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Location 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.

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

Family Adelidae

Family Alucitidae

Family Anomoeotidae

Family Arctiidae

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

Family Autostichidae

Family Batrachedridae

Family Bedelliidae

Family Bombycidae

Family Brachodidae

Family Brahmaeidae

Family Bucculatricidae

Family Carposinidae

Family Cecidosidae

Family Choreutidae

Family Coleophoridae

Family Copromorphidae

Family Cosmopterigidae

Family Cossidae

Family Crambidae

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

Family Drepanidae

Family Dudgeoneidae

Family Elachistidae

Family Epermeniidae

Family Epipyropidae

Family Eriocottidae

Family Eupterotidae

Jana eurymas

Family Gelechiidae

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

Family Geometridae

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

Family Glyphipterigidae

Family Gracillariidae

Family Heliozelidae

Family Hepialidae

Gorgopis libania

Family Himantopteridae

Family Hyblaeidae

Family Immidae

Family Incurvariidae

Family Lacturidae

Family Lasiocampidae

Trichopisthia igneotincta

Family Lecithoceridae

Family Lemoniidae

Family Limacodidae

Family Lymantriidae

Bracharoa quadripunctata

Family Lyonetiidae

Family Metarbelidae

Family Micropterigidae

Family Nepticulidae

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

Family Noctuidae

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

Family Nolidae

Family Notodontidae

Family Oecophoridae

Family Opostegidae

Family Plutellidae

Family Prodoxidae

Family Prototheoridae

Family Psychidae

Family Pterophoridae

Family Pyralidae

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

Family Saturniidae

Family Sematuridae

Family Sesiidae

Family Somabrachyidae

Family Sphingidae

Pseudoclanis postica

Family Thyrididae

Family Tineidae

Family Tischeriidae

Family Tortricidae

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

Family Uraniidae

Family Xyloryctidae

Family Yponomeutidae

Family Ypsolophidae

Family Zygaenidae

See also

References

External links

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