The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal Lepidoptera found worldwide, except the Southeast Asian subfamily Ratardinae, which is mostly active during the day.
Cossus cossus, the goat moth, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Northern Africa, Asia and Europe.
Phragmataecia castaneae, the reed leopard or giant borer, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1790. It is found in central and southern Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, north-western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Lebanon, Turkey, western China, south-western Siberia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Acossus centerensis, the poplar carpenterworm, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in North America from New Jersey west to Illinois and North Dakota. In Canada it is found from Quebec and Ontario west to British Columbia.
Acossus populi, the aspen carpenterworm, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in the United States in Nevada, Colorado, California and in the northern Rocky Mountains. In Canada it is found in Ontario and British Columbia.
Mormogystia proleuca is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, including southern Saudi Arabia, southern Oman (Dhofar) and Yemen.
Azygophleps asylas is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found from central to southern Africa, including Namibia and South Africa.
Dyspessa ulula, the garlic mottled, is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found from central and southern Europe through Russia to central Asia. It is also found in Syria, Iran, Iraq and parts of North Africa.
Dyspessa salicicola is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1848. It is found in Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.
Acossus is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Acossus undosus is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in the United States, including Wyoming, Utah and possibly surrounding states.
Acossus viktor is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Russia, in southern Siberia and the southern part of the Tuva Republic.
Fania connectus is a species of moth of the family Cossidae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1916. It is found in Texas in the United States.
Parahypopta radoti is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in France.
Stygioides colchica is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Bulgaria, Greece, the southern part of European Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon and Israel.
Catopta albonubilus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1888. It is found from Kyrgyzstan through Central Asia to Myanmar, Korea, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korea and north-eastern China.
The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Metarbelidae was first described by Embrik Strand in 1909.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Duomitus is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, Duomitus ceramicus, described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in Yunnan in China and from southern India and Malaysia to Sumatra, Ceram and New Guinea.
