HERMINIINAE of Australia Litter Moths EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

HERMINIINAE moths

HERMINIINAE undersides

HERMINIINAE forewings

Sometimes, this group of species is treated as a subfamily HERMINIINAE of either NOCTUIDAE or of EREBIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., we list it as a family.

The 26 named Australian species in HERMINIIDAE are:

Adrapsa ablualis

Auchmophanes ochrospila
Auchmophanes platysara

Bocana manifestalis

Corethrobela melanophaes

Hydrillodes dimissalis
Hydrillodes funestalis
Hydrillodes lentalis
Hydrillodes metisalis

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

Mormoscopa phricozona
Mormoscopa sordescens : Night Moth

Nodaria aneliopis
Nodaria cornicalis : Magus Fruit-borer

Polypogon fractalis

Progonia umbrifera

Schistorhynx unistriga

Simplicia armatalis : Crescent Moth
Simplicia caeneusalis
Simplicia erebina

Simplicia rufa

Squamipalpis pantoea

Stenhypena albopunctata

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

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(updated 20 October 2014, 8 September 2023)