List of moths of South Africa

• Acrolepia canachopis Meyrick, 1913 • Acrolepia chalarodesma Meyrick, 1927 • Acrolepia gelida Meyrick, 1921 • Acrolepia trapezopa Meyrick, 1914 • Acrolepia xylophragma (Meyrick, 1926) ==Family Adelidae==

• Adela cuneella Walsingham, 1891 • Adela droseropa Meyrick, 1921 • Adela electella (Walker, 1863) • Adela natalensis Stainton, 1860 • Ceromitia albosparsa Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia alternipunctella (Walsingham, 1881) • Ceromitia amphichroa Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia arata Meyrick, 1920 • Ceromitia benedicta Meyrick, 1918 • Ceromitia bipartita (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia bipectinifera Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia brevilobata (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia centrologa Meyrick, 1937 • Ceromitia cerochlora Meyrick, 1921 • Ceromitia crinigerella (Zeller, 1850) • Ceromitia decepta Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia delta Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia descripta Meyrick, 1924 • Ceromitia devia (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia dicksoni (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia durbanica (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia elongatella (Walsingham, 1881) • Ceromitia fuscipunctella (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia geminata Meyrick, 1914 • Ceromitia gigantea Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia graptosema Meyrick, 1914 • Ceromitia grisata (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia heteroloba (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia holosticta Meyrick, 1918 • Ceromitia impura (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia indigna (Meyrick, 1912) • Ceromitia intermedia (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia laureata Meyrick, 1911 • Ceromitia libropis Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia melanodesma Meyrick, 1914 • Ceromitia melanostrota Meyrick, 1912 • Ceromitia mellicoma Meyrick, 1912 • Ceromitia mioclina Meyrick, 1921 • Ceromitia mitrata Meyrick, 1917 • Ceromitia monopectinifera Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia multipunctata Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia nerina Meyrick, 1912 • Ceromitia ochrotricha Meyrick, 1912 • Ceromitia palyntis Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia phaeocomoides Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia phyrsima Meyrick, 1911 • Ceromitia praetexta Meyrick, 1924 • Ceromitia punctulata Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia resonans Meyrick, 1918 • Ceromitia simpliciella (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia spatalodes Meyrick, 1920 • Ceromitia spilodesma Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia sporaea Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia stathmodes Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia synchroma (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia transtrifera Meyrick, 1912 • Ceromitia trigoniferella (Walsingham, 1881) • Ceromitia trilobata (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia turpisella (Walker, 1863) • Ceromitia tyrochlora Meyrick, 1908 • Ceromitia unguiphora (Janse, 1945) • Ceromitia vansoni Janse, 1945 • Ceromitia wahlbergi Zeller, 1852 • Ceromitia xanthosoma Meyrick, 1917 ==Family Alucitidae==

• Alucita acalyptra (Meyrick, 1913) • Alucita brachyzona (Meyrick, 1920) • Alucita butleri Wallengren, 1875 • Alucita capensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 • Alucita certifica (Meyrick, 1909) • Alucita crococyma (Meyrick, 1937) • Alucita ferruginea Walsingham, 1881 • Alucita habrophila (Meyrick, 1920) • Alucita ithycypha (Meyrick, 1927) • Alucita libraria (Meyrick, 1911) • Alucita ochriprota (Hering, 1917) • Alucita phanerarcha (Meyrick, 1924) • Alucita photaula (Meyrick, 1918) • Alucita spicifera (Meyrick, 1911) • Alucita tesserata (Meyrick, 1918) • Microschismus antennatus T. B. Fletcher, 1909 • Microschismus cymatias Meyrick, 1918 • Microschismus fortis (Walsingham, 1881) • Microschismus premnias Meyrick, 1913 • Microschismus reginus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011 • Microschismus sceletias Meyrick, 1911 • Microschismus sterkfontein Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011 ==Family Anomoeotidae==

• Anomoeotes levis Felder, 1888 • Anomoeotes nigrivenosus Butler, 1893 • Dianeura goochii Butler, 1888 ==Family Arctiidae==

About 239 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae) ==Family Autostichidae==

• Diophila bathrota (Meyrick, 1911) • Hesperesta rhyodes (Meyrick, 1909) • Holcopogon tucki Vives Moreno, 1999 • Oegoconia meledantis (Meyrick, 1921) • Oegoconia syndesma Meyrick, 1926 • Pachnistis craniota (Meyrick, 1913) • Procometis acharma Meyrick, 1908 • Procometis limitata Meyrick, 1911 • Procometis milvina Meyrick, 1914 • Procometis ochricilia Meyrick, 1921 • Procometis oxypora Meyrick, 1908 • Procometis terrena Meyrick, 1908 • Symmoca crocodesma Meyrick, 1911 ==Family Batrachedridae==

• Batrachedra epombra Meyrick, 1914 • Batrachedra granosa Meyrick, 1911 • Batrachedra heliota Meyrick, 1913 • Batrachedra isochtha Meyrick, 1914 • Batrachedra microbias Meyrick, 1914 • Batrachedra oemias Meyrick, 1909 • Batrachedra phaneropa Meyrick, 1914 • Batrachedra saurota Meyrick, 1911 • Batrachedra stegodyphobia Walsingham, 1903 • Enscepastra lathraea Meyrick, 1920 • Enscepastra longirostris Meyrick, 1926 • Enscepastra plagiopa Meyrick, 1920 • Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881 ==Family Bedelliidae==

• Bedellia cathareuta Meyrick, 1911 • Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847) ==Family Bombycidae==

• Bombyx mori (Linnaeus, 1758) • Ocinara ficicola (Westwood & Ormerod, 1889) • Racinoa ianthe (Druce, 1887) • Racinoa pallicornis Strand, 1910 • Racinoa signicosta Strand, 1910 ==Family Brachodidae==

• Atractoceros albiciliata (Walsingham, 1891) • Atractoceros xanthoprocta (Meyrick, 1914) • Brachodes infandus (Meyrick, 1920) • Brachodes metaspilus (Meyrick, 1926) • Brachodes nycteropis (Meyrick, 1920) • Brachodes quiris (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) • Nigilgia albitogata (Walsingham, 1891) • Nigilgia eucallynta (Meyrick, 1937) • Nigilgia pseliota (Meyrick, 1920) • Phycodes punctata Walsingham, 1891 ==Family Brahmaeidae==

• Dactyloceras widenmanni (Karsch, 1895) • Spiramiopsis comma Hampson, 1901 ==Family Bucculatricidae==

• Bucculatrix agilis Meyrick, 1920 • Bucculatrix amara Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix anticolona Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix dulcis Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix edocta Meyrick, 1921 • Bucculatrix facilis Meyrick, 1911 • Bucculatrix galeodes Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix inchoata Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix lenis Meyrick, 1913 • Bucculatrix melipecta Meyrick, 1914 • Bucculatrix monelpis Meyrick, 1928 • Bucculatrix ochromeris Meyrick, 1928 • Bucculatrix porthmisa Meyrick, 1908 • Bucculatrix praecipua Meyrick, 1918 • Bucculatrix quieta Meyrick, 1913 • Leucoedemia ingens (Scoble & Scholtz, 1984) ==Family Carposinidae==

• Carposina autologa Meyrick, 1910 • Carposina brachycentra Meyrick, 1914 • Carposina conobathra Meyrick, 1928 • Carposina exsanguis Meyrick, 1918 • Carposina impavida Meyrick, 1913 • Carposina irata Meyrick, 1914 • Carposina proconsularis Meyrick, 1921 • Carposina siturga Meyrick, 1912 • Carposina socors Meyrick, 1928 • Carposina subselliata Meyrick, 1921 • Carposina thermurga Meyrick, 1929 ==Family Cecidosidae==

• Scyrotis athleta Meyrick, 1909 • Scyrotis granosa (Meyrick, 1912) • Scyrotis kochi Mey, 2007 • Scyrotis pulleni Mey, 2007 • Scyrotis trivialis (Meyrick, 1913) ==Family Choreutidae==

• Brenthia leucatoma Meyrick, 1918 • Brenthia virginalis Meyrick, 1912 • Choreutis aegyptiaca (Zeller, 1867) • Choreutis entechna (Meyrick, 1920) • Choreutis gratiosa (Meyrick, 1911) • Choreutis plectodes (Meyrick, 1921) • Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857) ==Family Coleophoridae==

• Anathyrsa macroxyla Meyrick, 1920 • Augasma nidifica Meyrick, 1912 • Blastobasis byrsodepta Meyrick, 1913 • Blastobasis determinata Meyrick, 1921 • Blastobasis egens Meyrick, 1918 • Blastobasis fatigata Meyrick, 1914 • Blastobasis industria Meyrick, 1913 • Blastobasis millicentae Adamski, 2010 • Blastobasis taricheuta Meyrick, 1909 • Calosima arguta (Meyrick, 1918) • Coleophora acmura Meyrick, 1914 • Coleophora aphanombra Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora diffusa Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora efflua Meyrick, 1911 • Coleophora eremodes Meyrick, 1912 • Coleophora halmodes Meyrick, 1911 • Coleophora illustrata Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora intensa Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora leucaula Meyrick, 1911 • Coleophora megaloptila Meyrick, 1909 • Coleophora niphocrossa Meyrick, 1920 • Coleophora ordinaria Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora orphnoceros Meyrick, 1937 • Coleophora oxyphaea Meyrick, 1913 • Coleophora presbytica Meyrick, 1921 • Coleophora scaleuta Meyrick, 1911 • Coleophora scariphota Meyrick, 1911 • Coleophora terenaula Meyrick, 1927 • Coleophora textoria Meyrick, 1921 • Coleophora triflua Meyrick, 1911 • Holcocera extensa (Meyrick, 1918) • Holcocera irroratella (Walsingham, 1891) ==Family Copromorphidae==

• Copromorpha aeruginea Meyrick, 1917 • Rhynchoferella syncentra (Meyrick, 1916) ==Family Cosmopterigidae==

• Alloclita paraphracta Meyrick, 1914 • Alloclita xylodesma Meyrick, 1911 • Allotalanta clonomicta Meyrick, 1927 • Anatrachyntis rileyi (Walsingham, 1882) • Anatrachyntis tripola (Meyrick, 1909) • Ascalenia albitergis Meyrick, 1926 • Ascalenia melanogastra (Meyrick, 1918) • Ascalenia nudicornis (Meyrick, 1913) • Ascalenia pulverata (Meyrick, 1913) • Ascalenia staurocentra (Meyrick, 1915) • Axiarcha discosema Meyrick, 1921 • Chalcocolona cyananthes (Meyrick, 1911) • Cnemidolophus lavernellus Walsingham, 1881 • Cosmopterix ancistraea Meyrick, 1913 • Cosmopterix antichorda Meyrick, 1909 • Cosmopterix bactrophora Meyrick, 1908 • Cosmopterix callinympha Meyrick, 1913 • Cosmopterix circe Meyrick, 1921 • Cosmopterix cleophanes Meyrick, 1937 • Cosmopterix cognita Walsingham, 1891 • Cosmopterix diplozona Meyrick, 1921 • Cosmopterix emmolybda Meyrick, 1914 • Cosmopterix macroglossa Meyrick, 1913 • Cosmopterix oxyglossa Meyrick, 1909 • Cosmopterix scaligera Meyrick, 1909 • Cosmopterix tabellaria Meyrick, 1908 • Cosmopterix tetrophthalma Meyrick, 1921 • Dorodoca eometalla Meyrick, 1926 • Erechthiodes audax Meyrick, 1914 • Eteobalea pentagama Meyrick, 1928 • Eteobalea phanoptila Meyrick, 1911 • Eteobalea quinquecristata (Walsingham, 1891) • Gibeauxiella genitrix (Meyrick, 1927) • Gisilia antidesma (Meyrick, 1913) • Gisilia cardinata (Meyrick, 1918) • Gisilia conformata (Meyrick, 1921) • Gisilia sclerodes (Meyrick, 1909) • Gisilia stagnans (Meyrick, 1921) • Hyalochna allevata Meyrick, 1918 • Ischnobathra balanobola Meyrick, 1937 • Ischnobathra dormiens Meyrick, 1937 • Labdia caulota Meyrick, 1918 • Labdia diophanes Meyrick, 1927 • Limnaecia chlorodeta Meyrick, 1928 • Limnaecia chloronephes Meyrick, 1924 • Limnaecia effulgens Meyrick, 1918 • Limnaecia eretmota Meyrick, 1909 • Limnaecia ichnographa Meyrick, 1908 • Limnaecia neurogramma Meyrick, 1909 • Limnaecia recidiva Meyrick, 1911 • Limnaecia semisecta Meyrick, 1928 • Macrobathra anisodora Meyrick, 1924 • Macrobathra recrepans Meyrick, 1926 • Melanozestis heterodesma Meyrick, 1930 • Parathystas porphyrantha Meyrick, 1913 • Pycnagorastis tanyopa Meyrick, 1937 • Pyroderces narcota (Meyrick, 1909) • Stagmatophora basanistis Meyrick, 1909 • Stagmatophora phalacra Meyrick, 1909 • Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913 • Stagmatophora trimitra Meyrick, 1913 • Stilbosis antibathra (Meyrick, 1914) • Streptothyris tanyacta Meyrick, 1918 ==Family Cossidae==

• Aethalopteryx forsteri (Clench, 1959) • Aethalopteryx pindarus (Fawcett, 1916) • Aethalopteryx squameus (Distant, 1902) • Aethalopteryx tristis (Gaede, 1915) • Alophonotus rauanus (Strand, 1909) • Arctiocossus antargyreus Felder, 1874 • Arctiocossus danieli Clench, 1959 • Arctiocossus impeditus (Walker, 1865) • Arctiocossus ligatus (Walker, 1865) • Arctiocossus tessellatus Clench, 1959 • Azygophleps asylas (Cramer, 1777) • Azygophleps atrifasciata Hampson, 1910 • Azygophleps cooksoni Pinhey, 1968 • Azygophleps inclusa (Walker, 1856) • Azygophleps leopardina Distant, 1902 • Azygophleps pusilla (Walker, 1856) • Brachylia eutelia Clench, 1959 • Brachylia incanescens (Butler, 1875) • Brachylia terebroides Felder, 1874 • Coryphodema albifasciata Hampson, 1910 • Coryphodema tristis (Drury, 1782) • Cossus seineri Grünberg, 1910 • Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder, 1874 • Macrocossus coelebs Clench, 1959 • Macrocossus toluminus (Druce, 1887) • Nomima cyanoscia (Meyrick, 1918) • Nomima subnigrata (Meyrick, 1917) • Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1913 • Pecticossus castaneus Gaede, 1929 • Phragmataecia andarana Clench, 1959 • Phragmataecia boisduvalii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854) • Phragmataecia innominata Dalla Torre, 1923 • Phragmataecia irrorata Hampson, 1910 • Phragmataecia okovangae Clench, 1959 • Pseudurgis leucosema Meyrick, 1914 • Pseudurgis nephelicta Meyrick, 1913 • Pseudurgis ochrolychna Meyrick, 1914 • Pseudurgis poliastis (Meyrick, 1937) • Pseudurgis polychorda Meyrick, 1913 • Pseudurgis protracta Meyrick, 1924 • Pseudurgis sciocolona Meyrick, 1914 • Pseudurgis scutifera Meyrick, 1912 • Pseudurgis tectonica Meyrick, 1908 • Pseudurgis undulata (Meyrick, 1911) • Rethona strigosa Walker, 1855 • Strigocossus capensis (Walker, 1856) • Strigocossus ochricosta (T. B. Fletcher, 1968) • Xyleutes dictyotephra Clench, 1959 • Xyleutes sjoestedti (Aurivillius, 1900) • Xyleutes vosseleri Gaede, 1929 • Zeuzera coffeae Nietner, 1861 • Zeuzera sponda Wallengren, 1875 ==Family Crambidae==

About 407 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae) ==Family Drepanidae==