HERMINIIDAE of Australia
Litter Moths
 NOCTUOIDEA

  
HERMINIIDAE

moths
  
HERMINIIDAE

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

Sometimes, this group of species is treated as a subfamily of NOCTUIDAE but here following the recent paper Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) here we list them as a subfamily of EREBIDAE.

The 26 named Australian species in HERMINIIDAE are:

Adrapsa ablualis

  • Auchmophanes megalosara
  • Auchmophanes ochrospila
    Auchmophanes platysara

  • Bocana manifestalis

  • Corethrobela melanophaes

    Hydrillodes dimissalis
    Hydrillodes funestalis
     Hydrillodes lentalis
    Hydrillodes metisalis

  • Lithilaria anomozancla
  • Lithilaria melanostrotum
    Lithilaria ossicolor : Bone Moth
    Lithilaria proestans : Sculpted Bone Moth

    Mormoscopa phricozona
    Mormoscopa sordescens : Night Moth

    Nodaria aneliopis
    Nodaria cornicalis

    Polypogon fractalis

    Progonia umbrifera

    Simplicia armatalis : Crescent Moth
    Simplicia caeneusalis
    Simplicia erebina

  • Simplicia rufa

    Squamipalpis pantoea

  • Stenhypena albopunctata

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    (updated 20 October 2014, 29 January 2017)