Australian biota list
Australian moths represent between 20,000 and 30,000 different types of moths.[1] In comparison, there are only 400 species of Australian butterflies . The moths (mostly nocturnal ) and butterflies (mostly diurnal ) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera . Scientifically, these moths are organised into about 80 families ,[2] but the status of some is controversial and several recent changes have been suggested.[1]
This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Australia . The list covers the continent of Australia and Tasmania and includes islands close to the mainland.
This page provides a link to detailed lists of these moths by family . If a family is endemic to Australia, the link redirects to a description of the family itself.
Families Adelidae Didymoctenia exsuperata Agathiphagidae Agonoxenidae Alucitidae Anomosetidae Anthelidae Arctiidae Argyresthiidae (mostly treated as a subfamily of Yponomeutidae )Arrhenophanidae Batrachedridae Blastobasidae Blastodacnidae (sometimes included in Agonoxenidae )Bombycidae Brachodidae Bucculatricidae Carposinidae Carthaeidae Castniidae Choreutidae Coleophoridae Copromorphidae Cosmopterigidae Cossidae Cyclotornidae Depressariidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae )Drepanidae Douglasiidae Dudgeoneidae Elachistidae Epermeniidae Epipyropidae Erebidae Eriocottidae Pholodes sinistraria Ethmiidae Eupterotidae Galacticidae Gelechiidae Geometridae Glyphipterigidae Gracillariidae Heliocosma group Heliodinidae Heliozelidae Hepialidae Herminiidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Noctuidae )Hyblaeidae Hypertrophidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae )Immidae Incurvariidae Lacturidae Lasiocampidae Lecithoceridae Limacodidae Macrobathra chrysotoxa Lophocoronidae Lymantriidae Lyonetiidae Macropiratidae Micronoctuidae Only few Australian species are known: Duplex horakae Fibiger, 2010 , Duplex edwardsi Fibiger, 2010 , Duplex pullata Fibiger, 2010 , Duplex cockingi Fibiger, 2010 and Flax kalliesi Fibiger, 2011 . Records for Tolpia conscitulana Walker, 1863 and Tolpia myops Hampson, 1907 , formerly included in Noctuidae , are based on misidentifications. Micropterigidae Momphidae Only an unnamed Zapyrastra species is known. Nepticulidae Noctuidae (including Aganaidae and Nolidae )Notodontidae Oecophoridae Oenosandridae Opostegidae Palaeosetidae Palaephatidae Plutellidae Symmetrischema tangolias Psychidae Pterophoridae Pyralidae (including Crambidae )Roeslerstammiidae Saturniidae Scythrididae Sesiidae Simaethistidae Sphingidae Symmocidae Only one Australian species is known: Nemotyla oribates Nielsen, McQuillan & Common, 1992 Thyrididae Tineidae Tineodidae Tortricidae Uraniidae Yponomeutidae Zygaenidae
See also
Notes and references ^ a b Zborowski, Paul; Edwards, Ted (2007). A Guide To Australian Moths. CSIRO Publishing. p. 224. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory". Retrieved 1 June 2010 .
Further reading Common, I.F.B. (1990). Moths of Australia. Csiro. ISBN 9780643102712 . Retrieved 6 December 2014 .
External links Australian Moths Online CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lepidoptera of Australia .