COSMOPTERIGIDAE of Australia Seed Borers GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

COSMOPTERIGIDAE caterpillars

COSMOPTERIGIDAE pupae

COSMOPTERIGIDAE moths

COSMOPTERIGIDAE undersides

These moths are placed by some taxonomists in ELACHISTIDAE, but here, following the Checklist of Australian Lepidoptera, we list it as a separate family.

Some important members of the 389 named Australian species in COSMOPTERIGIDAE are:

Cosmopterix epizona
Cosmopterix heliactis

Cosmopterix isoteles
Cosmopterix macrula

Labdia cyanogramma
Labdia deliciosella
Labdia leucombra
Labdia oxysema

Leptozestis ecstatica
Leptozestis harmosta
Leptozestis toreutica

Limnaecia callimitris
Limnaecia camptosema
Limnaecia chionospila
Limnaecia cirrhosema
Limnaecia cirrhozona
Limnaecia leptomeris
Limnaecia polycydista
Limnaecia scoliosema
Limnaecia tetraplanetis

Macrobathra alternatella
Macrobathra anacampta

Macrobathra anemarcha
Macrobathra aphristis
Macrobathra arrectella

Macrobathra astrota
Macrobathra baliomitra
Macrobathra bigerella
Macrobathra callipetala

Macrobathra callispila
Macrobathra ceraunobola
Macrobathra chrysotoxa

Macrobathra crococosma
Macrobathra desmotoma
Macrobathra diplochrysa

Macrobathra erythrocephala
Macrobathra euryleuca

Macrobathra euryxantha
Macrobathra euspila
Macrobathra hamaxitodes
Macrobathra harmostis
Macrobathra heminephela

Macrobathra isoscelana
Macrobathra leucopeda
Macrobathra leucozancla

Macrobathra melanargyra
Macrobathra melanomitra
Macrobathra mesopora

Macrobathra monostadia
Macrobathra myriophthalma
Macrobathra nephelomorpha

Macrobathra phryganina
Macrobathra platychroa

Macrobathra rhythmodes
Macrobathra rubicundella
Macrobathra sarcoleuca
Macrobathra vividella

Trissodoris euphaedra

Xestocasis balanochrysa

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(updated 16 December 2014, 18 June 2025)