List of Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago

The Chagos Archipelago

Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago consist of both the Butterflies and Moths recorded from the islands of the Chagos Archipelago. The Archipelago consists of five emergent atolls, Diego Garcia, Egmont, the Great Chagos Bank, Peros Banhos and Salomon. There are also several submerged atolls and vast banks and shoals. The whole territory covers 54,400 km2 of the Indian Ocean, of which the archipelago covers about 37,500 km2. The Chagos Archipelago has been British territory since 1814 and was made a dependency of the United Kingdom in 1965.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 63 Lepidoptera species present in the Chagos Archipelago.

Butterflies

Lycaenidae

Nymphalidae

Macro Moths

Arctiidae

Geometridae

Noctuidae

Nolidae

Sphingidae

Micro Moths

Cosmopterigidae

Gelechiidae

Hyblaeidae

Pterophoridae

Pyralidae

Tineidae

Tortricidae

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