Hosta

An estimated 150 species of Lepidoptera, the order comprising butterflies and moths, have been recorded in the North Atlantic archipelago of the Azores.

Butterflies

Lycaenidae

• Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Nymphalidae

• Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hipparchia azorina (Strecker, 1898)
• Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pieridae

• Colias croceus (Fourcroy, 1785)
• Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Moths

Argyresthiidae

• Argyresthia atlanticella Rebel, 1940
• Argyresthia minusculella Rebel, 1940

Autostichidae

• Oegoconia novimundi (Busck, 1915)

Bedelliidae

• Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Blastobasidae

• Blastobasis desertarum (Wollaston, 1858)
• Blastobasis maroccanella Amsel, 1952

Choreutidae

• Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)

Coleophoridae

• Coleophora versurella Zeller, 1849

Cosmopterigidae

• Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875
• Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller, 1847)

Crambidae

• Diasemiopsis ramburialis (Duponchel, 1834)
• Euchromius ocellea (Haworth, 1811)
• Eudonia interlinealis (Warren, 1905)
• Eudonia luteusalis (Hampson, 1907)
• Eudonia melanographa (Hampson, 1907)
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Mecyna asinalis (Hübner, 1819)
• Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
• Scoparia aequipennalis Warren, 1905
• Scoparia carvalhoi Nuss, Karsholt & Meyer, 1998
• Scoparia coecimaculalis Warren, 1905
• Scoparia semiamplalis Warren, 1905
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Udea azorensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

Epermeniidae

• Epermenia aequidentellus (E. Hofmann, 1867)

Erebidae

• Eublemma ostrina (Hübner, 1808)
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, 1813)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1773)
• Schrankia costaestrigalis (Stephens, 1834)
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelechiidae

• Aproaerema anthyllidella (Hübner, 1813)
• Brachmia infuscatella Rebel, 1940
• Chrysoesthia sexguttella (Thunberg, 1794)
• Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
• Platyedra subcinerea (Haworth, 1828)
• Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Geometridae

• Ascotis fortunata (Blachier, 1887)
• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria (Wollaston, 1858)
• Cyclophora azorensis (Prout, 1920)
• Cyclophora puppillaria (Hübner, 1799)
• Eupithecia ogilviata (Warren, 1905)
• Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Haworth, 1809)
• Nycterosea obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Xanthorhoe inaequata Warren, 1905

Glyphipterigidae

• Glyphipterix diaphora Walsingham, 1894

Gracillariidae

• Caloptilia coruscans (Walsingham, 1907)
• Dialectica scalariella (Zeller, 1850)
• Micrurapteryx bistrigella (Rebel, 1940)
• Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
• Phyllonorycter messaniella (Zeller, 1846)

Nepticulidae

• Stigmella aurella (Fabricius, 1775)

Noctuidae

• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenee, 1852)
• Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Galgula partita Guenee, 1852
• Hadena azorica Meyer & Fibiger, 2002
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Melanchra granti Warren, 1905
• Mesapamea storai (Rebel, 1940)
• Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
• Noctua atlantica (Warren, 1905)
• Noctua carvalhoi (Pinker, 1983)
• Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Paranataelia whitei (Rebel, 1906)
• Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
• Phlogophora cabrali Pinker, 1971
• Phlogophora furnasi Pinker, 1971
• Phlogophora interrupta (Warren, 1905)
• Phlogophora kruegeri Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2006
• Phlogophora meticulosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Sesamia nonagrioides Lefebvre, 1827
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803)
• Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Plutellidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Praydidae

• Prays citri (Milliere, 1873)
• Prays oleae (Bernard, 1788)
• Luffia ferchaultella (Stephens, 1850)

Pterophoridae

• Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
• Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilia meyeri Gielis, 1997
• Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)

Pyralidae

• Aglossa caprealis (Hübner, 1809)
• Apomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839)
• Cadra cautella (Walker, 1863)
• Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
• Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Milliere, 1867)
• Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)
• Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
• Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Homoeosoma miguelensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Homoeosoma picoensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
• Phycitodes albatella (Ragonot, 1887)
• Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)
• Pyralis farinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sphingidae

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Stathmopodidae

• Neomariania incertella (Rebel, 1940)
• Neomariania oecophorella (Rebel, 1940)
• Neomariania scriptella (Rebel, 1940)

Tineidae

• Eudarcia atlantica Henderickx, 1995
• Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
• Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
• Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
• Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)
• Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)
• Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828)
• Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
• Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940
• Trichophaga bipartitella (Ragonot, 1892)
• Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tortricidae

• Acleris schalleriana (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Acleris variegana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Bactra lancealana (Hübner, 1799)
• Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
• Clavigesta sylvestrana (Curtis, 1850)
• Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
• Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cydia splendana (Hübner, 1799)
• Endothenia oblongana (Haworth, 1811)
• Epiphyas postvittana (Walker, 1863)
• Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916)
• Pandemis heparana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Rhopobota naevana (Hübner, 1817)
• Selania leplastriana (Curtis, 1831)

External links

• Fauna Europaea
• Checklist of the Noctuidae of Azores