List of moths of Sri Lanka

Location of Sri Lanka

Moths are Lepidopterans that classified together with their beautiful partners, the butterflies. The two types are easily recognized by first sight with a good naked eye. The main differences are as follows.

Feature Butterflies Moths
Shape and structure of antennae thin slender filamentous antennae which are club-shaped at the end. comb-like or feathery antennae, or filamentous and unclubbed.
Wing-coupling mechanisms lack a frenulum. have a frenulum which is a filament arising from the hindwing and coupling (matching up) with barbs on the forewing. The frenulum can be observed only when a specimen is in hand. Some moths have a lobe on the forewing called a jugum that helps in coupling with the hindwing.
Pupae form an exposed pupa, also termed a chrysalis. moth caterpillars spin a cocoon made of silk within which they metamorphose into the pupal stage.
Colouration of the wings bright colours on their wings. usually plain brown, grey, white or black and often with obscuring patterns of zigzags or swirls.
Activity diurnal. nocturnal and crepuscular.
Structure of the body have slender and smoother abdomens. have stout and hairy or furry-looking bodies.
Scales ossess fine scales. larger scales on their wings which makes them look more dense and fluffy.
Appearance of Eyes apposition eyes. superposition eyes.
Resting posture fold their wings above their backs when they are perched. rest with their wings spread out to their sides.

Within Sri Lanka, the latest revision of lepidopterans described 1903 species with 58 families of butterflies and moths. Out of these 1903 species, 208 species are butterflies and 1695 species are moths.

The following is an incomplete list of the moths of Sri Lanka.

Aganaidae

Eupterote sp.

Attevidae

Autostichidae

Batrachedridae

Amata cysseus

Brachodidae

Carposinidae

Choreutidae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

Acentropinae

Micronia aculeata

Crambinae

Speiredonia sp.

Cybalomiinae

Epipaschiinae

Evergestinae

Musotiminae

Noordinae

Odontiinae

Pyraustiinae

Schoenobiinae

Scopariinae

Spilomelinae

Speiredonia sp.

Drepanidae

Dudgeonidae

  • Dudgeonea leucosticta Hampson, 1900

Elachistidae

Epipyropidae

Erebidae

Arctiinae

Amata passalis

Boletobobiinae

  • Acontia crocata (Guenée, 1852)
  • Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
  • Amyna natalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Araeopteron goniophora Hampson, 1907
  • Araeopteron griseata Hampson, 1907
  • Aereopteron nivalis Hampson,1907
  • Araeopteron pictale Hampson, 1893
  • Aereopteron poliaphaea (Hampson,1910)
  • Araeopteron proleuca Hampson, 1907
  • Araeopteron rufescens (Hampson, 1910)
  • Araeopteron xanthopis (Hampson, 1907)
  • Arenarba destituta (Moore, 1884)
  • Autoba brachygonia (Hampson, 1910)
  • Cerynea contentaria (Walker, 1861)
  • Cerynea ustula (Hampson, 1898)
  • Eublemma anachoresis (Wallengren,1863)
  • Eublemma baccalix (Swinhoe,1886)
  • Eublemma scitulum (Rambur,i833)
  • Hiccoda dosaroides Moore, 1882

Calpinae

Erebinae

Herminiinae

  • Progonia kurosawai Owada, 1987
  • Progonia olieusalis (Walker, 1859)
Haritalodes derogata

Hypeninae

Lymantriinae

  • Artaxa comparata (Walker, 1865)
  • Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848)
  • Lymantria ampla (Walker, 1855)
  • Lymantria costalis Walker, 1865
  • Lymantria fuliginosa Moore, 1883
  • Lymantria grandis (Walker, 1855)
  • Lymantria nussi Schintlmeister, 2004
  • Lymantria subrosea Swinhoe, 1903

Ethmiidae

Eupterotidae

Gelechiidae

Polynesia sunandava

Geometridae

  • Bosara emarginaria (Hampson, 1893)
  • Cyclothea disjuncta Walker, 1861
  • Ectropis bhurmitra (Walker, 1860)
  • Eucrostes disparata Walker, 1861
  • Hyposidra talaca (Walker, 1860)
  • Isturgia pulinda (Walker, 1860)
  • Nadagara vigaia Walker, 1862
  • Ozola minor (Moore, 1888)
  • Ophthalmitis herbidaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Ophthalmitis sinensium (Oberthür, 1913)
  • Ozola microniaria Walker, 1862
  • Ozola minor (Moore, 1888)
  • Perixera anulifera (Hampson, 1893)
  • Polynesia sunandava (Walker, 1861)
  • Ruttellerona cessaria (Walker, 1860)
  • Scopula addictaria (Walker, 1861)
  • Scopula aspilataria (Walker, 1861)

Glyphipterigidae

Gracillariidae

Hepialidae

Immidae

  • Imma albofascia (Felder, 1861)
  • Imma accuralis (Walker, [1859])
  • Imma chlorosphena Meyrick, 1906
  • Imma ergasia (Meyrick, 1905)
  • Imma grammarcha (Meyrick, 1905)
  • Imma hyphantis Meyrick, 1906
  • Imma lithosioides (Moore, 1887)
  • Imma mackwoodi (Moore, 1887)
  • Imma mylias Meyrick, 1906
  • Imma psoricopa Meyrick, 1906
  • Imma rugosalis Walker, [1859]
  • Imma semicitra Meyrick, 1937
  • Moca velutina Walker, 1863

Lacturidae

Polydesma boarmoides
  • Anticrates chrysantha Mehrick, 1905
  • Pyrozela xanthomima Meyrick, 1906

Lasiocampidae

  • Chilena strigula Walker, 1865
  • Euthrix laeta (Walker, 1855)
  • Gastropacha pardale (Walker, 1855)
  • Kunungia latipennis (Walker, 1855)
  • Metanastria hyrtaca (Cramer, 1779)
  • Odonestis ceylonica Tams, 1935
  • Odonestis bheroba Moore, 1859
  • Odonestis vita Moore, 1859
  • Orienthrix sulphurea (Moore, 1879)
  • Streblote dorsalis (Wakr, 1866)
  • Streblote igniflua (Moore, 1883)
  • Suana concolor (Walker, 1855)
  • Trabala vishnou (Lefèbvre, 1827)

Lecithoceridae

Creatonotos gangis

Lyonetiidae

Momphidae

Nepticulidae

Noctuidae

Acontiinae

  • Corgatha ruficepts (Walker, 1864)
  • Corgatha trichogyia Hampson, 1907
  • Enispa elataria (Walker, 1861)
  • Lophoruza lunifera (Moore; 1885)
  • Zurobata vacillans (Walker, 1864)

Euteliinae

Artaxa sp.
  • Anigraea cinctipalpis (Walker, 1865)
  • Anuga constricta Guenée,1852
  • Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858)
  • Chlumetia transversa (Walker,1863)
  • Eutelia favillatrioides Poole, 1989 (repl.)
  • Eutelia favillatrix (Guenée, 1852)
  • Eutelia geyeri (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
  • Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858
  • Penicillaria nugatrix Guenée, 1852
  • Targalla bifacies (Walker, 1858)
  • Targalla ludatrix (Walker, 1858)
  • Targalla repleta (Walker, 1865)

Hadeninae

Nolidae

  • Barasa aconyctoides Walker, 1862
  • Blenina accipiens Walker, [1858]
  • Blenina chlorophila Hampson, 1905
  • Blenina donans Walker, 1857
  • Carea angulata (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
  • Labanda herbealis Walker, 1859
  • Labanda semipars (Walker, 1858)
  • Manoba major Hampson, 1891
  • Meganola brunellus (Hampson, 1893)
  • Nanaguna breviuscula Walker, 1863
  • Nola analis (Wileman & West,1928)
  • Nola cingalesa Moore, 1882
  • Nola dentilinea (Hampson, 1909)
  • Nola fuscibasalis (Bethune-Baker,1904)
  • Nola leucoscopula (Hampson, 1907)
  • Nola lucidalis Walker, 1864
  • Nola mesotherma Hampson, 1909
  • Nola rufa (Hampson, 1900)
  • Nola rufimixta (Hampson, 1909)
  • Nola streptographia (Hampson, 1900)
  • Nola squalida Staudinger,1871
  • Nola tumulifera Hampson, 1893
  • Nycteola indica (Felder, 1874)
  • Nycteola poliophaea (Hampson, 1907)
  • Panacrama dulcissima (Walker, 1864)
  • Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881
  • Risoba prominens Moore, 1881
  • Selepa discigera (Walker, [1863])
  • Selepa plumbeata Hampson, 1912
Ophthalmitis herbidaria

Oecophoridae

Stathmopodinae

  • Hieromantis fibulata Meyrick, 1906
  • Hieromantis ioxysta Meyrick, 1913
  • Oedematopoda cypris Meyrick, 1905
  • Pachyrhabda bacterias Meyrick, 1913
  • Pachyrhabda dicastis (Meyrick, 1905)
  • Pachyrhabda tumida Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda amphoritis Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda anconias Meyrick, 1910
  • Stathmopoda antidelta Meyrick, 1907
  • Stathmopoda aprica Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda aristata Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
  • Stathmopoda butyracma Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda cissota Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda diplaspis (Meyrick, 1887)
  • Stathmopoda hexatyla Meyrick, 1907
  • Stathmopoda iners Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda isoleuca Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda masinissa Meyrick, 1906
  • Stathmopoda neomeris Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda ochrodelta Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda ovigera Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda porphyrantha Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda spilozona Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda stimulata Meyrick, 1913
  • Stathmopoda triloba Meyrick, 1913
  • Thylacosceles cerata Meyrick, 1913
  • Thylacosceles judex Meyrick, 1913

Plutellidae

  • Plutella sera Meyrick, 1886

Pterophoridae

Theretra nessus

Pyralidae

Epipaschiinae

Gallerinae

Phycitinae

Pyralinae

Saturniidae

  • Actias selene Paukstadt & Paukstadt, 1999 - ssp. taprobanis
  • Antheraea cingalesa (Moore, 1883)
  • Attacus taprobanis (Moore, 1883)
  • Cricula ceylonica (Jordan, 1909)

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

  • Addaea trimeronalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Banisia lobata (Moore, 1882)
  • Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Calindoea argentalis (Walker, 1866)
  • Dixoa albatalis (Swinhoe, 1889)
  • Dysodia ignita (Walker, 1858)
  • Dysodia viridatrix (Walker, 1858)
  • Hypolamprus angulalis (Moore, 1888)
  • Hypolamprus lepaota Hampson, 1910
  • Hypolamprus striatalis (Swinhoe, 1885)
  • Hypolampus subrosealis (Leech, 1898)
  • Obelura dohertyi (Warren, 1897)
  • Pharambara splendida Butler, 1887
  • Rhodoneura argentalis (Walker, 1865)
  • Rhodoneura bastialis (Walker, 1865)
  • Rhodoneura discopis Hampson, 1910
  • Rhodoneura disparalis Hammpson, 1910
  • Rhodoneura micacealis (Walker, 1865)
  • Rhodoneura loceusalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Rhodoneura myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Rhodoneura nitens (Butler, 1887)
  • Striglina glareola (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Striglina scitaria (Walker, 1862)

Tineidea

  • Edosa opsigona (Meyrick, 1911)
  • Erechthias simulans (Butler, 1882)
  • Erechthias transfumata (Meyrick, 1915)
  • Erechthias zebrina (Butler, 1881)
  • Ippa inceptrix (Meyrick, 1916)
  • Ippa polyscia (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Ippa recitatella (Walker, 1864)
  • Ippa taxiarcha (Meyrick, 1916)
  • Opogona flavofasciata (Stainton, 1859)
  • Opogona fumiceps Felder, 1875
  • Tineovertex melliflua (Meyrick, 1911)

Tortricidae

Uraniidae

  • Acropteris ciniferaria (Walker, 1866)
  • Dysaethria fulvihamata (Hampson, 19i2)
  • Dysaethria quadricaudata (Walker,1861)
  • Dysaethria rhagavata (Walker)
  • Dysaethria scopocera (Hampson, 1896)
  • Epiplema albida Hampson
  • Epiplema conflictaria Walker, 1861
  • Epiplema instabilata Walker, 1866
  • Epiplema irrorata Moore, 1887
  • Epiplema latifasciata Moore,1887
  • Epiplema obscuraria Moore,1887
  • Epiplema rhagavata Walker, 1861
  • Europlema conchiferata (Moore, 1887)
  • Gathynia miraria Walker, [1863]
  • Micronia aculeata Guenée,[1858]
  • Monobolodes prunaria (Moore, 1887)
  • Monobolodes parvinigrata Holloway,1998
  • Oroplema simplex (Warren, 1899)
  • Phazaca erosioides Walker, 1863
  • Phazaca leucocera (Hampson, 1891)
  • Phazaca theclata (Guenée, 1857)
  • Pseudomicronia caelata Moore, 1887
  • Pseudomicronia fraterna Moore
  • Strophidia caudata (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Urapteroides astheniata (Guenée,[1858])

Urodidae

  • Geoesthia ceylonica Jae-Cheon Sohn, 2014

Zygaenidae

  • Callizygaena albipuncta (Hampson, 1900)
  • Callizygaena auratus (Cramer, [1779])
  • Cerodendra quadripunctata (Hampson, 1892)
  • Chalcosia pretiosa Walker, 1854
  • Cyclosia midama (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
  • Cyclosia panthona (Stoll, 1780)
  • Eterusia aedea (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Procotes diminuta (Walker, 1854)
  • Thyrassia subcordata (Walker, 1854)
  • Thyrassia virescens (Hampson, 1892)
  • Trypanophora taprobanes Walker, 1854

See also

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