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)
Nymphalidae
- Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
- Vanessa braziliensis (Moore, 1883)
- Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Moths
Choreutidae
- Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)
Cosmopterigidae
- Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)
Crambidae
- Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
- Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
- Helenoscoparia helenensis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Helenoscoparia lucidalis (Walker, 1875)
- Helenoscoparia nigritalis (Walker, 1875)
- Helenoscoparia scintillulalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Helenoscoparia transversalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
- Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
- Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
- Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)
- Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
- Udea delineatalis (Walker, 1875)
- Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)
- Udea hageni Viette, 1952
- Uresiphita polygonalis (, 1775)
- Zovax whiteheadii (E. Wollaston, 1879)
Elachistidae
- Elachista trifasciata (E. Wollaston, 1879)
Gelechiidae
- Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
Geometridae
- Chiasmia separata (Druce, 1883)
- Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
- Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Scopula separata (Walker, 1875)
Glyphipterigidae
- Glyphipterix semilunaris E. Wollaston, 1879
Gracillariidae
- Phyllonorycter aurifascia (Walker, 1875)
Hepialidae
- Eudalaca sanctahelena Viette, 1951
Lyonetiidae
- Leucoptera auronivea (Walker, 1875)
Noctuidae
- Acanthodelta janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
- Agrotis costalis Walker, 1857
- Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
- Agrotis pallidula Walker, 1875
- Agrotis segetum (, 1775)
- Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
- Ascalapha odorata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Caradrina atriluna Guenée, 1852
- Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858)
- Chrysodeixis dalei E. Wollaston, 1879
- Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
- Condica circuita (Guenée, 1852)
- Craterestra subvelata (Walker, 1875)
- Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
- Dimorphinoctua cunhaensis Viette, 1952
- Dimorphinoctua goughensis D. S. Fletcher, 1963
- Dimorphinoctua pilifera (Walker, 1857)
- Eudocima apta (Walker, )
- Faronta exoul (Walker, 1856)
- Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1827)
- Helicoverpa helenae Hardwick, 1965
- Hypena helenae Berio, 1972
- Hypena masurialis (Hübner, 1825)
- Hypena obacerralis Walker,
- Hypocala rostrata (Fabricius, 1794)
- Leucania ptyonophora (Hampson, 1905)
- Lycophotia porphyrea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
- Melipotis obliquivia (Hampson, 1926)
- Mocis punctularis (Hübner, 1808)
- Mythimna loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
- Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
- Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
- Peridroma goughi D. S. Fletcher, 1963
- Peridroma saucia (Hübner, )
- Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
- Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
- Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
- Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, )
- Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
- Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)
Oecophoridae
- Agonopterix goughi (Bradley, 1958)
- Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849)
- Schiffermuelleria pictipennis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Schiffermuelleria splendidula (E. Wollaston, 1879)
Plutellidae
- Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pterophoridae
- Agdistis sanctaehelenae (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Hellinsia subnotatus (Walker, 1875)
- Megalorhipida defectalis (Walker, 1864)
- Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)
Pyralidae
- Anagasta kuehniella (Zeller, 1879)
- Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg, 1885)
- Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
- Homoeosoma privata (Walker, 1875)
- Hypargyria metalliferella Ragonot, 1888
- Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854)
- Pyralis farinalis Linnaeus, 1758
- Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854
- Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885
Sphingidae
- Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
- Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tineidae
- Erechthias ascensionae Davis & Mendel, 2013
- Erechthias grayi Davis & Mendel, 2013
- Erechthias minuscula (Walsingham, 1897)
- Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
- Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Opogona actaeon (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona anticella (Walker, 1875)
- Opogona apicalis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona atlantica (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona binotatella (Walker, 1875)
- Opogona brunneomarmorata (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona compositarum (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona congenera (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona divisa (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona fasciculata (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona flavotincta (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona helenae (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona helenaeoides (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona irrorata (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona niveopicta (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
- Opogona recurva (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)
- Opogona scalaris (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Opogona subaeneella (Walker, 1875)
- Opogona ursella (Walker, 1875)
- Opogona vilis (E. Wollaston, 1879)
- Phereoeca allutella (Rebel, 1892)
- Tinea aureomarmorata E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea bicolor E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1857
- Tinea fasciolata E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea flavofimbriata E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea minutissima E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea pellionella Linnaeus, 1758
- Tinea piperata E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea pulveripennis E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea pulverulenta E. Wollaston, 1879
- Tinea subalbidella Stainton, 1867
Tortricidae
- Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
- Lozotaenia capensana (Walker, 1863)
- Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)
Uraniidae
- Chrysiridia prometheus (Drapiez, 1819)
References
- ^ Present on Ascension Island
- ^ Present on the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago
- ^ Present on Saint Helena
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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