List of Lepidoptera of the Azores

An estimated 150 species of Lepidoptera, the order comprising butterflies and moths, have been recorded in the North Atlantic archipelago of the Azores.

Location of Azores

Butterflies

Lycaenidae

• Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Nymphalidae

• Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hipparchia azorina (Strecker, 1898)
• Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pieridae

• Colias croceus (Fourcroy, 1785)
• Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Moths

Argyresthiidae

• Argyresthia atlanticella Rebel, 1940
• Argyresthia minusculella Rebel, 1940

Autostichidae

• Oegoconia novimundi (Busck, 1915)

Bedelliidae

• Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Blastobasidae

• Blastobasis desertarum (Wollaston, 1858)
• Blastobasis maroccanella Amsel, 1952

Choreutidae

• Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)

Coleophoridae

• Coleophora versurella Zeller, 1849

Cosmopterigidae

• Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875
• Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller, 1847)

Crambidae

• Diasemiopsis ramburialis (Duponchel, 1834)
• Euchromius ocellea (Haworth, 1811)
• Eudonia interlinealis (Warren, 1905)
• Eudonia luteusalis (Hampson, 1907)
• Eudonia melanographa (Hampson, 1907)
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Mecyna asinalis (Hübner, 1819)
• Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
• Scoparia aequipennalis Warren, 1905
• Scoparia carvalhoi Nuss, Karsholt & Meyer, 1998
• Scoparia coecimaculalis Warren, 1905
• Scoparia semiamplalis Warren, 1905
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Udea azorensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

Epermeniidae

• Epermenia aequidentellus (E. Hofmann, 1867)

Erebidae

• Eublemma ostrina (Hübner, 1808)
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, 1813)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1773)
• Schrankia costaestrigalis (Stephens, 1834)
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelechiidae

• Aproaerema anthyllidella (Hübner, 1813)
• Brachmia infuscatella Rebel, 1940
• Chrysoesthia sexguttella (Thunberg, 1794)
• Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
• Platyedra subcinerea (Haworth, 1828)
• Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Geometridae

• Ascotis fortunata (Blachier, 1887)
• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria (Wollaston, 1858)
• Cyclophora azorensis (Prout, 1920)
• Cyclophora puppillaria (Hübner, 1799)
• Eupithecia ogilviata (Warren, 1905)
• Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Haworth, 1809)
• Nycterosea obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Xanthorhoe inaequata Warren, 1905

Glyphipterigidae

• Glyphipterix diaphora Walsingham, 1894

Gracillariidae

• Caloptilia coruscans (Walsingham, 1907)
• Dialectica scalariella (Zeller, 1850)
• Micrurapteryx bistrigella (Rebel, 1940)
• Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
• Phyllonorycter messaniella (Zeller, 1846)

Nepticulidae

• Stigmella aurella (Fabricius, 1775)

Noctuidae

• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenee, 1852)
• Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Galgula partita Guenee, 1852
• Hadena azorica Meyer & Fibiger, 2002
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Melanchra granti Warren, 1905
• Mesapamea storai (Rebel, 1940)
• Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
• Noctua atlantica (Warren, 1905)
• Noctua carvalhoi (Pinker, 1983)
• Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Paranataelia whitei (Rebel, 1906)
• Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
• Phlogophora cabrali Pinker, 1971
• Phlogophora furnasi Pinker, 1971
• Phlogophora interrupta (Warren, 1905)
• Phlogophora kruegeri Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2006
• Phlogophora meticulosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Sesamia nonagrioides Lefebvre, 1827
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803)
• Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Plutellidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Praydidae

• Prays citri (Milliere, 1873)
• Prays oleae (Bernard, 1788)
• Luffia ferchaultella (Stephens, 1850)

Pterophoridae

• Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
• Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilia meyeri Gielis, 1997
• Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)

Pyralidae

• Aglossa caprealis (Hübner, 1809)
• Apomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839)
• Cadra cautella (Walker, 1863)
• Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
• Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Milliere, 1867)
• Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)
• Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
• Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Homoeosoma miguelensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Homoeosoma picoensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Phycitodes albatella (Ragonot, 1887)
• Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)
• Pyralis farinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sphingidae

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Stathmopodidae

• Neomariania incertella (Rebel, 1940)
• Neomariania oecophorella (Rebel, 1940)
• Neomariania scriptella (Rebel, 1940)

Tineidae

• Eudarcia atlantica Henderickx, 1995
• Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
• Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
• Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
• Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)
• Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)
• Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828)
• Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
• Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940
• Trichophaga bipartitella (Ragonot, 1892)
• Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tortricidae

• Acleris schalleriana (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Acleris variegana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Bactra lancealana (Hübner, 1799)
• Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
• Clavigesta sylvestrana (Curtis, 1850)
• Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
• Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cydia splendana (Hübner, 1799)
• Endothenia oblongana (Haworth, 1811)
• Epiphyas postvittana (Walker, 1863)
• Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916)
• Pandemis heparana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Rhopobota naevana (Hübner, 1817)
• Selania leplastriana (Curtis, 1831)

External links

• Fauna Europaea
• Checklist of the Noctuidae of Azores