List of moths of Brazil

Last updated November 16, 2025

Adelidae

Ceromitia aphyoda Davis & Medeiros, (Sao Paulo, Parana)
Ceromitia beckeri Davis & Medeiros, 2023 (from Rio de Janeiro)
Ceromitia braziliensis Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia chionocrossa Meyrick, 1921 (Rio Trombetas, Pará)
Ceromitia concava Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia convexa Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia exalbata Meyrick, 1921 (Rio Trombetas, Pará)
Ceromitia fasciata Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia furcata Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia fuscata Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia laticlavia Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia latibasis Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia lobata Davis & Medeiros,2023
Ceromitia nigrifasciata Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia ochrodyta Meyrick, 1921
Ceromitia ovata Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia pallidofascia Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia phaeoceros Meyrick, 1921
Ceromitia sciographa Meyrick, 1921 (from Obidos, Para)
Ceromitia truncata Davis & Medeiros, 2023 (Minas Gerais)
Ceromitia unicornuta Davis & Medeiros, 2023
Ceromitia unipectinella Davis & Medeiros, 2023 (from Sao Paulo)^[1]
Ceromitia eccentra (Meyrick) (from Obidos)

Agonoxenidae

Microcolona transennata Meyrick, 1922
Palaeomystella chalcopeda (Meyrick, 1931)
Palaeomystella fernandesi Becker & Moreira, 2014
Palaeomystella henriettiphila Becker & Adamski, 2008
Palaeomystella oligophaga Becker & Adamski, 2008
Palaeomystella rosaemariae Becker & Moreira, 2014
Palaeomystella tavaresi Becker & Moreira, 2014
Palaeomystella tibouchinae Becker & Adamski, 2008
Pammeces crocoxysta Meyrick, 1922
Prochola agypsota Meyrick, 1922
Prochola basichlora Meyrick, 1922
Prochola catacentra Meyrick, 1922
Prochola chalcothorax Meyrick, 1932
Prochola chloropis Meyrick, 1922
Prochola ochromicta Meyrick, 1922
Prochola orphnopa Meyrick, 1922
Prochola orthobasis Meyrick, 1922
Prochola pervallata Meyrick, 1922
Prochola prasophanes Meyrick, 1922
Prochola semialbata Meyrick, 1922
Prochola subtincta Meyrick, 1922
Zaratha macrocera (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Zaratha pterodactylella Walker, 1864

Alucitidae

Alucita ancalopa (Meyrick, 1922)
Alucita eudactyla (Felder, 1875)
Alucita stephanopis (Meyrick, 1921)
Hexeretmis pontopora Meyrick, 1934
Prymnotomis crypsicroca Meyrick, 1931
Prymnotomis cecidicola Moreira & Becker, 2019

Arrhenophanidae

Arrhenophanes volcanica Walsingham, 1913 (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)^[2]

Attevidae

Atteva cosmogona Meyrick, 1931
Atteva numeratrix Meyrick, 1930
Atteva pustulella (Fabricius, 1787)
Atteva zebrina Becker, 2009 (from Brazil)

Batrachedridae

Batrachedra nuciferae Hodges, 1966
Ifeda perobtusa (Meyrick, 1922)

Carposinidae

Carposina engalactis (Meyrick) (Santa Catarina)

Cecidosidae

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

Choreutidae

Caloreas cydrota (Meyrick, 1915)
Hemerophila albertiana (Cramer, 1781)
Hemerophila arcigera (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Ornarantia biferana (Walker, 1863)
Ornarantia bigerana (Walker, 1863)
Ornarantia canofusana (Walker, 1863)
Ornarantia cinctipes (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Ornarantia contrariana (Walker, 1863)
Ornarantia tristis (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Ornarantia velatana (Walker, 1863)
Tortyra chalcobathra Meyrick, 1922
Tortyra fulgens (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Tortyra spectabilis Walker, 1863
Tortyra violacea (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Zodia chrysosperma (Meyrick, 1931)
Zodia plutusana (Walker, 1863)
Zodia rutilella (Walker, 1863)
Zodia ochripalpis (Meyrick, 1920)

Crambidae

Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius, 1794)
Diptychophora ardalia Landy & Becker, 2021
Diptychophora diasticta Gaskin, 1986
Diptychophora galvani Landy & Becker, 2021
Diptychophora kuhlweinii Zeller, 1866
Diptychophora planaltina Landy & Becker, 2021
Diptychophora subazanalis Błeszyński, 1967^[3]

Cosmopterigidae

Cosmopterix ananke Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)
Cosmopterix beckeri Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix callichalca Meyrick, 1922
Cosmopterix chaldene Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix dapifera Hodges, 1962
Cosmopterix diaphora Walsingham, 1909
Cosmopterix erasmia Meyrick, 1915
Cosmopterix euanthe Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix euporie Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix harpalyke Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix helike Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix hermippe Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix himalia Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix inaugurata Meyrick, 1922
Cosmopterix interfracta Meyrick, 1922
Cosmopterix isotoma Meyrick, 1915
Cosmopterix iocaste Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix isotoma Meyrick, 1915
Cosmopterix lummyae Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix lysithea Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix metis Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix mneme Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix nieukerkeni Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix orthosie Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix pimmaarteni Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix pyrozela Meyrick, 1922
Cosmopterix taygete Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix teligera Meyrick, 1915
Cosmopterix themisto Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix thelxinoe Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix thyone Koster, 2010
Cosmopterix thrasyzela Meyrick, 1915
Metallocrates transformata Meyrick, 1930
Nicanthes rhodoclea Meyrick, 1928
Pebobs isonoe Koster, 2010
Stilbosis sexgutella (Walker, 1864)
Triclonella albicellata (Meyrick, 1931)
Triclonella citrocarpa (Meyrick, 1931)

Depressariidae

Antaeotricha acrograpta (Meyrick, 1915)
Antaeotricha addon (Busck, 1911)
Antaeotricha adjunctella (Walker, 1864)
Antaeotricha aerinotata (Butler, 1877)
Antaeotricha aglypta Meyrick, 1925 (Tefé)
Antaeotricha affinis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
Antaeotricha albifrons Zeller, 1877
Antaeotricha albilimbella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Antaeotricha albitincta (Meyrick, 1930)
Antaeotricha amphilyta Meyrick, 1916
Antaeotricha amphizyga Meyrick, 1930
Antaeotricha aratella (Walker, 1864
Antaeotricha argocorys (Meyrick, 1931)
Antaeotricha basiferella (Walker, 1864)
Antaeotricha basirubrella (Walker, 1864)
Antaeotricha bicolor (Zeller, 1839)
Antaeotricha binubila Zeller, 1854
Antaeotricha bipupillata Meyrick, 1930
Antaeotricha bracatingae (Köhler, 1943)
Antaeotricha carbasea (Meyrick, 1915) (Novo Friburgo)
Antaeotricha cleopatra
Antaeotricha navicularis
Antaeotricha nephelocyma
Antaeotricha neurographa
Antaeotricha nitescens
Antaeotricha nitidorella
Antaeotricha notogramma
Antaeotricha notosaris
Antaeotricha ogmolopha
Antaeotricha orgadopa
Antaeotricha orthophaea
Antaeotricha orthriopa
Antaeotricha pallicosta
Antaeotricha percnocarpa
Antaeotricha phaselodes
Antaeotricha planicoma
Antaeotricha plesistia
Antaeotricha praecisa
Antaeotricha pyrgota
Antaeotricha pyrobathra
Antaeotricha refractrix
Antaeotricha resiliens
Antaeotricha sciospila
Antaeotricha sellifera
Antaeotricha semicinerea
Antaeotricha semisignella
Antaeotricha serarcha
Antaeotricha sterrhomitra
Antaeotricha stringens
Antaeotricha stygeropa
Antaeotricha synercta
Antaeotricha teleosema
Antaeotricha tetrapetra
Antaeotricha tibialis
Antaeotricha tornogramma
Antaeotricha tractrix
Antaeotricha tricapsis
Antaeotricha tripustulella
Antaeotricha trisinuata
Antaeotricha tritogramma
Antaeotricha umbriferella
Antaeotricha unisecta
Antaeotricha xanthopetala
Antaeotricha xuthosaris
Baeonoma mastodes Meyrick, 1916
Hastamea argentidorsella (Busck, 1911)^[4]
Macrocirca moseri Becker, 2023 (southern Brazil)^[5]
Macrocirca strabo (Meyrick, 1931)

Elachistidae

Orthiostola citharoeda Meyrick, 1928
Orthiostola tympanista Meyrick, 1928

Erebidae

Arctiinae

Idalus agastus (Dyar, 1910)

Herminiinae

Dogninades petrae Lödl, 2001 (from Parana)
Simplicia flavipunctulata Dognin, 1914 (from Pará, Sao Paulo)

Hypeninae

Hypena abscisalis Walker, [1859]
Hypena acclinalis Walker, [1859]
Hypena castricalis Schaus, 1904
Hypena degesalis Walker, 1859
Hypena dissutalis Walker, [1866]
Hypena exoletalis Guenée, 1854
Hypena exoticalis Guenée, 1854
Hypena freija Schaus, 1904
Hypena fuscipennis Warren, 1889
Hypena gozama Schaus, 1904
Hypena hemonalis Walker, [1859]
Hypena illapsalis Walker, [1859]
Hypena internalis Guenée, 1854
Hypena lysoalis Walker, 1859
Hypena mactatalis Walker, [1859]
Hypena minualis Guenée, 1854
Hypena munda Warren, 1889
Hypena murina Walker, 1862
Hypena pyralalis Walker, 1862
Hypena securalis Guenée, 1854
Hypena subidalis Guenée, 1854
Hypena turalis Schaus, 1904
Hypena veltalis Schaus, 1904

Gelechiidae

Anthistarcha binocularis Meyrick, 1929 (from Bahia)
Battaristis emissurella
Beltheca phosphoropa (Meyrick 1922) (from Para)
Calliprora centrocrossa Meyrick, 1922 (Amazonas)
Calliprora clistogramma Meyrick, 1926 (Sao Paulo)
Calliprora peritura Meyrick, 1922 (Para)
Calliprora platyxipha Meyrick, 1922 (Para)
Calliprora rhodogramma Meyrick, 1922 (Amazonas)
Commatica cyanorrhoa Meyrick, 1914
Compsolechia abruptella (Walker, 1864)
Compsolechia aequilibris Meyrick, 1931
Compsolechia amazonica Meyrick, 1918
Compsolechia ambusta (Walsingham, 1910)
Deltophora lanceella Sattler, 1979^[6]
Deltophora minuta Sattler, 1979
Dichomeris famulata Meyrick, 1914
Gelechia bathrochlora Meyrick, 1932
Gelechia delapsa Meyrick, 1931
Gelechia diacmota Meyrick, 1932
Gelechia picrogramma Meyrick, 1929 (Amazonas)
Gelechia suspensa Meyrick, 1923 (Amazonas)
Gelechia traducella Busck, 1914
Nealyda accincta Meyrick, 1923
Nealyda leucozostra Meyrick, 1923
Ophiolechia allomorpha Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia arida Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia contrasta Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia divisa Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia marginata Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia ophiomima Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia semiochrea Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia spinifera Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia stulta Sattler, 1996
Ophiolechia triangula Sattler, 1996^[7]
Pectinophora gossypiella
Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917)
Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)
Stegasta bosqueella (Chambers, 1875)

Geometridae

Amplidasys crebraria Guenée, 1857
Nipteria incoloraria Guenée, 1857
Meticulodes odonaria (Oberthur)
Neuromelia festiva (Cramer)
Pantherodes pardalaria Hübner, 1823
Atyria dicroides Prout

Glyphypterigidae

Antispastis clarkei Pastrana, 1951^[8]
Antispastis selectella (Walker, 1863)
Cotaena mediana Walker, 1864
Cotaena magnifica Sohn & Heppner, 2015
Cotaena tchalla Sohn & Heppner, 2015^[9]
Sagalassa valida Walker, 1856^[10]

Gracillariidae

Phylloncnistis citrella (Stainton)

Heliodinidae

Capanica lamprolitha Meyrick, 1917

Limacodidae

Sibine nesta
Euprosterna elaeasa

Lyonetiidae

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

Momphidae / Agonoxenidae

Palaeomystella henriettiphila Becker & Adamski, 2008
Palaeomystella oligophaga Becker & Adamski, 2008^[11]
Palaeomystella tibouchinae Becker & Adamski, 2008
Pammeces crocoxysta Meyrick, 1922
Prochola chloropis Meyrick, 1922
Prochola obstructa Meyrick, 1915
Prochola orphnopa Meyrick, 1922
Prochola orthobasis Meyrick, 1922
Prochola prasophanes Meyrick, 1922
Prochola ochromicta Meyrick, 1922
Prochola pervallata Meyrick, 1922
Prochola semialbata Meyrick, 1922
Prochola chalcothorax Meyrick, 1932
Prochola subtincta (Meyrick, 1922)

Noctuidae

Acontiinae

Acontia decisa Walker, [1858]
Acontia micropis (Druce, 1909)
Acontia quadrata Walker, 1866
Acontia ruffinellii (Biezanko, 1959) (Rio Grande do Sul)
Acontia venita (Schaus, 1904)

Noctuinae

Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith, 1797)

Nolidae

Diphthera festiva (Fabricius, 1775)
Iscadia acronyctoides (Schaus, 1915)
Iscadia duckinfieldia Schaus, 1906 (from Sao Paulo)
Iscadia montei Costa Lima, 1936 (from Minas Gerais)
Iscadia poliopepla Hampson, 1905 (from Rio de Janeiro)
Gyrtonides albifascia Hampson, 1912 (from Amazon)
Gyrtonides fritzi Schaus, 1934 (from Santa Catarina)
Lepidodes pectinata Schaus, 1904
Lepidodes sculpta (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
Motya abseuzalis Walker, 1859
Neostictoptera amplipennis (Hampson, 1912)
Neostictoptera stroca (Schaus, 1906)
Nola panthera
Pardasena miochroa (Hampson, 1905)

Oecophoridae

Capanica triphracta Meyrick, 1922
Cerconota anonella Sepp, 1830
Coptotelia bipunctalis (Warren) ^[13]
Ectaga garcia Becker, 1994
Endrosis braziliensis Moore, 1883 (Sao Paulo)
Gonionota argopleura Gates, 1971
Gonionota autocrena (Meyrick, 1930)
Gonionota bourquini Clarke 1964
Gonionota captans (Meyrick,1931)
Gonionota citronota (Meyrick) 1932
Gonionota charagma Gates, 1971
Gonionota gaiophanes Gates, 1971
Gonionota hemiglypta Gates, 1971
Gonionota isodryas (Meyrick 1921)
Gonionota lecithitis (Meyrick) 1912
Gonionota praeclivis (Meyrick) 1921,
Gonionota selene Gates, 1971
Gonionota transversa Gates, 1971
Inga ancorata (Walsingham, 1912)
Inga corystes
Inga encamina
Inga fervida Zeller, 1855
Inga haemataula
Inga phaeocrossa
Peleopoda cannescens (Clarke)^[14]
Percnarcha strategica Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma abductella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma acontiella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma adulans Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma albida (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma alligans (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma ancillaris Meyrick, 1916
Stenoma annosa (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma aphrophanes Meyrick, 1929
Stenoma aplytopis Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma armata (Zeller, 1877)
Stenoma auricoma Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma bathyntis Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma biannulata Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma bryocosma Meyrick, 1916
Stenoma byssina (Zeller, 1855)
Stenoma caesarea Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma camptospila Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma cana (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Stenoma catenifer Walsingham, 1912
Stenoma cathosiota Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma chionogramma (Meyrick, 1909)
Stenoma chloroloba Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma chloroxantha Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma chromatopa Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma codicata Meyrick, 1916
Stenoma commutata (Meyrick, 1926) (from Manaus)
Stenoma completella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma coniophaea Meyrick, 1930 (Tapertinha, Para)
Stenoma consociella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma conveniens Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma convexicostata (Zeller, 1877)
Stenoma crypsastra Meyrick, 1915 (from Manaus)
Stenoma curtipennis (Butler, 1877) (from Rio Purus)
Stenoma cycnographa Meyrick, 1930 (from Taperinha, Para)
Stenoma decora (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma deltomis Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma dilinopa Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma dryaula Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma dryocosma Meyrick, 1918
Stenoma enumerata Meyrick, 1932
Stenoma epipacta Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma eusticta Meyrick, 1916
Stenoma evanescens (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma exempta Meyrick, 1925 (from Para)
Stenoma explicita Meyrick, 1930 (from Para)
Stenoma fallax (Butler, 1877) (Rio Negro)
Stenoma farraria Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma ferrocanella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma flavicosta (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Stenoma fusistrigella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma grandaeva (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma gymnastis Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma harpoceros Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma hemiphanta Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma hesmarcha (Meyrick, 1930) (from Taperinha, Para)
Stenoma hopfferi (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma hoplitica Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma horocharis Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma horocyma Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma hospitalis Meyrick, 1915 (from Rio de Janeiro)
Stenoma hyalocryptis Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma hypocirrha Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma icteropis Meyrick, 1925 (from Santarém)
Stenoma immunda (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma inflata (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma invulgata Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma irascens Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma lapilella (Busck, 1914)
Stenoma latitans (Dognin, 1905) (from Sao Paulo)
Stenoma leptogma Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma lucidiorella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma macraulax Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma melanixa Meyrick, 1912
Stenoma meligrapta Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma melinopa Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma oblita (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma obovata Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma ochrothicata Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma orneopis Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma orthographa Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma ortholampra Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma oxyschista Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma pantogenes Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma paraplecta Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma patellifera Meyrick, 193
Stenoma peccans (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma peridesma Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma picrantis Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma perjecta Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma picta (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma plagosa (Zeller, 1877)
Stenoma procritica Meyrick, 1925 (Tefé, Amazonas)
Stenoma promotella (Zeller, 1877) (from Santarém)
Stenoma psalmographa Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma pustulatella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma receptella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma relata Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma residuella (Zeller, 1877)
Stenoma rhothiodes Meyrick, 1915 (from Sao Paulo)
Stenoma rosa (Busck, 1911)
Stenoma salome Busck, 1911 (from Sao Paulo)
Stenoma salubris Meyrick, 1925 (from Tefé, Amazonas)
Stenoma satelles Meyrick, 1925 (from Tefé, Amazonas)
Stenoma sciogama Meyrick, 1930 (from Bahia)
Stenoma scitiorella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma scoliandra Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma sequestra Meyrick, 1918
Stenoma sericata (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma sesquitertia (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma sommerella (Zeller, 1877)
Stenoma spodinopis Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma stabilis (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma staudingerana (Maassen, 1890)
Stenoma straminella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma strigivenata (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma surinamella (Möschler, 1883)
Stenoma syngraphopis Meyrick, 1930
Stenoma trilineata (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma trirecta Meyrick, 1931
Stenoma tristrigata (Zeller, 1854)
Stenoma ulosema Meyrick, 1930 (Rio de Janeiro)
Stenoma umbrinervis Meyrick, 1930 (from Para)
Stenoma uncticoma Meyrick, 1916
Stenoma unguentata Meyrick, 1930 (from Para)
Stenoma vaga (Butler, 1877)
Stenoma vinifera Meyrick, 1915
Stenoma vita (Busck, 1911)
Stenoma vitreola Meyrick, 1925
Stenoma xanthophaeella (Walker, 1864)
Stenoma ybyrajubu Becker, 1971
Stenoma zephyritis Meyrick, 1925
Timocratica albitogata Becker, 1982^[15]
Timocratica agramma Becker, 1982
Timocratica anelaea (Meyrick, 1932)
Timocratica argonais (Meyrick, 1932)
Timocratica bicornuta Becker, 1982
Timocratica grandis (Perty, 1833)
Timocratica leucorectis (Meyrick, 1925)
Timocratica major (Busck, 1909)
Timocratica melanocosta Becker, 1982
Timocratica melanostriga Becker, 1982
Timocratica meridionalis Becker, 1982
Timocratica monotonia (Strand, 1911)
Timocratica nivea Becker, 1982
Timocratica palpalis (Zeller, 1877)
Timocratica parvileuca Becker, 1982
Timocratica subovalis (Meyrick, 1932)
Timocratica venifurcata Becker, 1982
Tinaegeria clitarcha Meyrick, 1921
Xestocasis lamprodoxa Meyrick, 1922

Pyralidae

Phycitinae

Ancylostomia stercorea Zeller, 1848^[16]
Atheloca bondari (Heinrich 1956)
Atheloca subrufella Hülst, 1887
Cadra cautella (Walker, 1864)
Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
Ephestia elutella
Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller, 1848)
Hypsipyla grandella (Zeller, 1848)
Neopyralis ronnai Brethes, 1920
Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1827
Zophodia goyensis Ragonot

Gallerinae

Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)

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
Archinemapogon erasella (Zeller, 1863)
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^[17]
Dryadaula discatella (Walker, 1864)
Episyrta protonistis Meyrick, 1930
Harmaclona cossidella Busck, 1914
Harmaclona tetracantha Davis, 1998
Harmaclona triacantha Davis, 1998^[18]
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
Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851
Tiquadra avitella Walker, 1866
Tiquadra butyranthes Meyrick, 1931
Tiquadra crocidura Meyrick, 1922 (from Santa Catarina).^[19]
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)

Tortricidae

Apotoforma epacticta Razowski & Becker, 1984 (Mato Grosso)
Apotoforma viridans Razowski & Becker, 2003 (from Rondonia)
Epinotia aporema (Walsingham, 1914)
Episimus mahaiana (Felder & Rogenhofer)
Eulia excerptana Walker 1864
Tortrix auriferana Busck, 1911
Tortrix parana Busck, 1911

Yponomeutidae

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

other families

References

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↑ Landry, Bernard & Becker, Vitor O. (2007). "A taxonomic review of the genus Diptychophora Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sensu lato, Crambinae) in Brazil, with descriptions of three new species". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 128 (1): 73–84.
↑ Busck, August (1911). "Descriptions of Tineoid Moths (Microlepidopera) from South America". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 40 (1815): 205–230.
↑ Becker, Vitor O. (December 2023). "The taxonomic position of the Neotropical genus Macrocirca Meyrick, 1931 with new synonymy and description of one new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Depressariinae". )". SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología. 51 (204): 635-639.
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