List of Lepidoptera of the Pitcairn Islands
The Lepidoptera of the Pitcairn Islands consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the Pitcairn Islands, consisting of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno.
Butterflies
[edit]Nymphalidae
[edit]- Hypolimnas bolina otaheitae (C Felder, 1862)
Moths
[edit]Arctiidae
[edit]- Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907
Cosmopterigidae
[edit]- Unidentified species
Gelechiidae
[edit]- Stoeberhinus testaceus Butler, 1881
Geometridae
[edit]- Anisodes niveopuncta (Warren, 1897)
- Gymnoscelis concinna Swinhoe, 1902
- Thalassodes pilaria Guenée, 1857
Noctuidae
[edit]- Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
- Anomis sabulifera (Guenée, 1852)
- Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius, 1781)
- Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
- Condica conducta (Walker, [1857])
- Condica illecta (Walker, 1865)
- Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775)
- Targalla delatrix (Guenée, 1852)
- Tiracola plagiata (Walker, 1857)
Pyralidae
[edit]- Endotricha mesenterialis (Walker, 1859)
Sphingidae
[edit]- Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)
- Hippotion hateleyi Holloway, 1990
Tineidae
[edit]- Erechthias species
- Opogona species
References
[edit]- "A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas", by W. John Tennent, Zootaxa 1178: pp. 1–209, (21 April 2006)
- The Lepidoptera of Easter, Pitcairn and Henderson Islands; by J.D. Holloway