URANIIDAE of Australia Swallowtail Moths GEOMETROIDEA

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

URANIIDAE caterpillars

URANIIDAE pupae

URANIIDAE moths

URANIIDAE undersides

URANIIDAE forewings

Many of the URANIIDAE fly in daylight hours, and the family was put in its own separate superfamily URANIOIDEA. More recent DNA studies show an affiliation with moths in GEOMETRIDAE which typically fly at night. So some taxonomists place the URANIIDAE in the superfamily GEOMETROIDEA, so here we adhere to this newer system.

Some Australian representatives of URANIIDAE, including the 32 named species, are :

Acropteris nanula
Acropteris teriadata

Alcides metaurus : Zodiac Moth

Aploschema discata

Balantiucha cyclocrossa
Balantiucha decorata
Balantiucha leucocephala
Balantiucha mutans

Balantiucha seminigra
Balantiucha stolida

Cathetus euthysticha

Chundana lugubris

Cyphura geminia

Dirades lugens

Dysrhombia longipennis

Epiplema angulata
Epiplema argillodes
Epiplema coeruleotincta
Epiplema conflictaria
Epiplema desistaria

Epiplema leucosema
Epiplema quadristrigata

Epiplema thiocosma

Europlema semibrunnea

Lyssa macleayi

Monobolodes subfalcata

Phazaca interrupta

Rhombophylla xylinopis

Stesichora quadripunctata

Strophidia directaria

Urapteroides astheniata

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(updated 4 April 2015, 4 August 2025)