The Lepidoptera of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha consist of the butterflies and moths recorded from those places. According to a recent estimate, there are a total of about 120 Lepidoptera species present.
Butterflies
Lycaenidae
- Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)[1]
Nymphalidae
- Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
- Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
- Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)[1]
- Vanessa braziliensis (Moore, 1883)[2]
- Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
Moths
Choreutidae
- Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)[3]
Cosmopterigidae
- Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)[1][3]
Crambidae
- Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)[3]
- Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)[3]
- Helenoscoparia helenensis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Helenoscoparia lucidalis (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Helenoscoparia nigritalis (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Helenoscoparia scintillulalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Helenoscoparia transversalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)[1][3]
- Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)[1]
- Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)[3]
- Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)[3]
- Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)[1][3]
- Udea delineatalis (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)[3]
- Udea hageni Viette, 1952[2][3]
- Uresiphita polygonalis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)[3]
- Zovax whiteheadii (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
Elachistidae
- Elachista trifasciata (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
Gelechiidae
- Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)[1]
Geometridae
- Chiasmia separata (Druce, 1883)[3]
- Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)[2][3]
- Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)[3]
- Scopula separata (Walker, 1875)[3]
Glyphipterigidae
- Glyphipterix semilunaris E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
Gracillariidae
- Phyllonorycter aurifascia (Walker, 1875)[3]
Hepialidae
- Eudalaca sanctahelena Viette, 1951[3]
Lyonetiidae
- Leucoptera auronivea (Walker, 1875)[3]
Noctuidae
- Acanthodelta janata (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
- Achaea catella Guenée, 1852[3]
- Agrotis costalis Walker, 1857[2][3]
- Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)[1][3]
- Agrotis pallidula Walker, 1875[3]
- Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)[1][2][3]
- Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)[1][3]
- Ascalapha odorata (Linnaeus, 1758)[2][3]
- Caradrina atriluna Guenée, 1852[3]
- Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858)[1]
- Chrysodeixis dalei E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)[3]
- Condica circuita (Guenée, 1852)[3]
- Craterestra subvelata (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)[1][3]
- Dimorphinoctua cunhaensis Viette, 1952[2][3]
- Dimorphinoctua goughensis D. S. Fletcher, 1963[2]
- Dimorphinoctua pilifera (Walker, 1857)[2][3]
- Eudocima apta (Walker, [1858])[2]
- Faronta exoul (Walker, 1856)[2][3]
- Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1827)[1]
- Helicoverpa helenae Hardwick, 1965[3]
- Hypena helenae Berio, 1972[3]
- Hypena masurialis (Hübner, 1825)[1]
- Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859][3]
- Hypocala rostrata (Fabricius, 1794)[3]
- Leucania ptyonophora (Hampson, 1905)[3]
- Lycophotia porphyrea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)[2]
- Melipotis obliquivia (Hampson, 1926)[1]
- Mocis punctularis (Hübner, 1808)[2]
- Mythimna loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)[1]
- Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)[3]
- Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)[3]
- Peridroma goughi D. S. Fletcher, 1963[2]
- Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808])[3]
- Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)[3]
- Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)[1]
- Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)[1][3]
- Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])[1][3]
- Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)[1][3]
- Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)[3]
Oecophoridae
- Agonopterix goughi (Bradley, 1958)[2]
- Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)[2][3]
- Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849)[2][3]
- Schiffermuelleria pictipennis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Schiffermuelleria splendidula (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
Plutellidae
- Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)[2][3]
Pterophoridae
- Agdistis sanctaehelenae (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Hellinsia subnotatus (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Megalorhipida defectalis (Walker, 1864)[1]
- Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)[1][3]
Pyralidae
- Anagasta kuehniella (Zeller, 1879)[3]
- Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg, 1885)[1]
- Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879[2]
- Homoeosoma privata (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Hypargyria metalliferella Ragonot, 1888[1]
- Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854)[3]
- Pyralis farinalis Linnaeus, 1758[3]
- Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854[1]
- Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885[1]
Sphingidae
- Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)[1][3]
- Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
- Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)[2]
- Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
Tineidae
- Erechthias ascensionae Davis & Mendel, 2013[1]
- Erechthias grayi Davis & Mendel, 2013[1]
- Erechthias minuscula (Walsingham, 1897)[1]
- Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)[2]
- Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
- Opogona actaeon (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona anticella (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Opogona apicalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona atlantica (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona binotatella (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Opogona brunneomarmorata (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona compositarum (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona congenera (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona divisa (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona fasciculata (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona flavotincta (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona helenae (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona helenaeoides (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona irrorata (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona niveopicta (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)[3]
- Opogona recurva (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)[3]
- Opogona scalaris (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Opogona subaeneella (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Opogona ursella (Walker, 1875)[3]
- Opogona vilis (E. Wollaston, 1879)[3]
- Phereoeca allutella (Rebel, 1892)[1]
- Tinea aureomarmorata E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea bicolor E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1857[3]
- Tinea fasciolata E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea flavofimbriata E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea minutissima E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea pellionella Linnaeus, 1758[3]
- Tinea piperata E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea pulveripennis E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea pulverulenta E. Wollaston, 1879[3]
- Tinea subalbidella Stainton, 1867[1]
Tortricidae
- Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847[1][3]
- Lozotaenia capensana (Walker, 1863)[3]
- Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)[1][3]
Uraniidae
- Chrysiridia prometheus (Drapiez, 1819)[3]
References
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Sources
- Robinson, Gaden S. & Kirke, Charles M.StG. (2007). "Lepidoptera of Ascension Island—a review". Journal of Natural History. 24 (1): 119–135. doi:10.1080/00222939000770081.
- Holdgate, M. W. (October 7, 1965). "The Fauna of the Tristan Da Cunha Islands". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 249 (759): 361–402. doi:10.1098/rstb.1965.0015.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)". Afromoths.
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