page_title: List of moths of Australia
section_title: Families
hierarchical_section_title: List of moths of Australia / Families
caption_attribution_description: English: Thallarcha albicollis (R. Felder &amp; Rogenhofer, 1875), to MV light, Aranda, ACT, 31 October/1 November 2008
context_page_description: Australian moths represent between 20,000 and 30,000 different types of moths. In comparison, there are only 400 species of Australian butterflies. The moths and butterflies together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. Scientifically, these moths are organised into about 80 families, but the status of some is controversial and several recent changes have been suggested.
  This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Australia. The list covers the continent of Australia and Tasmania and includes islands close to the mainland.
  This page provides a link to detailed lists of these moths by family. If a family is endemic to Australia, the link redirects to a description of the family itself.
context_section_description: Adelidae
  Agathiphagidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Agathiphaga queenslandensis Dumbleton, 1952
  Agonoxenidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Agonoxena phoenicia Bradley, 1966
  Alucitidae
  Anomosetidae
  Anthelidae
  Arctiidae
  Argyresthiidae (mostly treated as a subfamily of Yponomeutidae)
  Only one Australian species is known: Argyresthia notoleuca (Turner, 1913)
  Arrhenophanidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Notiophanes fuscata Davis and Edwards, 2003
  Batrachedridae
  Blastobasidae
  Blastodacnidae (sometimes included in Agonoxenidae)
  Bombycidae
  Only three Australian species are known: Bombyx mori (Linnaeus, 1758), Gastridiota adoxima (Turner, 1902) and an unnamed Elachyophthalma species.
  Brachodidae
  Bucculatricidae
  Carposinidae
  Carthaeidae
  Castniidae
  Choreutidae
  Coleophoridae
  Copromorphidae
  Cosmopterigidae
  Cossidae
  Cyclotornidae
  Depressariidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae)
  Drepanidae
  Douglasiidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Tinagma leucanthes Meyrick, 1897
  Dudgeoneidae
  Elachistidae
  Epermeniidae
  Epipyropidae
  Erebidae
  Eriocottidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Eucryptogona trichobathra Lower, 1901
  Ethmiidae
  Eupterotidae
  Galacticidae
  Gelechiidae
  Geometridae
  Glyphipterigidae
  Gracillariidae
  Heliocosma group
  Heliodinidae
  Heliozelidae
  Hepialidae
  Herminiidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Noctuidae)
  Hyblaeidae
  Hypertrophidae (mostly considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae)
  Immidae
  Incurvariidae
  Lacturidae
  Lasiocampidae
  Lecithoceridae
  Limacodidae
  Lophocoronidae
  Lymantriidae
  Lyonetiidae
  Macropiratidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Agdistopis halieutica (Meyrick, 1932)
  Micronoctuidae
  Only few Australian species are known: Duplex horakae Fibiger, 2010, Duplex edwardsi Fibiger, 2010, Duplex pullata Fibiger, 2010, Duplex cockingi Fibiger, 2010 and Flax kalliesi Fibiger, 2011. Records for Tolpia conscitulana Walker, 1863 and Tolpia myops Hampson, 1907, formerly included in Noctuidae, are based on misidentifications.
  Micropterigidae
  The following Australian species are known: Austromartyria porphyrodes (Turner, 1932), Aureopterix sterops (Turner, 1921) and the species in the genus Tasmantrix.
  Momphidae
  Only an unnamed Zapyrastra species is known.
  Nepticulidae
  Noctuidae (including Aganaidae and Nolidae)
  Notodontidae
  Oecophoridae
  Oenosandridae
  Opostegidae
  Palaeosetidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Palaeoses scholastica Turner, 1922.
  Palaephatidae
  Plutellidae
  Psychidae
  Pterophoridae
  Pyralidae (including Crambidae)
  Roeslerstammiidae
  Saturniidae
  Scythrididae
  Sesiidae
  Simaethistidae
  Only two Australian species are known: Metaprotus asuridia (Butler, 1886) and Metaprotus magnifica (Meyrick, 1887)
  Sphingidae
  Symmocidae
  Only one Australian species is known: Nemotyla oribates Nielsen, McQuillan & Common, 1992
  Thyrididae
  Tineidae
  Tineodidae
  Tortricidae
  Uraniidae
  Yponomeutidae
  Zygaenidae
caption: Thallarcha albicollis
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