List of Lepidoptera of the Pitcairn Islands
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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