List of Lepidoptera of Nauru

The Lepidoptera of Nauru consists of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Nauru, an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific.

Location of Nauru

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of four butterfly species present in Nauru, none of which is endemic. The number of moth species is unknown.

Butterflies

Hesperiidae

• Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

Lycaenidae

• Petrelaea tombugensis (Rober, 1886)

Nymphalidae

• Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Moths

Choreutidae

• Choreutis orthogona (Meyrick, 1886)

Crambidae

• Diaphania indica (Sanders, 1851)
• Glyphodes multilinealis Kenrick, 1907
• Parotis suralis (Lederer, 1863)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius 1775)

Elachistidae

• Ethmia nigroapicella (Saalmüller 1880)

Erebidae

• Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Eublemma anachoresis (Wallgreen, 1863)
• Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Mocis trifasciata (Stephens 1829)

Gelechiidae

• Trissodoris honorariella (Walsingham, 1907)

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller 1873)
• Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius 1794)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker 1864)

Pyralidae

• Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke 1832)

Noctuidae

• ?Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
• Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday 1843)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval 1833)
• Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée 1852

Nolidae

• Westermannia superba (Hübner, 1823)

Sphingidae

• Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)

Tineidae

• Erechthias penicillata (Swezey, 1909)

Tortricidae

• Cryptophlebia ombrodelta (Lower, 1898)

External links

• First Records of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) from the Republic of Nauru
• North, A. J., 1903. Notes on the zoology of Paanopa or Ocean Island and Nauru or Pleasant Island, Gilbert Group. Records of the Australian Museum 5(1): 1–15.; 14 April 1903
• Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of REPUBLIC OF NAURU