List of Lepidoptera of Easter Island

The Lepidoptera of Easter Island consist of the butterflies and moths recorded from Easter Island.

Location of Easter Island

Butterflies

Nymphalidae

• Hypolimnas bolina otaheitae (C. Felder, 1862)
• Vanessa carye (Hübner, 1812)

Moths

Cosmopterigidae

• Asymphorodes trichogramma (J.F.G. Clarke, 1986)

Gelechiidae

• Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Geometridae

• Gymnoscelis concinna (Swinhoe, 1902)

Noctuidae

• Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
• Ctenoplusia albostriata (Bremer & Grey, 1853)

Pterophoridae

• Stenoptilia species

Pyralidae

• Ephestia cautella (Walker, 1863)
• Hymenia recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Tineidae

• Opogona aurisquamosa (Butler, 1881)

Tortricidae

• Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847)

Yponomeutidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• W. John Tennent: "A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas". Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 April 2006)
• J.D. Holloway "The Lepidoptera of Easter, Pitcairn, and Henderson Islands" Journal of Natural History June 1990 24(3):719-729 doi:10.1080/00222939000770501