# List of Lepidoptera of the Azores

An estimated 150 species of Lepidoptera, the order comprising butterflies and moths, have been recorded in the North Atlantic archipelago of the Azores.

## Butterflies
### Lycaenidae

* Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)

### Nymphalidae

* Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hipparchia azorina (Strecker, 1898)
* Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Pieridae

* Colias croceus (Fourcroy, 1785)
* Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)

## Moths
### Argyresthiidae

* Argyresthia atlanticella Rebel, 1940
* Argyresthia minusculella Rebel, 1940

### Autostichidae

* Oegoconia novimundi (Busck, 1915)

### Bedelliidae

* Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

### Blastobasidae

* Blastobasis desertarum (Wollaston, 1858)
* Blastobasis maroccanella Amsel, 1952

### Choreutidae

* Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)

### Coleophoridae

* Coleophora versurella Zeller, 1849

### Cosmopterigidae

* Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875
* Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller, 1847)

### Crambidae

* Diasemiopsis ramburialis (Duponchel, 1834)
* Euchromius ocellea (Haworth, 1811)
* Eudonia interlinealis (Warren, 1905)
* Eudonia luteusalis (Hampson, 1907)
* Eudonia melanographa (Hampson, 1907)
* Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
* Mecyna asinalis (Hübner, 1819)
* Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
* Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
* Scoparia aequipennalis Warren, 1905
* Scoparia carvalhoi Nuss, Karsholt & Meyer, 1998
* Scoparia coecimaculalis Warren, 1905
* Scoparia semiamplalis Warren, 1905
* Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Udea azorensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
* Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

### Epermeniidae

* Epermenia aequidentellus (E. Hofmann, 1867)

### Erebidae

* Eublemma ostrina (Hübner, 1808)
* Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1796)
* Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, 1813)
* Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1773)
* Schrankia costaestrigalis (Stephens, 1834)
* Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
* Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Gelechiidae

* Aproaerema anthyllidella (Hübner, 1813)
* Brachmia infuscatella Rebel, 1940
* Chrysoesthia sexguttella (Thunberg, 1794)
* Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
* Platyedra subcinerea (Haworth, 1828)
* Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

### Geometridae

* Ascotis fortunata (Blachier, 1887)
* Costaconvexa centrostrigaria (Wollaston, 1858)
* Cyclophora azorensis (Prout, 1920)
* Cyclophora puppillaria (Hübner, 1799)
* Eupithecia ogilviata (Warren, 1905)
* Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Haworth, 1809)
* Nycterosea obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
* Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Xanthorhoe inaequata Warren, 1905

### Glyphipterigidae

* Glyphipterix diaphora Walsingham, 1894

### Gracillariidae

* Caloptilia coruscans (Walsingham, 1907)
* Dialectica scalariella (Zeller, 1850)
* Micrurapteryx bistrigella (Rebel, 1940)
* Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
* Phyllonorycter messaniella (Zeller, 1846)

### Nepticulidae

* Stigmella aurella (Fabricius, 1775)

### Noctuidae

* Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
* Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
* Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
* Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
* Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenee, 1852)
* Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Galgula partita Guenee, 1852
* Hadena azorica Meyer & Fibiger, 2002
* Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
* Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
* Melanchra granti Warren, 1905
* Mesapamea storai (Rebel, 1940)
* Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
* Noctua atlantica (Warren, 1905)
* Noctua carvalhoi (Pinker, 1983)
* Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Paranataelia whitei (Rebel, 1906)
* Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
* Phlogophora cabrali Pinker, 1971
* Phlogophora furnasi Pinker, 1971
* Phlogophora interrupta (Warren, 1905)
* Phlogophora kruegeri Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2006
* Phlogophora meticulosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Sesamia nonagrioides Lefebvre, 1827
* Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
* Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
* Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
* Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803)
* Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Plutellidae

* Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Praydidae

* Prays citri (Milliere, 1873)
* Prays oleae (Bernard, 1788)
* Luffia ferchaultella (Stephens, 1850)

### Pterophoridae

* Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
* Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)
* Stenoptilia meyeri Gielis, 1997
* Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)

### Pyralidae

* Aglossa caprealis (Hübner, 1809)
* Apomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839)
* Cadra cautella (Walker, 1863)
* Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
* Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Milliere, 1867)
* Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)
* Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
* Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Homoeosoma miguelensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
* Homoeosoma picoensis Meyer, Nuss & Speidel, 1997
* Phycitodes albatella (Ragonot, 1887)
* Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)
* Pyralis farinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Sphingidae

* Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Stathmopodidae

* Neomariania incertella (Rebel, 1940)
* Neomariania oecophorella (Rebel, 1940)
* Neomariania scriptella (Rebel, 1940)

### Tineidae

* Eudarcia atlantica Henderickx, 1995
* Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
* Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
* Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
* Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)
* Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)
* Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828)
* Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
* Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940
* Trichophaga bipartitella (Ragonot, 1892)
* Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Tortricidae

* Acleris schalleriana (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Acleris variegana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
* Bactra lancealana (Hübner, 1799)
* Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
* Clavigesta sylvestrana (Curtis, 1850)
* Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
* Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Cydia splendana (Hübner, 1799)
* Endothenia oblongana (Haworth, 1811)
* Epiphyas postvittana (Walker, 1863)
* Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916)
* Pandemis heparana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
* Rhopobota naevana (Hübner, 1817)
* Selania leplastriana (Curtis, 1831)