List of moths of South Africa

The moths of South Africa represent about 7,000 known moth species. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Location of South Africa

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in South Africa. Because of the large number of species from South Africa, some families are listed on separate pages.

Family Acrolepiidae edit

Family Adelidae edit

Family Alucitidae edit

Family Anomoeotidae edit

Family Arctiidae edit

About 239 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae)

Family Autostichidae edit

Family Batrachedridae edit

Family Bedelliidae edit

Family Bombycidae edit

Family Brachodidae edit

Family Brahmaeidae edit

Family Bucculatricidae edit

Family Carposinidae edit

Family Cecidosidae edit

Family Choreutidae edit

Family Coleophoridae edit

Family Copromorphidae edit

Family Cosmopterigidae edit

Family Cossidae edit

Family Crambidae edit

About 407 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)

Family Drepanidae edit

Family Dudgeoneidae edit

Family Elachistidae edit

Family Epermeniidae edit

Family Epipyropidae edit

Family Eriocottidae edit

Family Eupterotidae edit

 
Jana eurymas

Family Gelechiidae edit

About 502 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Gelechiidae)

Family Geometridae edit

About 976 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Geometridae)

Family Glyphipterigidae edit

Family Gracillariidae edit

Family Heliozelidae edit

Family Hepialidae edit

 
Gorgopis libania

Family Himantopteridae edit

Family Hyblaeidae edit

Family Immidae edit

Family Incurvariidae edit

Family Lacturidae edit

Family Lasiocampidae edit

 
Trichopisthia igneotincta

Family Lecithoceridae edit

Family Lemoniidae edit

Family Limacodidae edit

Family Lymantriidae edit

 
Bracharoa quadripunctata

Family Lyonetiidae edit

Family Metarbelidae edit

Family Micropterigidae edit

Family Nepticulidae edit

About 118 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Nepticulidae)

Family Noctuidae edit

About 1,323 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Noctuidae)

Family Nolidae edit

Family Notodontidae edit

Family Oecophoridae edit

Family Opostegidae edit

Family Plutellidae edit

Family Prodoxidae edit

Family Prototheoridae edit

Family Psychidae edit

Family Pterophoridae edit

Family Pyralidae edit

About 506 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Pyralidae)

Family Saturniidae edit

Family Sematuridae edit

Family Sesiidae edit

Family Somabrachyidae edit

Family Sphingidae edit

 
Pseudoclanis postica

Family Thyrididae edit

Family Tineidae edit

Family Tischeriidae edit

Family Tortricidae edit

About 240 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Tortricidae)

Family Uraniidae edit

Family Xyloryctidae edit

Family Yponomeutidae edit

Family Ypsolophidae edit

Family Zygaenidae edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit

  • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Search". Afromoths.