List of Lepidoptera of Midway Atoll

The Lepidoptera of Midway Atoll consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the islands of Midway Atoll. Midway Atoll is part of a chain of volcanic islands, atolls, and seamounts extending from Hawai'i up to the tip of the Aleutian Islands.

Midway

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Location of Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 36 Lepidoptera species present on the Midway Atoll.

Butterflies

Nymphalidae

• Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Moths

Arctiidae

• Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907

Cosmopterigidae

• Asymphorodes dimorpha (Busck, 1914)
• Undescribed Asymphorodes species
• Hyposmocoma neckerensis (Swezey, 1926)
• Hyposmocoma rubescens Walsingham, 1907
• Pyroderces rileyi (Walsingham, 1882)

Crambidae

• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Geometridae

• Cyclophora nanaria (Walker, 1861)
• Macaria abydata Guenee, 1857

Gracilariidae

• Stoeberhinus testaceus Butler, 1881

Noctuidae

• Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrotis fasciata (Rothschild, 1894)
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1767)
• Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
• Helicoverpa zea (Boddie, 1850)
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1858
• Leucania loreyimima Rungs, 1953
• Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1856)
• Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)

Plutellidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pterophoridae

• Lioptilodes parvus (Walsingham, 1880)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1793)

Pyralidae

• Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854

Sphingidae

• Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Deilephila nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tineidae

• Erechthias simulans (Butler, 1882)
• Monopis meliorella (Walker, 1863)
• Opogona aurisquamosa (Butler, 1881)

Tortricidae

• Amorbia emigratella Busck, 1910
• Undescribed Bactra sp. nr. Bactra straminea (Butler, 1881)
• Crocidosema blackburni (Butler, 1881)

External links

• A Review of the Insects and Related Arthropods of Midway Atoll