plinthochroa Tams, 1930
  • Dollmania purpurascens (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Epicnapteroides fuliginosa Pinhey, 1973
  • Epicnapteroides marmorata Pinhey, 1973
  • Epitrabala argenteoguttata (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Epitrabala nyassana (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Eucraera gemmata (Distant, 1897)
  • Eucraera koellikerii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Eucraera salammbo (Vuillot, 1892)
  • Eutricha bifascia (Walker, 1855)
  • Eutricha capensis (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Eutricha fulvida (Distant, 1897)
  • Eutricha morosa (Walker, 1865)
  • Eutricha obscura (Walker, 1855)
  • Euwallengrenia rectilineata (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Euwallengrenia reducta (Walker, 1855)
  • Gastropacha africana (Holland, 1893)
  • Gastropacha quercifolia (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Gastroplakaeis meridionalis Aurivillius, 1901
  • Gonometa postica Walker, 1855
  • Gonometa rufobrunnea Aurivillius, 1922
  • Grammodora nigrolineata (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Grellada enigmatica (Hering, 1941)
  • Haplopacha cinerea Aurivillius, 1905
  • Henometa clarki (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Hypotrabala sanguicincta (Aurivillius, 1901)
  • Lasiocampa angulifera Walker, 1865
  • Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lebeda mustelina Distant, 1899
  • Leipoxais emarginata Aurivillius, 1911
  • Leipoxais peraffinis Holland, 1893
  • Mallocampa leighi Aurivillius, 1922
  • Mesocelis monticola Hübner, 1820
  • Metadula indecisa Walker, 1865
  • Metajana marshalli Aurivillius, 1909
  • Mimopacha knoblauchii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Morongea missdebeerae Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Napta straminea (Aurivillius, 1921)
  • Nirbiana micha (Druce, 1899)
  • Ocinaropsis obscura Aurivillius, 1905
  • Odontocheilopteryx dollmani Tams, 1930
  • Odontocheilopteryx myxa Wallengren, 1860
  • Odontocheilopteryx obscura Aurivillius, 1927
  • Odontopacha fenestrata Aurivillius, 1909
  • Pachymeta capreolus Aurivillius, 1914
  • Pachymetana neavei (Aurivillius, 1915)
  • Pachytrina wenigina Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
  • Pallastica lucifer Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Philotherma apithana Hering, 1928
  • Philotherma media Aurivillius, 1909
  • Philotherma obscura Aurivillius, 1927
  • Philotherma rennei (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Philotherma rosa (Druce, 1887)
  • Pseudolyra cervina (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Pseudolyra cinerea (Aurivillius, 1901)
  • Pseudolyra distincta (Distant, 1899)
  • Pseudometa basalis (Walker, 1865)
  • Pseudometa dollmani Tams, 1925
  • Pseudometa viola Aurivillius, 1901
  • Rhinobombyx cuneata Aurivillius, 1879
  • Schausinna clementsi (Schaus, 1897)
  • Schausinna regia (Grünberg, 1910)
  • Sena breyeri (Aurivillius, 1922)
  • Sena donaldsoni (Holland, 1901)
  • Sena levenna (Wallengren, 1875)
  • Sena parva (Aurivillius, 1921)
  • Sena prompta (Walker, 1855)
  • Sena simplex (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Stoermeriana aculeata (Walker, 1865)
  • Stoermeriana amphilecta (Tams, 1936)
  • Stoermeriana distinguenda (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Stoermeriana fusca (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Stoermeriana singulare (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Streblote bimaculatum (Walker, 1865)
  • Streblote capensis (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Streblote concavum (Strand, 1912)
  • Streblote concolor (Walker, 1855)
  • Streblote cristata (Stoll, 1782)
  • Streblote cupreum (Distant, 1899)
  • Streblote jansei (Tams, 1936)
  • Streblote polydora (Druce, 1887)
  • Streblote uniforme (Aurivillius, 1927)
  • Trichiurana meridionalis Aurivillius, 1921
  • Trichopisthia igneotincta (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Trichopisthia monteiroi (Druce, 1887)

Family Lecithoceridae

Family Lemoniidae

Family Limacodidae

  • Afraltha chionostola (Hampson, 1910)
  • Afraltha luxuriosa (Hering, 1928)
  • Afrobirthama flaccidia (Druce, 1899)
  • Afrobirthama hobohmi Janse, 1964
  • Afrobirthama reducta Hering, 1928
  • Afromiresa ustitermina (Hampson, 1910)
  • Apluda plebeja Wallengren, 1863
  • Apreptophanes stevensoni Janse, 1964
  • Arctozygaena quinquemaculata Gaede, 1926
  • Astatophlebia marmarobrunnea Janse, 1964
  • Brachia albiviata (Hampson, 1910)
  • Brachia amblygrapta Janse, 1964
  • Brachia breijeri (Janse, 1964)
  • Brachypecta perobliqua Janse, 1964
  • Caffricola cloeckneria (Stoll, 1781)
  • Caffricola kenyensis Talbot, 1932
  • Caffricola vicina Alberti, 1954
  • Chrysamma amabilis Clench, 1955
  • Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896
  • Chrysopoloma bicolor (Distant, 1897)
  • Chrysopoloma flaviceps Aurivillius, 1901
  • Chrysopoloma isabellina Aurivillius, 1895
  • Chrysopoloma pallens Hering, 1923
  • Chrysopoloma paupera Hering, 1925
  • Chrysopoloma restricta Distant, 1899
  • Chrysopoloma rudis (Walker, 1865)
  • Chrysopoloma similis Aurivillius, 1895
  • Chrysopoloma varia Distant, 1899
  • Coenobasis albiramosa (Walker, 1865)
  • Coenobasis amoena Felder, 1874
  • Coenobasis hemichlora Grünberg, 1910
  • Coenobasis intermedia Janse, 1964
  • Coenobasis panochra Janse, 1964
  • Coenobasis turneri West, 1937
  • Cosuma polana Druce, 1887
  • Crothaema conspicua Janse, 1964
  • Crothaema decorata Distant, 1892
  • Crothaema schoutedeni Hering, 1954
  • Ctenolita melanosticta (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
  • Delorhachis kilosa West, 1940
  • Deltoptera iphia Janse, 1964
  • Ectropa ancilis Wallengren, 1863
  • Exanthica atelacma Meyrick, 1926
  • Exanthica trigonella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Gavara velutina Walker, 1857
  • Halseyia basiclara (Hering, 1937)
  • Halseyia bisecta (Butler, 1898)
  • Halseyia biumbrata (Hampson, 1910)
  • Halseyia intacta (Hering, 1937)
  • Halseyia pseudobisecta (Hering, 1937)
  • Halseyia rectifascia (Hering, 1937)
  • Halseyia tamsi (Hering, 1937)
  • Hamartia clarissa Hering, 1937
  • Hamartia medora Hering, 1937
  • Homosusica eugrapha Janse, 1964
  • Inous nigripalpis Walker, 1855
  • Isozinara pallidifascia Janse, 1964
  • Jordaniana lactea (Pagenstecher, 1903)
  • Latoia albicosta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Latoia anagaura Janse, 1964
  • Latoia eremotropha Janse, 1964
  • Latoia johannes (Distant, 1898)
  • Latoia latistriga (Walker, 1855)
  • Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
  • Latoia urda (Druce, 1887)
  • Latoia viridifascia Holland, 1893
  • Latoia viridimixta Janse, 1964
  • Latoia vitilena (Karsch, 1896)
  • Latoia vivida (Walker, 1865)
  • Latoiola pusilla (Aurivillius, 1900)
  • Macroplectra meridionalis Hering, 1928
  • Macroplectra rufopallens Hampson, 1910
  • Macroplectra tripunctata Mabille, 1900
  • Micraphe lateritia Karsch, 1896
  • Monopecta castanea Janse, 1964
  • Natada chrysaspis Hampson, 1910
  • Natada kochi Janse, 1964
  • Neogavara imitans Janse, 1964
  • Neomocena brunneocrossa Janse, 1964
  • Neomocena convergens (Hering, 1928)
  • Niphadolepis bipunctata Hering, 1929
  • Omocenoides isophanes Janse, 1964
  • Paraphlebs singularis Aurivillius, 1921
  • Parapluda invitabilis (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Parapluda neglecta (Hering, 1928)
  • Parasa chapmani Kirby, 1892
  • Probalintha inclusa Walker, 1865
  • Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Pseudothosea albisignata Janse, 1964
  • Scotinocerides fasciata Hering, 1937
  • Scotinocerides pseudorestricta Hering, 1937
  • Scotinochroa diplothysana Tams, 1932
  • Scotinochroa inconsequens Butler, 1897
  • Scotinochroa rufescens Janse, 1964
  • Semyrilla lineata (Holland, 1893)
  • Sporetolepis platti Janse, 1964
  • Stroter capillatus Karsch, 1899
  • Stroter dukei Janse, 1964
  • Stroter intermissa (Walker, 1865)
  • Susicena pyrocausta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Taeda aetitis Wallengren, 1863
  • Taeda connexa (Janse, 1964)
  • Taeda gemmans (Felder, 1874)
  • Thosea platti West, 1937
  • Trachyptena holobrunnea (Janse, 1964)
  • Trogocrada deleter Tams, 1953
  • Trogocrada dimorpha Janse, 1964
  • Unipectiphora delosignata Janse, 1964
  • Zarachella specularis Jordan, 1915
  • Zinara discophora Hampson, 1910
  • Zinara nervosa Walker, 1869
  • Zorostola melanoxantha Janse, 1964

Family Lymantriidae

  • Aclonophlebia rhodea Hampson, 1905
  • Aroa anthora (Felder, 1874)
  • Aroa difficilis Walker, 1865
  • Aroa discalis Walker, 1855
  • Aroa melanoleuca Hampson, 1905
  • Bicelluphora argentea Janse, 1915
  • Bracharoa dregei (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
  • Bracharoa mixta (Snellen, 1872)
  • Bracharoa quadripunctata (Wallengren, 1875)
  • Bracharoa tricolor (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
  • Cimola opalina Walker, 1855
  • Creagra liturata (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
  • Cropera phlebitis (Hampson, 1905)
  • Cropera sericea (Hampson, 1910)
  • Cropera stilpnaroma Hering, 1926
  • Cropera testacea Walker, 1855
  • Crorema adspersa (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
  • Crorema fulvinotata (Butler, 1893)
  • Crorema nigropunctata Collenette, 1931
  • Crorema setinoides (Holland, 1893)
  • Dasychira pennatula (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Dasychira polia Hering, 1926
  • Dasychira punctifera (Walker, 1857)
  • Dicranuropsis vilis Felder, 1874
  • Eudasychira georgiana (Fawcett, 1900)
  • Eudasychira metathermes (Hampson, 1905)
  • Eudasychira poliotis (Hampson, 1910)
  • Eudasychira proleprota (Hampson, 1905)
  • Euproctis aethiopica (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Euproctis beato Bryk, 1934
  • Euproctis bicolor Janse, 1915
  • Euproctis chionea Collenette, 1956
  • Euproctis crocata (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Euproctis flavicincta Janse, 1915
  • Euproctis haemodetes Hampson, 1905
  • Euproctis hardenbergia (Janse, 1915)
  • Euproctis iridescens Janse, 1915
  • Euproctis melanura (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Euproctis nigripuncta Janse, 1915
  • Euproctis pallida (Kirby, 1896)
  • Euproctis petavia (Stoll, 1782)
  • Euproctis producta (Walker, 1863)
  • Euproctis punctifera (Walker, 1855)
  • Euproctis rufopunctata (Walker, 1862)
  • Euproctis sanguigutta Hampson, 1905
  • Euproctis squamosa (Walker, 1855)
  • Euproctis straminicolor Janse, 1915
  • Euproctis subalba (Janse, 1915)
  • Euproctis terminalis (Walker, 1854)
  • Euproctoides ertli (Wichgraf, 1922)
  • Hemerophanes diatoma (Hering, 1926)
  • Hemerophanes libyra (Druce, 1896)
  • Homochira rendalli (Distant, 1897)
  • Homoeomeria flavicapilla (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Homoeomeria nivea Aurivillius, 1909
  • Knappetra arenacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Knappetra fasciata (Walker, 1855)
  • Lacipa bizonoides Butler, 1893
  • Lacipa distanti Dewitz, 1881
  • Lacipa florida (Swinhoe, 1903)
  • Lacipa gemmata Distant, 1897
  • Lacipa nobilis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
  • Lacipa picta (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Lacipa pulverea Distant, 1898
  • Lacipa quadripunctata Dewitz, 1881
  • Lacipa sarcistis Hampson, 1905
  • Lacipa sexpunctata Distant, 1897
  • Laelia albimaculata (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia amata (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia amaura Hering, 1926
  • Laelia angustipennis (Walker, 1855)
  • Laelia aurea Janse, 1915
  • Laelia aurivillii (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia basifurca (Walker, 1865)
  • Laelia batoides Plötz, 1880
  • Laelia bifascia Hampson, 1905
  • Laelia bonaberiensis (Strand, 1915)
  • Laelia bryophilina (Hampson, 1910)
  • Laelia clarki Janse, 1915
  • Laelia confinis (Distant, 1899)
  • Laelia curvivirgata Karsch, 1895
  • Laelia danva (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
  • Laelia diascia Hampson, 1905
  • Laelia ecscota (Hampson, 1905)
  • Laelia esthlopis (Collenette, 1953)
  • Laelia extatura (Distant, 1897)
  • Laelia extorta (Distant, 1897)
  • Laelia figlina Distant, 1899
  • Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
  • Laelia fusca (Walker, 1855)
  • Laelia gephyra (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia haematica Hampson, 1905
  • Laelia hampsoni (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia herbida (Walker, 1856)
  • Laelia hughesi (Collenette, 1933)
  • Laelia janenschi Hering, 1926
  • Laelia lavia Swinhoe, 1903
  • Laelia lunensis (Hampson, 1905)
  • Laelia mediofasciata (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia melaxantha (Walker, 1865)
  • Laelia municipalis Distant, 1897
  • Laelia nigripulverea Janse, 1915
  • Laelia nubifuga (Holland, 1893)
  • Laelia octophora (Hampson, 1905)
  • Laelia phenax (Collenette, 1932)
  • Laelia pluto (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia postpura (Hampson, 1905)
  • Laelia pulcherrima (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia punctulata (Butler, 1875)
  • Laelia pyrosoma (Hampson, 1910)
  • Laelia robusta Janse, 1915
  • Laelia rocana (Swinhoe, 1906)
  • Laelia rosea Schaus & Clements, 1893
  • Laelia subrosea (Walker, 1855)
  • Laelia subviridis Janse, 1915
  • Laelia swinnyi Janse, 1915
  • Laelia thanatos (Hering, 1926)
  • Laelia xyleutis Hampson, 1905
  • Lepidopalpus hyalina Janse, 1915
  • Leptaroa paupera Hering, 1926
  • Leucoma monosticta (Butler, 1898)
  • Leucoma ogovensis (Holland, 1893)
  • Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
  • Lymantria disparina (Hering, 1926)
  • Lymantria kettlewelli Collenette, 1953
  • Lymantria tacita Hering, 1927
  • Marblepsis flabellaria (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Marblepsis melanocraspis (Hampson, 1905)
  • Micraroa minima Janse, 1915
  • Micraroa rufescens Hampson, 1905
  • Morasa modesta Walker, 1855
  • Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
  • Ogoa simplex Walker, 1856
  • Olapa fulviceps Hampson, 1910
  • Olapa furva Hampson, 1905
  • Olapa nigricosta Hampson, 1905
  • Olapa nuda Holland, 1893
  • Olene basalis (Walker, 1855)
  • Palasea albimacula Wallengren, 1863
  • Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
  • Paraproctis chionopeza Collenette, 1954
  • Penthophera lutea (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Penthophera subfusca (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Pirga pellucida Wichgraf, 1922
  • Pirga transvalensis Janse, 1915
  • Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855
  • Psalis africana Kiriakoff, 1956
  • Psalis securis Hübner, 1823
  • Pseudobazisa perculta (Distant, 1897)
  • Pseudobazisa sericea (Hampson, 1910)
  • Pteredoa monosticta (Butler, 1898)
  • Pteredoa plumosa Hampson, 1905
  • Pteredoa usebia (Swinhoe, 1903)
  • Repena fusca Walker, 1856
  • Rhypopteryx diplogramma Hering, 1927
  • Rhypopteryx hemichrysa Collenette, 1960
  • Rhypopteryx lugardi (Swinhoe, 1903)
  • Rhypopteryx rhodalipha (Felder, 1874)
  • Rhypopteryx rhodea (Hampson, 1905
  • Rhypopteryx rubripunctata (Weymer, 1892)
  • Ruanda furva (Hampson, 1905)
  • Ruanda nuda (Holland, 1897)
  • Schalidomitra ambages Strand, 1911
  • Stracena bananae (Butler, 1897)
  • Stracena tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
  • Stracena telesilla (Druce, 1899)
  • Tearosoma aspersum Felder, 1874

Family Lyonetiidae

Family Metarbelidae

Family Micropterigidae

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

  • Acripia chloropera Hampson, 1902
  • Acripia leprosa (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
  • Acripia scapularis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
  • Acripia semiviridis Hampson, 1902
  • Acripia subolivacea Walker, 1863
  • Aiteta veluta Hampson, 1912
  • Arcyophora elegantula Grünberg, 1910
  • Arcyophora longivalvis Guenée, 1852
  • Arcyophora nudipes Wallengren, 1856
  • Blenina albifascia Pinhey, 1968
  • Blenina diagona Hampson, 1912
  • Blenina squamifera (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Bryophilopsis curvifera Hampson, 1912
  • Bryophilopsis tarachoides Mabille, 1900
  • Bryothripa miophaea Hampson, 1912
  • Characoma melanographa Hampson, 1918
  • Characoma miophora Hampson, 1912
  • Characoma nigricollaris Hampson, 1918
  • Characoma stictigrapta Hampson, 1914
  • Characoma submediana Wiltshire, 1986
  • Cremopalpus inquirendus Strand, 1909
  • Cryptothripa polyhymnia (Hampson, 1902)
  • Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
  • Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
  • Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Gigantoceras rectilinea Hampson, 1912
  • Goniocalpe heteromorpha Hampson, 1920
  • Goniocalpe sericealis (Hampson, 1902)
  • Labanda bryochlora Hampson, 1902
  • Leocyma appollinis Guenée, 1852
  • Leocyma discophora Hampson, 1912
  • Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912
  • Maurilia arcuata (Walker, [1858])
  • Meganola infuscata (Hampson, 1903)
  • Meganola lucia (van Son, 1933)
  • Meganola subalbalis (Zeller, 1852)
  • Metanola gladstonei van Son, 1933
  • Metanola myriostigma van Son, 1933
  • Neaxestis acutangula Hampson, 1902
  • Neaxestis rhoda Hampson, 1905
  • Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858)
  • Negeta ruficeps (Hampson, 1902)
  • Nola argyrolepis Hampson, 1907
  • Nola barbertonensis (van Son, 1933)
  • Nola bicincta Hampson, 1905
  • Nola holoscota Hampson, 1920
  • Nola imitata (van Son, 1933)
  • Nola internella (Walker, 1865)
  • Nola iridescens (van Son, 1933)
  • Nola leucalea Hampson, 1907
  • Nola major Hampson, 1891
  • Nola melanoscelis (Hampson, 1914)
  • Nola meridionalis Wallengren, 1875
  • Nola mesoscota Hampson, 1909
  • Nola monofascia van Son, 1933
  • Nola patricia van Son, 1933
  • Nola phaeocraspis (Hampson, 1909)
  • Nola poliotis Hampson, 1907
  • Nola praefica Saalmüller, 1884
  • Nola sarniensis (van Son, 1933)
  • Nola socotrensis (Hampson, 1901)
  • Nola squalida Staudinger, 1870
  • Nola steniphona van Son, 1933
  • Nola swierstrai van Son, 1933
  • Nola taeniata Snellen, 1874
  • Nola tineoides (Walker, [1858])
  • Nola transitoria van Son, 1933
  • Nolidia carolinae van Son, 1933
  • Nolidia unipuncta van Son, 1933
  • Nycteola malachitis (Hampson, 1912)
  • Oedicraspis subfervida Hampson, 1912
  • Paranola bipartita van Son, 1933
  • Paranola nigristriga van Son, 1933
  • Paraxestis rufescens Hampson, 1902
  • Pardasena atripuncta Hampson, 1912
  • Pardasena minorella Walker, 1866
  • Pardasena punctata Hampson, 1902
  • Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
  • Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
  • Periplusia cinerascens Holland, 1894
  • Poecilonola littoralis van Son, 1933
  • Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881
  • Risoba sticticraspis Hampson, 1912
  • Selepa docilis Butler, 1881
  • Selepa leucogonia (Hampson, 1905)
  • Selepa rufescens Hampson, 1912
  • Selepa transvalica Hampson, 1912
  • Vandamia lightfooti van Son, 1933
  • Vandamia mariepi van Son, 1933
  • Vandamia typica van Son, 1933
  • Westermannia araeogramma Hampson, 1905
  • Westermannia argyroplaga Hampson, 1905
  • Westermannia convergens Hampson, 1902
  • Westermannia roseitincta Pinhey, 1968
  • Westermannia superba Hübner, 1823
  • Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Family Notodontidae

  • Acrasiella curvilinea (Swinhoe, 1907)
  • Adrallia bipunctata Walker, 1865
  • Afrogluphisia demas Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Afroplitis dasychirina (Gaede, 1928)
  • Afroplitis phyllocampa (Trimen, 1909)
  • Amphiphalera nigripuncta Kiriakoff, 1975
  • Amyops ingens Karsch, 1895
  • Anaphe panda (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Anaphe reticulata Walker, 1855
  • Antheua anodonta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Antheua aurifodinae (Distant, 1902)
  • Antheua consanguinea Distant, 1903
  • Antheua croceipuncta Hampson, 1910
  • Antheua delicata Bethune-Baker, 1911
  • Antheua dimorpha Janse, 1920
  • Antheua extenuata Walker, 1869
  • Antheua insignata Gaede, 1928
  • Antheua mixta Janse, 1920
  • Antheua ornata (Walker, 1865)
  • Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
  • Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855
  • Antheua woerdeni (Snellen, 1872)
  • Antheuella flavida (Hampson, 1910)
  • Antheuella incana (Janse, 1920)
  • Anticleapa varii Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Archistilbia varii Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Arciera phragmatoecioides (Rothschild, 1917)
  • Atrasana nigrosignata Kiriakoff, 1975
  • Atrasana postica Walker, 1856
  • Atrasana rectilinea (Gaede, 1928)
  • Atrasana uncifera (Hampson, 1910)
  • Batempa plana Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Bilulua strigata Kiriakoff, 1954
  • Bisolita rubrifascia (Hampson, 1910)
  • Bisolita strigata (Aurivillius, 1906)
  • Catastygne tristicolor (Gaede, 1928)
  • Catochria catocaloides Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
  • Catochria postflava Kiriakoff, 1955
  • Cerurella natalensis Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Chlorocalliope calliope (Hampson, 1910)
  • Chlorocalliope subvernalis Kiriakoff, 1958
  • Chlorochadisra viridipulverea (Gaede, 1928)
  • Clostera lentisignata (Hampson, 1910)
  • Clostera limacodina Kühne, 2010
  • Clostera roseotincta (Janse, 1920)
  • Clostera violacearia (Janse, 1920)
  • Clostera vumba Kiriakoff, 1981
  • Crambometra derelicta Prout, 1915
  • Crambometra gladstonei (Janse, 1920)
  • Crambometra vandenbergae Kiriakoff, 1981
  • Dasychirella cinderella Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Deinarchia agramma (Hampson, 1910)
  • Desmeocraera atribasalis (Hampson, 1910)
  • Desmeocraera basalis Distant, 1899
  • Desmeocraera congoana Aurivillius, 1900
  • Desmeocraera dorsalis Kiriakoff, 1981
  • Desmeocraera griseiviridis (Hampson, 1910)
  • Desmeocraera interpellatrix (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Desmeocraera jansei Kiriakoff, 1958
  • Desmeocraera latex (Druce, 1901)
  • Desmeocraera nugatrix Felder, 1874
  • Desmeocraera octoginta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Desmeocraera platti Janse, 1920
  • Desmeocraera tripuncta Janse, 1920
  • Desmeocraera uniformis Gaede, 1928
  • Desmeocraera vernalis Distant, 1897
  • Desmeocraera zombae Kiriakoff, 1958
  • Disracha persimilis (Hampson, 1910)
  • Elaphrodes duplex (Gaede, 1928)
  • Epanaphe clarilla Aurivillius, 1904
  • Epicerulella imitans Kiriakoff, 1981
  • Epicerura pergrisea (Hampson, 1910)
  • Epicerura steniptera (Hampson, 1910)
  • Epidonta brunneomixta (Mabille, 1897)
  • Euanthia venosa Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Eubreyeria dasychiroides (Janse, 1920)
  • Eurystaura brunnea Janse, 1920
  • Eurystaura griseitincta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Eurystauridia medialis (Gaede, 1928)
  • Eurystauridia triangularis (Gaede, 1928)
  • Eutimia marpissa Wallengren, 1858
  • Graphodonta fulva (Kiriakoff, 1962)
  • Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910)
  • Haplozana nigrolineata Aurivillius, 1901
  • Iostaura jansei Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Iridoplitis iridescens Kiriakoff, 1955
  • Janthinisca badia Kiriakoff, 1979
  • Janthinisca linda Kiriakoff, 1979
  • Jozinia leonina Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Lopiena decorata Kiriakoff, 1975
  • Metascrancia jansei Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Metopteryx cinerea (Janse, 1920)
  • Metopteryx rattus (Kiriakoff, 1970)
  • Notocerura spiritalis (Distant, 1899)
  • Notoxantha sesamiodes Hampson, 1910
  • Odontoperas heterogyna (Hampson, 1910)
  • Odontoperas obliqualinea (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Odontoperas rosacea Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Paradiastema pulverea Hampson, 1910
  • Pararethona hierax (Distant, 1897)
  • Peratodonta gypsitea (Kiriakoff, 1968)
  • Phalera imitata Druce, 1896
  • Phalera lignitea Mabille, 1900
  • Phalera lydenburgi Distant, 1899
  • Phycitimorpha stigmatica Janse, 1920
  • Phyllaliodes agramma Hampson, 1910
  • Phyllaliodes poliostrota (Hampson, 1910)
  • Polelassothys plumitarsus Janse, 1920
  • Polienus capillata (Wallengren, 1875)
  • Polienus fuscatus Janse, 1920
  • Polienus rubritincta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Psalisodes defasciata Gaede, 1928
  • Pseudorethona albicans (Walker, 1855)
  • Pseudoscrancia africana (Holland, 1893)
  • Quista cinereomixta Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Rasemia dasychira (Hampson, 1910)
  • Rasemia euzopherodes (Hampson, 1910)
  • Rasemia macrodonta (Hampson, 1909)
  • Rhenea mediata (Walker, 1865)
  • Rhenea rufescens Kiriakoff, 1954
  • Riebeeckia whittakeri Kiriakoff, 1981
  • Rosinella rosinaria (Hampson, 1910)
  • Sarimarais bicolor (Distant, 1899)
  • Sarimarais peringueyi (Janse, 1920)
  • Sarimarais quarta Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Scalmicauda oneili Janse, 1920
  • Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911)
  • Scrancia atrifrons Hampson, 1910
  • Scrancia brunnescens Gaede, 1928
  • Scrancia discomma Jordan, 1916
  • Scrancia elanus Kiriakoff, 1971
  • Scrancia galactoperoides Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Scrancia milvus Kiriakoff, 1971
  • Scrancia stictica Hampson, 1910
  • Simesia dasychiroides (Butler, 1898)
  • Stemmatophalera semiflava (Hampson, 1910)
  • Stenostaura impeditus (Walker, 1865)
  • Stenostaura minutissima Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Stenostaura subtilis Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Stenostaura varians (Kiriakoff, 1962)
  • Subscrancia albobrunnea Kiriakoff, 1970
  • Subscrancia nigra (Aurivillius, 1904)
  • Synete olivaceofusca (Rothschild, 1917)
  • Thaumetopoea apologetica Strand, 1909
  • Trotonotus bettoni Butler, 1898

Family Oecophoridae

  • Aeoloscelis tripoda Meyrick, 1913
  • Agroecodes comata Meyrick, 1937
  • Alabonia coarctata (Walsingham, 1881)
  • Amphipseustis disputanda Meyrick, 1921
  • Anchinia furculata Meyrick, 1924
  • Anchinia oenochares Meyrick, 1924
  • Antaeotricha ovata Walsingham, 1881
  • Areocosma orsobela Meyrick, 1917
  • Aulotropha pentasticta Meyrick, 1918
  • Batia decurrens (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Borkhausenia intumescens Meyrick, 1921
  • Briarostoma pyrrhopsamma Meyrick, 1920
  • Ceranthes apellodora Meyrick, 1926
  • Ceranthes syncrotaula Meyrick, 1926
  • Ceranthes thiota Meyrick, 1918
  • Chalcorectis argoplecta Meyrick, 1937
  • Choronoma isoxysta Meyrick, 1926
  • Coesyra balantias Meyrick, 1908
  • Coesyra campylotis Meyrick, 1914
  • Coesyra centrobola Meyrick, 1914
  • Coesyra rutila Meyrick, 1912
  • Crystallogenes chalcoschista Meyrick, 1937
  • Diocosma callichroa Meyrick, 1909
  • Diocosma ceramopis Meyrick, 1909
  • Diocosma eotrocha Meyrick, 1918
  • Diocosma molybdela Meyrick, 1917
  • Diocosma obliquestrigella (Walsingham, 1881)
  • Diocosma tricycla Meyrick, 1909
  • Diocosma zarifa Meyrick, 1921
  • Doxomeres diaxantha Meyrick, 1917
  • Endrosis psammodora Meyrick, 1921
  • Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Epiphractis aulica Meyrick, 1912
  • Epiphractis crocoplecta Meyrick, 1913
  • Epiphractis imbellis Meyrick, 1914
  • Epiphractis rubricata Meyrick, 1913
  • Epiphractis sarcopa (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Epiphractis thysanarcha Meyrick, 1918
  • Eucleodora chalybeella Walsingham, 1881
  • Eucleodora ingrata Meyrick, 1913
  • Eulechria phaeopsamma Meyrick, 1913
  • Harpella scolopistis Meyrick, 1909
  • Hednophora pyritis Meyrick, 1911
  • Heterozyga gyrospila Meyrick, 1918
  • Hypercallia haematella Felder, 1875
  • Hypercallia sincera Meyrick, 1909
  • Hypercallia subreticulata Walsingham, 1881
  • Isocrita eremasta Meyrick, 1914
  • Isocrita ithydoxa Meyrick, 1920
  • Isocrita protophanes Meyrick, 1927
  • Isocrita psalactis Meyrick, 1912
  • Isocrita stolarcha Meyrick, 1909
  • Meloteles xanthodoxa Meyrick, 1920
  • Metachanda citrodesma (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Metachanda oxyacma Meyrick, 1928
  • Metachanda trimetopa Meyrick, 1937
  • Ocystola proxena Meyrick, 1914
  • Oedematopoda illucens (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Oedematopoda princeps (Zeller, 1852)
  • Opsigenes parastacta Meyrick, 1918
  • Oxyscopa dealbata Meyrick, 1926
  • Pachyrhabda triplecta Meyrick, 1913
  • Pachyrhabda unctoria Meyrick, 1911
  • Parapleuris oxycrena Meyrick, 1937
  • Philametris aethalopa Meyrick, 1924
  • Philobota chalinitis Meyrick, 1909
  • Philobota dryinota Meyrick, 1914
  • Philobota erastis Meyrick, 1910
  • Philobota tectifera Meyrick, 1909
  • Philobota virgo Walsingham, 1891
  • Phratriodes curvisignis Meyrick, 1926
  • Picrogenes bactrospila Meyrick, 1917
  • Plesiosticha acida (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Plesiosticha endocentra (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Plesiosticha galactaea (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Pleurota drucella (Walsingham, 1881)
  • Promalactis geometrica Meyrick, 1913
  • Promalactis recurva Meyrick, 1914
  • Promalactis scalmotoma Meyrick, 1918
  • Promalactis sphaerograpta Meyrick, 1937
  • Promalactis veridica Meyrick, 1913
  • Protomacha conservata Meyrick, 1918
  • Protomacha sosigona Meyrick, 1920
  • Rhoecoptera gigas (Walsingham, 1891)
  • Saropla dryozona Meyrick, 1913
  • Schiffermuelleria helminthias Meyrick, 1918
  • Schiffermuelleria pedicata Meyrick, 1918
  • Selidoris deligata (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Stathmopoda arcata Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
  • Stathmopoda autoxantha Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda citrinopis Meyrick, 1927
  • Stathmopoda crassella Walsingham, 1891
  • Stathmopoda ficivora Kasy, 1973
  • Stathmopoda glyceropa Meyrick, 1915
  • Stathmopoda hemiplecta Meyrick, 1921
  • Stathmopoda luminata Meyrick, 1911
  • Stathmopoda lychnacma (Meyrick, 1927)
  • Stathmopoda maculata Walsingham, 1891
  • Stathmopoda pomifera Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda trichodora (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Stathmopoda xanthoplitis Meyrick, 1908
  • Tanyzancla diorycta Meyrick, 1920
  • Tanyzancla semistricta Meyrick, 1920
  • Teratopsis tunicella Walsingham, 1881
  • Thamnocrana haemorrhoa Meyrick, 1927
  • Thyestarcha acrogypsa Meyrick, 1917
  • Thyestarcha edax Meyrick, 1912

Family Opostegidae

Family Plutellidae

  • Gypsosaris coniata Meyrick, 1909
  • Lepocnemis bascanopa Meyrick, 1913
  • Plutella balanopis Meyrick, 1909
  • Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family Prodoxidae

  • Lampronia albifusa Meyrick, 1926
  • Sindonophora leucozona Meyrick, 1917

Family Prototheoridae

Family Psychidae

  • Acanthopsyche roomei Bourgogne, 1984
  • Acanthopsyche tristis Janse, 1917
  • Amydria poliodes Meyrick, 1909
  • Australoplacodoma bicolorata Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
  • Bacotia trimenii (Heylaerts, 1891)
  • Bambalina africa Bourgogne, 1984
  • Barbaroscardia metaclina Meyrick, 1920
  • Bythogenes atechna Meyrick, 1937
  • Cathalistis orinephela Meyrick, 1917
  • Commotrias eucolapta Meyrick, 1924
  • Cryptothelea zelleri (Heylaerts, 1884)
  • Ctenocompa famula Meyrick, 1920
  • Ctenocompa perlucescens Meyrick, 1927
  • Ctenocompa vafra Meyrick, 1921
  • Ctenocompa zascia Meyrick, 1920
  • Deborreides febrettina (Bourgogne, 1965)
  • Diaphanopsyche rogenhoferi (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Dissoctena affinis Walsingham, 1891
  • Epaleura salaria Meyrick, 1917
  • Epichnopterix transvalica Hampson, 1910
  • Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
  • Eumeta hardenbergeri Bourgogne, 1955
  • Eumeta zelleri Heylaerts, 1884
  • Fallacipsyche adelpha Bourgogne, 1977
  • Gymnelema discerpta Meyrick, 1924
  • Gymnelema holopercna Meyrick, 1924
  • Gymnelema leucopasta Hampson, 1910
  • Gymnelema pelverulenta Hampson, 1910
  • Gymnelema plebigena Meyrick, 1924
  • Gymnelema stibarodes (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Gymnelema stygialis Hampson, 1910
  • Gymnelema vinctus (Walker, 1865)
  • Janseides subhyalina (Janse, 1917)
  • Kotochalia junodi (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Lasioctena sisyraea Meyrick, 1887
  • Lytrophila humida Meyrick, 1913
  • Lytrophila ingeminata Meyrick, 1914
  • Lytrophila panarga Meyrick, 1913
  • Lytrophila phaulopa Meyrick, 1921
  • Lytrophila sporarcha Meyrick, 1921
  • Mallobathra zophaula Meyrick, 1920
  • Melasina hippias Meyrick, 1921
  • Melasina lanyphaea Meyrick, 1924
  • Melasina nigra Meyrick, 1910
  • Mesopherna incultella (Walker, 1864)
  • Metisa aethiops (Hampson, 1910)
  • Metisa heylaertsi (Junod, 1898)
  • Metisa jansei Bourgogne, 1973
  • Monda bicolor Strand, 1911
  • Monda delicatissima Walker, 1865
  • Narycia antibatis Meyrick, 1926
  • Narycia centropa Meyrick, 1922
  • Narycia isoxantha Meyrick, 1920
  • Narycia prothyrodes Meyrick, 1921
  • Narycia saccharata (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Narycia transvaalicola Strand, 1929
  • Oiketicoides maledicta (Scheben, 1910)
  • Penestoglossa capensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Picrospora achlyota (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Picrospora amalthea (Meyrick, 1937)
  • Picrospora anastrota Meyrick, 1912
  • Picrospora araea Meyrick, 1912
  • Picrospora chrysochalca (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Picrospora coniographa (Meyrick, 1928)
  • Picrospora crocostacta (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Picrospora frigens (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Picrospora furcifera (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Picrospora inops (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Picrospora isometra (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Picrospora lithacopa Meyrick, 1920
  • Picrospora medicata (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Picrospora ochrophragma (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Picrospora protocentra Meyrick, 1921
  • Picrospora purgata Meyrick, 1913
  • Picrospora secura (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Picrospora selmatarcha (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Placodoma fulva Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
  • Pseudometisa alba (Janse, 1917)
  • Psyche fatalis Meyrick, 1926
  • Psyche luticoma (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Psyche obscurata Meyrick, 1917
  • Psyche ominosa (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Psyche pinicola Meyrick, 1937
  • Sapheneutis certificata Meyrick, 1918
  • Sapheneutis galactodes Meyrick, 1915
  • Sapheneutis thlipsias Meyrick, 1915
  • Sclerophricta tyreuta Meyrick, 1918
  • Sematocera fuliginipuncta Durrant, 1892
  • Taleporia discussa Meyrick, 1921
  • Taleporia mesochlora Meyrick, 1918
  • Taleporia sciacta Meyrick, 1921
  • Thranitica hemicopa Meyrick, 1908
  • Trichocossus albiguttata Hampson, 1910
  • Trichocossus arvensis Janse, 1917
  • Typhonia abacodes (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia amica (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia animosa (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Typhonia bettoni (Butler, 1898)
  • Typhonia circophora (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Typhonia cnaphalodes (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Typhonia craterodes (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Typhonia cylindraula (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Typhonia dissoluta (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia effervescens (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Typhonia gypsopetra (Meyrick, 1937)
  • Typhonia halieutis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia homopercna (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Typhonia indigena (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Typhonia interscissa (Meyrick, 1924)
  • Typhonia inveterata (Meyrick, 1915)
  • Typhonia linodyta (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Typhonia liochra (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia marmarodes (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Typhonia mylica (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia nectaritis (Meyrick, 1915)
  • Typhonia nigrescens (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Typhonia paraphrictis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia pelostrota (Meyrick, 1927)
  • Typhonia petrodes (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Typhonia picea (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Typhonia salicoma (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Typhonia stelitis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia stupea (Wallengren, 1875)
  • Typhonia susurrans (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Typhonia systolaea (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Typhonia talaria (Meyrick, 1924)
  • Typhonia tanyphaea (Meyrick, 1924)
  • Typhonia tyrophanes (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Zelomora phlyctidota Meyrick, 1920

Family Pterophoridae

Family Pyralidae

About 506 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Pyralidae)

Family Saturniidae

  • Adafroptilum incana (Sonthonnax, 1899)
  • Antistathmoptera daltonae Tams, 1935
  • Antistathmoptera rectangulata Pinhey, 1968
  • Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
  • Aurivillius fusca (Rothschild, 1895)
  • Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
  • Bunaeopsis annabellae Lemaire & Rougeot, 1975
  • Bunaeopsis arabella (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Bunaeopsis jacksoni (Jordan, 1908)
  • Campimoptilum kuntzei (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Cinabra hyperbius (Westwood, 1881)
  • Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
  • Decachorda fulvia (Druce, 1886)
  • Eochroa trimenii Felder, 1874
  • Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Epiphora manowensis (Gschwandner, 1923)
  • Epiphora mythimnia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Gonimbrasia anna (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
  • Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1849)
  • Gonimbrasia bubo (Bouvier, 1930)
  • Gonimbrasia carnigiei (Janse, 1918)
  • Gonimbrasia cytherea (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Gonimbrasia perscitus (Darge, 1992)
  • Gonimbrasia rectilineata (Sonthonnax, 1899)
  • Gonimbrasia tyrrhea (Cramer, 1775)
  • Gonimbrasia wahlbergii (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Gonimbrasia zambesina (Walker, 1865)
  • Gynanisa ata Strand, 1911
  • Gynanisa maja (Klug, 1836)
  • Gynanisa meridiei Darge, 2008
  • Heniocha apollonia (Cramer, 1779)
  • Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872)
  • Heniocha marnois (Rogenhofer, 1891)
  • Holocerina agomensis (Karsch, 1896)
  • Holocerina smilax (Westwood, 1849)
  • Imbrasia ertli Rebel, 1904
  • Lobobunaea angasana (Westwood, 1849)
  • Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
  • Ludia delegorguei (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Ludia goniata Rothschild, 1907
  • Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1892
  • Melanocera dargei Terral, 1991
  • Melanocera menippe (Westwood, 1849)
  • Micragone cana (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Micragone nubifera Bouvier, 1936
  • Nudaurelia carnegiei Janse, 1918
  • Nudaurelia gueinzii (Staudinger, 1872)
  • Nudaurelia macrothyris (Rothschild, 1906)
  • Orthogonioptilum adiegetum Karsch, 1892
  • Pselaphelia flavivitta (Walker, 1862)
  • Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
  • Pseudobunaea epithyrena (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
  • Pseudobunaea irius (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Pseudobunaea tyrrhena (Westwood, 1849)
  • Rohaniella pygmaea (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
  • Tagoropsis flavinata (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

Family Sesiidae

Family Somabrachyidae

Family Sphingidae

Family Thyrididae

  • Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857
  • Arniocera elata Jordan, 1915
  • Arniocera erythropyga (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Arniocera lugubris Gaede, 1926
  • Arniocera zambesina (Walker, 1866)
  • Banisia aldabrana (Fryer, 1912)
  • Banisia jocatia (Whalley, 1971)
  • Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Banisia zamia (Whalley, 1971)
  • Bupota galbana Whalley, 1971
  • Bupota tranquilla Whalley, 1971
  • Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
  • Cecidothyris pexa (Hampson, 1906)
  • Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897
  • Chrysotypus reticulatus Whalley, 1971
  • Chrysotypus splendida (Warren, 1899)
  • Chrysotypus subflavus Whalley, 1971
  • Cornuterus nigropunctula (Pagenstecher, 1892)
  • Dilophura caudata (Jordan, 1907)
  • Dysodia antennata Whalley, 1968
  • Dysodia binoculata Warren, 1901
  • Dysodia constellata Warren, 1908
  • Dysodia crassa (Walker, 1865)
  • Dysodia fenestratella Warren, 1900
  • Dysodia flavidula Warren, 1908
  • Dysodia intermedia (Walker, 1865)
  • Dysodia parvita Whalley, 1971
  • Dysodia subsignata Warren, 1908
  • Epaena candida Whalley, 1971
  • Epaena danista Whalley, 1971
  • Epaena trijuncta (Warren, 1898)
  • Gnathodes helvella Whalley, 1971
  • Hapana minima Whalley, 1971
  • Hapana verticalis (Warren, 1899)
  • Hypolamprus curviflua (Warren, 1898)
  • Hypolamprus gangaba Whalley, 1971
  • Kalenga ansorgei (Warren, 1899)
  • Kalenga culanota Whalley, 1971
  • Kalenga maculanota Whalley, 1971
  • Kuja squamigera (Pagenstecher, 1892)
  • Lelymena misalis Karsch, 1900
  • Marmax smaragdina (Butler, 1888)
  • Nakawa fuscibasis (Hampson, 1906)
  • Nemea nivosa Whalley, 1971
  • Netrocera hemichrysa (Hampson, 1910)
  • Netrocera setioides Felder, 1874
  • Rhodoneura abacha Whalley, 1971
  • Rhodoneura disjuncta (Gaede, 1929)
  • Rhodoneura flavicilia Hampson, 1906
  • Rhodoneura lacunosa Whalley, 1971
  • Rhodoneura roseola Whalley, 1971
  • Rhodoneura serraticornis (Warren, 1899)
  • Toosa glaucopiformis Walker, 1856

Family Tineidae

  • Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Acridotarsa melipecta (Meyrick, 1915)
  • Amphixystis anchiala (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Amphixystis syntricha (Meyrick, 1910)
  • Antigambra amphitrocta Meyrick, 1927
  • Asymphyla asperata (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Ateliotum crymodes (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Ceratophaga obnoxia (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Ceratophaga tragoptila (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
  • Ceratophaga xanthastis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Cimitra horridella (Walker, 1863)
  • Cimitra spinignatha (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Clepticodes horocentra Meyrick, 1927
  • Contralissa catagrapta (Meyrick, 1927)
  • Cosmeombra doxochares (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Criticonoma chelonaea Meyrick, 1910
  • Criticonoma flaveata (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Crypsithyris fuscicoma Meyrick, 1937
  • Crypsithyris spissa Meyrick, 1918
  • Dasyses rugosella (Stainton, 1859)
  • Dicanica acrocentra Meyrick, 1913
  • Drosica abjectella Walker, 1963
  • Dryadaula zygodes (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Ectabola phaeocephala (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Edosa audens (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Edosa effulgens (Gozmány, 1965)
  • Edosa gypsoptera (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Edosa leucastis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Edosa lissochlora (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Edosa oratrix (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Edosa perinipha (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Edosa rhodesica (Gozmány, 1967)
  • Edosa sanctifica (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Ellochotis caligata (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Ellochotis exilis Gozmány & Vári, 1973
  • Ellochotis fraudulenta (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Ellochotis infausta Meyrick, 1920
  • Ellochotis leontopa (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Ellochotis opifica (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Ellochotis picroxesta (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Ellochotis purpurea (Stainton, 1860)
  • Ellochotis territa (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Ellochotis trophias (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Ellochotis verecunda (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Erechthias glossophora (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Eriozancla trachyphaea (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Exonomasis exolescens (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Glaucostolella oxyteles (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Graphidivalva genitalis (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Hapsifera glebata Meyrick, 1908
  • Hapsifera meliceris Meyrick, 1908
  • Hapsifera ochroptila Meyrick, 1908
  • Hapsifera pardalea Meyrick, 1908
  • Harmaclona natalensis Bradley, 1953
  • Homalopsycha pericharacta Meyrick, 1924
  • Homalopsycha rapida (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Hyperbola chloristis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Hyperbola phocina (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Janseana sceptica (Meyrick, 1910)
  • Janseana vibrata (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Lindera tessellatella Blanchard, 1852
  • Meessia sesquitertia (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Miarotagmata penetrata (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Minicorona tricarpa (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
  • Monopis lamprostola Meyrick, 1918
  • Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
  • Monopis meyricki Gozmány, 1967
  • Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
  • Monopis nepheloscopa Meyrick, 1928
  • Monopis persimilis Gozmány, 1965
  • Monopis rejectella (Walker, 1864)
  • Monopis rutilicostella (Stainton, 1860)
  • Monopis speculella (Zeller, 1852)
  • Monopis transeans Gozmány, 1965
  • Morophaga soror Gozmány, 1965
  • Myrmecozela isopsamma Meyrick, 1920
  • Myrmecozela paurosperma Meyrick, 1926
  • Myrmecozela pogonopis Meyrick, 1926
  • Nearolyma pyrsocoma (Meyrick, 1937)
  • Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Nyctocyrmata crotalopis (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Ochetoxena phaneraula Meyrick, 1920
  • Ocnophilella autocrypta (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Oinophila oxystyla (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
  • Opogona chlorophanes Meyrick, 1908
  • Opogona cyrtomis Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853
  • Opogona harpalea Meyrick, 1911
  • Opogona indiscreta (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Opogona iricharis (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Opogona ischnoscia Meyrick, 1928
  • Opogona omiastis Meyrick, 1937
  • Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
  • Opogona phaeochalca Meyrick, 1908
  • Opogona phaeocrana Meyrick, 1914
  • Opogona pyrometalla (Meyrick, 1928)
  • Opogona scaphopis Meyrick, 1909
  • Opogona trophis Meyrick, 1913
  • Organodesma erinacea (Walker, 1863)
  • Oxymachaeris euryzancla Meyrick, 1918
  • Oxymachaeris zulella (Walsingham, 1881)
  • Paraptica concinerata Meyrick, 1917
  • Pelecystola melanchares (Meyrick, 1937)
  • Pelecystola tephrinitis (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Perissomastix adamasta (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Perissomastix caryocephala (Meyrick, 1937)
  • Perissomastix damnificella (Zeller, 1852)
  • Perissomastix dentifera Gozmány & Vári, 1973
  • Perissomastix fulvicoma (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Perissomastix holopsamma (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Perissomastix mascherata Gozmány, 1965
  • Perissomastix meretrix (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Perissomastix nox Gozmány, 1968
  • Perissomastix varii Gozmány, 1967
  • Phaeoses pileigera (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Phyciodyta neritis Meyrick, 1918
  • Pitharcha fasciata (Ghesquière, 1940)
  • Pringleophaga crozetensis Enderlein, 1905
  • Pringleophaga kerguelensis Enderlein, 1905
  • Pringleophaga tetraula (Meyrick, 1926)
  • Propachyarthra convallata (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Proterospastis antiphracta (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Proterospastis barystacta Meyrick, 1937
  • Proterospastis craurota (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Proterospastis homestia (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Proterospastis megaspila (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Proterospastis taeniala (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Proterospastis trilinguis (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Proterospastis zebra (Walsingham, 1891)
  • Prothinodes arvicola Meyrick, 1924
  • Rhodobates paracosma (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
  • Sphallestasis catharinae (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Sphallestasis ectofurca (Gozmány, 1965)
  • Sphallestasis euplocamis (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Sphallestasis hyalodes (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Sphallestasis jansei (Gozmány, 1965)
  • Sphallestasis oenopis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Sphallestasis paramecis (Gozmány, 1969)
  • Sphallestasis paraxena (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Sphallestasis tanystis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Stemagoris axylaea Meyrick, 1911
  • Struthisca agitata Meyrick, 1913
  • Struthisca areata Meyrick, 1908
  • Struthisca hormotris Meyrick, 1908
  • Struthisca omichlodes Meyrick, 1908
  • Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828)
  • Tetracladessa chalcoxesta (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Theatrochora cosmophanes Meyrick, 1921
  • Tinea abactella Walker, 1863
  • Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1857
  • Tinea encausta Meyrick, 1911
  • Tinea nesiastis (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Tinea pentametra Meyrick, 1921
  • Tinea spilocoma Meyrick, 1920
  • Tinea spinizona Gozmány, 1968
  • Tinea squalida Gozmány, 1968
  • Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
  • Tinissa polystacta (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Tiquadra goochii Walsingham, 1881
  • Tiquadra lichenea Walsingham, 1897
  • Tracheloteina arctocephala (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Tracheloteina bilobata Gozmány, 1968
  • Tracheloteina farraginella (Zeller, 1852)
  • Tracheloteina ordinata (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Tracheloteina peloplaca (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Tracheloteina percastis (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Tracheloteina spinipenis Gozmány, 1968
  • Tracheloteina suspiciosa (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Transmixta fortuita (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Trichophaga cuspidata Gozmány, 1967
  • Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Wegneria speciosa (Meyrick, 1914)

Family Tischeriidae

Family Tortricidae

About 240 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Tortricidae)

Family Uraniidae

  • Acropteris illiturata Warren, 1897
  • Dirades theclata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Epiplema anomala Janse, 1932
  • Epiplema asinina Warren, 1905
  • Epiplema illineata Warren, 1899
  • Epiplema inconspicua Janse, 1932
  • Epiplema pulveralis Janse, 1932
  • Epiplema reducta Janse, 1932
  • Epiplema tristis Janse, 1932
  • Heteroplema dependens Warren, 1902
  • Hypoplema fumella Janse, 1932
  • Leucoplema ansorgei (Warren, 1901)
  • Leucoplema dohertyi (Warren, 1904)
  • Leucoplema triumbrata (Warren, 1902)
  • Monoplema fumigera (Warren, 1905)
  • Pseudodirades lactea (Warren, 1897)
  • Urapteritra falcifera (Weymer, 1892)

Family Xyloryctidae

Family Yponomeutidae

  • Abacistis hexanoma Meyrick, 1913
  • Abacistis teligera Meyrick, 1914
  • Acrataula catapachna Meyrick, 1921
  • Amalthina lacteata Meyrick, 1914
  • Argyresthia liparodes Meyrick, 1914
  • Argyresthia pentanoma Meyrick, 1913
  • Argyresthia stilpnota Meyrick, 1913
  • Atteva carteri (Walsingham, 1891)
  • Embryonopsis halticella Eaton, 1875
  • Exaulistis trichogramma Meyrick, 1911
  • Hesperarcha pericentra Meyrick, 1918
  • Morotripta fatigata Meyrick, 1917
  • Palaetheta innocua Meyrick, 1911
  • Palaetheta ischnozona Meyrick, 1909
  • Parazelota dryotoma Meyrick, 1913
  • Parexaula isomima Meyrick, 1909
  • Plexippica verberata Meyrick, 1912
  • Prays citri (Millière, 1873)
  • Prays liophaea Meyrick, 1927
  • Ptiloteina nigricola (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Steganosticha remigera Meyrick, 1921
  • Teinoptila puncticornis (Walsingham, 1891)
  • Trochastica albifrenis Meyrick, 1913
  • Xyrosaris secreta Meyrick, 1912
  • Yponomeuta africanus Stainton, 1860
  • Yponomeuta athyris Meyrick, 1928
  • Yponomeuta fumigatus Zeller, 1852
  • Yponomeuta sistrophora Meyrick, 1909
  • Yponomeuta strigillatus Zeller, 1852
  • Yponomeuta subplumbellus Walsingham, 1881
  • Zygographa asaphochalca Meyrick, 1917

Family Ypsolophidae

Family Zygaenidae

  • Anticrates crocophaea Meyrick, 1921
  • Anticrates electropis Meyrick, 1921
  • Astyloneura glennia (Jordan, 1907)
  • Astyloneura meridionalis (Hampson, 1920)
  • Astyloneura trefurthi Gaede, 1914
  • Coptoproctis languida (Zeller, 1852)
  • Janseola titaea (Druce, 1896)
  • Malamblia durbanica Jordan, 1907
  • Neurosymploca affinis Jordan, 1907
  • Neurosymploca caffra (Linnaeus, 1764)
  • Neurosymploca concinna (Dalman, 1823)
  • Neurosymploca hottentota (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
  • Neurosymploca meterythra Hampson, 1920
  • Neurosymploca pagana Kirby, 1892
  • Orna contraria (Walker, 1854)
  • Orna nebulosa (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Praezygaena agria (Distant, 1892)
  • Praezygaena conjuncta (Hampson, 1920)
  • Praezygaena lateralis (Jordan, 1907)
  • Praezygaena microsticha (Jordan, 1907)
  • Praezygaena myodes (Druce, 1899)
  • Praezygaena ochroptera (Felder, 1874)
  • Saliunca assimilis Jordan, 1907
  • Saliunca homochroa (Holland, 1897)
  • Saliunca meruana Aurivillius, 1910
  • Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Saliuncella marshalli Jordan, 1907
  • Tascia finalis (Walker, 1854)
  • Tascia rhabdophora Vári, 2002
  • Tascia virescens Butler, 1876
  • Zutulba namaqua (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Zutulba ocellaris (Felder, 1874)

See also

References

    • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Search". Afromoths.
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