List of moths of Brazil

Last updated December 31, 2024

This is a list of moths of Brazil about which we have WP articles, giving the evidence needed for their presence in this list.

List

Adelidae

Ceromitia exalbata Meyrick, 1921
Ceromitia sciographa Meyrick, 1921

Arrhenophanidae

Arrhenophanes volcanica Walsingham (Amazonas)
Arrhenophanes perspicilla (Stoll, 1790)
Cnissostages oleagina Zeller, 1863
Dysoptus argus Davis, 2003 (Para, French Guyana, Venezuela)
Dysoptus avittus Davis, 2003 (Santa Catarina)
Dysoptus chiquitus (Busck, 1914)
Dysoptus denticulatus Davis, 2003
Dysoptus pentalobus Davis, 2003 (Espirito Santo)^[1]

Cecidosidae

Cecidonius pampeanus Moreira & Gonçalves, 2017
Dicranoses congregatella
Oliera argentinana Brèthes, 1917

Depressariidae

Macrocirca moseri Becker, 2023^[2]

Elachistidae

Orthiostola citharoeda Meyrick, 1928
Orthiostola tympanista Meyrick, 1928

Glyphypterigidae

Cotaena mediana Walker, 1864
Cotaena magnifica Sohn & Heppner, 2015
Cotaena tchalla Sohn & Heppner, 2015^[3]

Lyonetiidae

Lyonetia iphigenia Meyrick, 1932
Perileucoptera coffeella (Guérin-Méneville, 1842)

Nolidae

Diphthera festiva (Fabricius, 1775)
Lepidodes pectinata Schaus, 1904
Lepidodes sculpta (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)

Oecophoridae

Capanica triphracta Meyrick, 1922
Percnarcha strategica Meyrick, 1930
Tinaegeria clitarcha Meyrick, 1921
Xestocasis lamprodoxa Meyrick, 1922

Tineidae

(incomplete list)

Acridotarsa nasutitermina (Silvestri, 1944 (?))
Acrolophus chloropelta Meyick, 1923 (from Tefé)
Acrolophus chloropelta Meyrick, 1923
Acrolophus goniocentra Meyrick, 1923
Acrolophus hypophaea Meyrick, 1923
Acrolophus practica Meyrick, 1913
Acrolophus pseudonoma Meyrick, 1922 (from Tefé)
Acrolophus setiacma Meyrick, 1923 (from Manaus)
Antipolistes anthracella Forbes, 1933
Atticonviva melichrosta (Meyrick, 1922)
Axiagasta stactogramma Meyrick, 1930
Basanasca parcens Meyrick, 1922
Barymochtha entherastis Meyrick, 1922 (from Manaus)
Brithyceros dichroanthes Meyrick, 1932
Clinograptis ogmodes Meyrick, 1932
Colpocrita diptila Meyrick, 1930
Compsocrita florens Meyrick, 1922
Crepidochares subtigrina Meyrick, 1922 (from Paratins)
Diataga brasiliensis (Zagulajev, 1966) (Rio Grande do Sul)
Diataga leptosceles Walsingham, 1914
Diataga frustraminis Robinson, 1986^[4]
Dryadaula discatella (Walker, 1864)
Episyrta protonistis Meyrick, 1930
Harmaclona cossidella Busck, 1914
Harmaclona tetracantha Davis, 1998
Harmaclona triacantha Davis, 1998^[5]
Lindera baliopa Meyrick, 1917
Lindera onychias Meyrick, 1931
Lithopsaestis mixophanes Meyrick, 1932
Miniscardia minimella (Busck, 1914) (Panama, French Guyana, Brazil)
Myrmecozela retinens Meyrick, 1919
Mythoplastis chalcochra Meyrick, 1931
Moscardia renitens (Meyrick, 1922)
Opogona rhynchacma Meyrick, 1920
Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)
Pachydyta clitozona Meyrick, 1922 (from Para)
Panthytarcha astrocharis Meyrick, 1922
Pedaliotis dryograpta Meyrick, 1930
Perilicmetis diplaca Meyrick, 1932
Phereoeca uterella (Walsingham, 1897)
Philonome penerivifera Sohn & Davis, 2015
Philonome spectata Meyrick, 1920 (Para)
Polypsecta halmeuta Meyrick, 1930
Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)
Scardia brasiliensis Zeller, 1863
Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
Setiarcha aleuropis Meyrick, 1932
Syncraternis anthestias Meyrick, 1922 (from Paratins)
Syncraternis phaeospila Meyrick, 1922 (from Tefé)
Syrrhoaula lactirivis Meyrick, 1932 (from Manaus)
Tinea eriochrysa Meyrick, 1932 (from Obidos)
Tinea criochrysa Meyrick
Tinea caducella Zeller, 1877
Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
Tiquadra butyranthes Meyrick, 1931
Tiquadra crocidura Meyrick, 1922 (from Santa Catarina).^[6]
Tiquadra drapetica Meyrick, 1919
Tiquadra exercitata Meyrick, 1922 (from Santa Catarina)
Tiquadra galactura Meyrick, 1931
Tiquadra nivosa (Felder, 1875)
Tiquadra reversella Walker, 1866
Tiquadra syntripta Meyrick, 1922
Tiquadra vilis Meyrick, 1922
Trierostola remivola Meyrick, 1932
Xylesthia menidias Meyrick, 1922
Xystrologa lactirivis Meyrick, 1932
Xystrologa sympathetica (Meyrick, 1922) (from Manaus/Tefé)
Zonochares tetradyas Meyrick, 1922

Erechthiinae

Erechthias darwini Robinson, 1983
Erechthias zebrina (Butler, 1881)

Yponomeutidae

Lactura quadrifrenis Meyrick, 1936
Urodus aphrogama Meyrick, 1936
Urodus pamporphyra Meyrick, 1936
Urodus procridias Meyrick, 1936

other families

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[1] Davis, 2003. A Monograph of the Family Arrhenophanidae. (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea)

[2] Becker, 2023. The taxonomic position of the Neotropical genus Macrocirca Meyrick, 1931 with new synonymy and description of one new species(Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Depressariinae. Shilap

[3] Sohn & Heppner, 2015. Two New SPECIES OF Cotaena, WALKER (LEPIDOPTERA:GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE) FROM BRAZIL

[4] Robinson, Fungus moths: a review of the Scardiinae.(Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 52 (2): 37-181

[5] Davis, 1998. World Classification of the Harmaclonmae, a New Subfamily of Tineidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea)

[6] Gates-Clarke. The types of Micro-Lepidoptera described by E. Meyrick, Vol.8; Pl.52

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