List of Lepidoptera of Fiji

Summary

The Lepidoptera of Fiji consist of both butterflies and moths.

Location of Fiji

According to a recent estimate, about 1,000 Lepidoptera species are present on Fiji.

Butterflies edit

Hesperiidae edit

Lycaenidae edit

Nymphalidae edit

Papilionidae edit

Pieridae edit

Moths edit

Aganaidae edit

Agathiphagidae edit

Agonoxenidae edit

Alucitidae edit

Arctiidae edit

Autostichidae edit

Batrachedridae edit

Blastobasidae edit

Carposinidae edit

  • Meridarchis sp. [Dugdale, 1978]
  • Species of an undetermined genus [Dugdale, 1978]

Choreutidae edit

Coleophoridae edit

Copromorphidae edit

Cosmopterygidae edit

Cossidae edit

Crambidae edit

Epermeniidae edit

Epiplemidae edit

  • Epiplema conchiferata Moore, 1887
  • Epiplema cretosa Swinhoe, 1902
  • Epiplema lomalangi Robinson, 1975
  • Epiplema simmondsi Robinson, 1975
  • Europlema semibrunnea (Pagenstecher, 1888)
  • Gathynia albibasis Warren, 1896
  • Phazaca cythera (Swinhoe, 1902)
  • Phazaca nakula Clayton, 2002
  • Phazaca yasawa (Robinson, 1975)


Erebidae edit


Herminiinae edit

Euteliidae edit

  • Anigraea ochrobasis Hampson, 1912
  • Anigraea pectinata Robinson, 1975
  • Paectes fijiensis Robinson, 1975
  • Pataeta carbo (Guenée, 1852)
  • Penicillaria dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852
  • Penicillaria magnifica (Robinson, 1975)
  • Penicillaria meeki Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Penicillaria nugatrix Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852
  • Targalla barbara (Robinson, 1975)
  • Targalla delatrix (Guenée, 1852)
  • Targalla palliatrix (Guenée, 1852)

Stictopterinae edit

  • Gyrtona acutipennis (Robinson, 1975)
  • Gyrtona hopkinsi Tams, 1935
  • Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
  • Gyrtona rotundipennis (Robinson, 1975)
  • Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée, 1852
  • Stictoptera describens (Walker, 1857)
  • Stictoptera obalaui Bethune-Baker, 1916
  • Stictoptera stygia Hampson, 1912
  • Stictoptera vitiensis Hampson, 1912

Gelechiidae edit

Geometridae edit

Glyphipterygidae edit

Gracilariidae edit

Heliodinidae edit

  • Stathmopoda dracaenopa Meyrick, 1933
  • Stathmopoda iocycla Meyrick, 1933
  • Stathmopoda niphocarpa Meyrick, 1937
  • Stathmopoda synchrysa Meyrick, 1923
  • Stathmopoda trichrysa (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Stathmopoda xanthodesma Meyrick, 1931

Hepialidae edit

Hyblaeidae edit

Immidae edit

Limacodidae edit

  • Beggina albifascia Robinson, 1975
  • Beggina bicornis Clayton, 2002
  • Beggina dentilinea Robinson, 1975
  • Beggina mediopunctata Robinson, 1975
  • Beggina minima Robinson, 1975
  • Beggina unicornis Robinson, 1975
  • Beggina zena Robinson, 1975

Lymantriidae edit

Lyonetiidae edit

  • Lyonetia luxurians Meyrick, 1922
  • Lyonetia spinitarsis Meyrick, 1922
  • Phrixosceles fibulatrix Meyrick, 1922
  • Phruriastis meliphaga Meyrick, 1923
  • Pontodryas loxosema Meyrick, 1920
  • Vanicela sp. [Dugdale, 1978]
  • Species of an undetermined genus [Dugdale, 1978]

Nepticulidae edit

  • Stigmella sp. [teste Nieuwkerken & Berg 2003]

Noctuidae edit

Nolidae edit

  • Apothripa vailimaTarns, 1935
  • Austrocarea albipicta (Hampson, 1905)
  • Barasa triangularis Robinson, 1975
  • Blenina vatu Holloway, 1975
  • Blenina lichenopa vatu Robinson, 1975
  • Barasa triangularis Holloway, 1975
  • Calathusa sp. near basicunea Walker
  • Carea albipicta Hampson, 1905,
  • Earias flavida Felder, 1861
  • Earias huegeli Rogenhofer
  • Earias luteolaria Hampson, 1891
  • Earias perhuegelii Holloway, 1977
  • Earias vittella (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Etanna basalis Walker, 1862
  • Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863)
  • Etanna mackwoodi (Hampson, 1902)
  • Etanna vailima (Tams, 1935)
  • Etanna vittalis (Walker, 1866)
  • Gabala australiata Warren, 1916
  • Garella nilotica (Rogenhofer, 1882)
  • Giaura nigrostrigata (Bethune-Baker, 1905)
  • Giaura sokotokai Robinson, 1969
  • Giaura spinosa Robinson, 1975
  • Giaura tetragramma (Hampson, 1905)
  • Maceda savura Robinson, 1968
  • Maceda mansueta Walker, 1857
  • Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1857)
  • Microthripa buxtoni Tams, 1935
  • Mniothripa bradleyi D. S. Fletcher, 1957
  • Nanaguna albisecta Hampson, 1905
  • Nanaguna breviuscula Walker, 1863
  • Nanaguna vittalis (Walker, 1866)
  • Nola fijiensis Robinson, 1975
  • Nola insularum (Collenette, 1928)
  • Nola lichenosa Robinson, 1975
  • Nola samoana Robinson, 1975
  • Nola savura Clayton, 2018
  • Nola transversata Robinson, 1975
  • Nycteola indicatana (Walker, 1863)
  • Xanthodes congenita (Hampson, 1912)
  • Xanthodes intersepta Guenée, 1852

Notodontidae edit

  • Lasioceros aroa vitiensis Robinson, 1975

Oecophoridae edit

Plutellidae edit

Psychidae edit

  • Melasina hemithalama Meyrick, 1935
  • Narycia ennomopis Meyrick, 1934
  • Narycia toxophragma Meyrick, 1937
  • Themeliotis goniozona Meyrick, 1922

Pterophoridae edit

Pyralidae edit

Saturniidae edit

Sphingidae edit

Thyrididae edit

Tineidae edit

Tortricidae edit

Uraniidae edit

  • Urapteroides anerces (Meyrick, 1886)
  • Urapteroides hermaea (Druce, 1888)

Yponomeutidae edit

  • Atteva aleatrix Meyrick, 1922
  • Bedellia somnulentella Zeller, 1847
  • Callithrinca niphopyrrha Meyrick, 1927
  • Caminophantis mystolitha Meyrick, 1933
  • Prays citri Millière, 1873

Zyganeidae edit

References edit

  1. ^ Clayton, 2017. THE GENERA EOOPHYLA SWINHOE AND NYMPHICULA SNELLEN (LEPIDOPTERA: CRAMBIDAE: ACENTROPINAE) IN FIJI, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES
  2. ^ A record of Dactyloplusia impulsa (Walker, 1865) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) new to Fiji
  • Razowski, 2016. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) of the Fiji Islands - Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 59(1)

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