List of Lepidoptera of Nauru
The Lepidoptera of Nauru consists of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Nauru, an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific.
According to a recent estimate, there are a total of four butterfly species present in Nauru, none of which is endemic. The number of moth species is unknown.
Butterflies[edit]
Hesperiidae[edit]
- Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)
Lycaenidae[edit]
- Petrelaea tombugensis (Rober, 1886)
Nymphalidae[edit]
- Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Moths[edit]
Choreutidae[edit]
- Choreutis orthogona (Meyrick, 1886)
Crambidae[edit]
- Diaphania indica (Sanders, 1851)
- Glyphodes multilinealis Kenrick, 1907
- Parotis suralis (Lederer, 1863)
- Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius 1775)
Elachistidae[edit]
- Ethmia nigroapicella (Saalmüller 1880)
Erebidae[edit]
- Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius, 1781)
- Eublemma anachoresis (Wallgreen, 1863)
- Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
- Mocis trifasciata (Stephens 1829)
Gelechiidae[edit]
- Trissodoris honorariella (Walsingham, 1907)
Pterophoridae[edit]
- Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller 1873)
- Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius 1794)
- Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker 1864)
Pyralidae[edit]
- Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke 1832)
Noctuidae[edit]
- ?Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
- Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday 1843)
- Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval 1833)
- Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée 1852
Nolidae[edit]
- Westermannia superba (Hübner, 1823)
Sphingidae[edit]
- Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)
Tineidae[edit]
- Erechthias penicillata (Swezey, 1909)
Tortricidae[edit]
- Cryptophlebia ombrodelta (Lower, 1898)