Biology:List of moths of Australia (Cosmopterigidae)

Short description: Partial list of Australian moths

This is a list of the Australian species of the family Cosmopterigidae. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of Australia.

Chrysopeleiinae

• Cholotis exodroma (Meyrick, 1897)
• Cholotis semnostola (Meyrick, 1897)
• Eumenodora encrypta Meyrick, 1906
• Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962
• Leptozestis anagrapta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis antithetis (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis argoscia (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis autochroa (Meyrick, 1915)
• Leptozestis capnopora (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis cataspoda (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis charmosyna (Meyrick, 1921)
• Leptozestis crassipalpis (Turner, 1923)
• Leptozestis crebra (Meyrick, 1906)
• Leptozestis cyclonica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis decalopha (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis ecstatica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis epiphrixa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis euryplaca (Lower, 1893)
• Leptozestis eximia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis gnophodes (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis harmosta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis hestiopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis melanopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis ochlopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis parascia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis phylactis (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis psarotricha (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis psoralea (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis sedula (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis spodoptera (Turner, 1923)
• Leptozestis strophicodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Leptozestis tephras (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis toreutica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis tropaea (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis valida (Meyrick, 1919)
• Orthromicta argonota Turner, 1923
• Orthromicta galactitis Meyrick, 1897
• Orthromicta semifumea Turner, 1923
• Trachydora acrocyrta (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora acromianta (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora actinia Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora anthrascopa Lower, 1904
• Trachydora aphrocoma Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora argoneura Lower, 1904
• Trachydora astragalota Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora capnopa (Lower, 1894)
• Trachydora centromela Lower, 1904
• Trachydora chalybanthes Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora chlorozona Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora chrysodoxa Meyrick, 1915
• Trachydora corysta Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora dionysias Meyrick, 1921
• Trachydora droserodes Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora fumea (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora heliodora (Lower, 1894)
• Trachydora heliotricha (Lower, 1894)
• Trachydora illustris Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora iridoptila Meyrick, 1921
• Trachydora leucobathra Lower, 1904
• Trachydora leucura Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora macrostola (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora microleuca Lower, 1904
• Trachydora molybdimera Lower, 1904
• Trachydora musaea Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora nomodoxa Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora oxypeuces Turner, 1939
• Trachydora oxyzona Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora peroneta Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora placophanes Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora polyzona Lower, 1904
• Trachydora porphyrescens (Lower, 1894)
• Trachydora psammodes Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora pygaea (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora stephanopa Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora tephronota (Turner, 1923)
• Trachydora thyrsophora Meyrick, 1897
• Trachydora zophopepla Lower, 1904

Cosmopteriginae

• Cosmopterix aculeata Meyrick, 1909
• Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)
• Cosmopterix calliochra (Turner, 1926)
• Cosmopterix chalcelata (Turner, 1923)
• Cosmopterix chlorochalca (Meyrick, 1915)
• Cosmopterix cuprea Lower, 1916
• Cosmopterix dulcivora Meyrick, 1919
• Cosmopterix epizona (Meyrick, 1897)
• Cosmopterix heliactis (Meyrick, 1897)
• Cosmopterix isoteles (Meyrick, 1919)
• Cosmopterix macrula (Meyrick, 1897)
• Cosmopterix mystica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Cosmopterix phaesphora (Turner, 1923)
• Diatonica macrogramma Meyrick, 1921
• Echinoscelis pandani (Turner, 1923)
• Glaphyristis lithinopa Meyrick, 1917
• Glaphyristis marmarea Meyrick, 1897
• Haplochrois chlorometalla Meyrick, 1897
• Haplochrois tanyptera Turner, 1923
• Haplochrois thalycra Meyrick, 1897
• Heureta cirrhodora (Meyrick, 1915)
• Isorrhoa aetheria (Meyrick, 1897)
• Isorrhoa ancistrota (Turner, 1923)
• Isorrhoa aphrosema (Meyrick, 1897)
• Isorrhoa atmozona Turner, 1917
• Isorrhoa implicata Meyrick, 1920
• Isorrhoa loxoschema Turner, 1923
• Labdia anarithma (Meyrick, 1889)
• Labdia ancylosema Turner, 1923
• Labdia apenthes Turner, 1939
• Labdia aresta Turner, 1926
• Labdia argophracta Turner, 1923
• Labdia argyrozona (Lower, 1904)
• Labdia arimaspia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia auchmerodes Turner, 1939
• Labdia autotoma (Meyrick, 1919)
• Labdia bathrosema (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia bryomima (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia calthula Turner, 1923
• Labdia ceraunica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia chalcoplecta Turner, 1933
• Labdia charisia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia chryselectra (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia cosmangela Meyrick, 1923
• Labdia crocotypa Turner, 1923
• Labdia cyanogramma (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia deliciosella Walker, 1864
• Labdia ejaculata Meyrick, 1921
• Labdia eumelaena (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia glaucoxantha Meyrick, 1921
• Labdia hexaspila Turner, 1923
• Labdia hierarcha (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia irrigua (Meyrick, 1915)
• Labdia ischnotypa Turner, 1923
• Labdia leucombra (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia leuconota Turner, 1923
• Labdia microchalca Meyrick, 1921
• Labdia mitrophora Turner, 1923
• Labdia myrrhicoma (Meyrick, 1917)
• Labdia nesophora (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia niphocera Turner, 1923
• Labdia niphostephes Turner, 1923
• Labdia ochrostephana Turner, 1923
• Labdia orthoschema Turner, 1923
• Labdia oxysema (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia oxytoma (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia pammeces Turner, 1923
• Labdia pantophyrta Turner, 1923
• Labdia phaeocala Turner, 1926
• Labdia pileata (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia promacha (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia rhadinopis Turner, 1923
• Labdia rhoecosticha Turner, 1923
• Labdia schismatias (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia symbolias (Meyrick, 1906)
• Labdia thalamaula (Meyrick, 1915)
• Labdia thermophila (Lower, 1900)
• Labdia triploa Turner, 1923
• Labdia tristoecha Turner, 1923
• Labdia trivincta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Labdia zonobela Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia adiacrita Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia anisodesma Lower, 1904
• Limnaecia bisignis Meyrick, 1921
• Limnaecia callimitris Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia camptosema Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia charactis Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia chionospila Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia chrysonesa Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia chrysothorax Meyrick, 1920
• Limnaecia cirrhosema Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia cirrhozona Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia crossomela Lower, 1908
• Limnaecia cybophora Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia definitiva (T.P. Lucas, 1901)
• Limnaecia elaphropa Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia epimictis Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia eristica Meyrick, 1919
• Limnaecia eugramma Lower, 1899
• Limnaecia hemidoma Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia hemimitra Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia heterozona Lower, 1904
• Limnaecia ida Lower, 1908
• Limnaecia iriastis Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia isodesma Lower, 1904
• Limnaecia isozona Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia leptomeris Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia leptozona Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia leucomita Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia loxoscia Lower, 1923
• Limnaecia lunacrescens (T.P. Lucas, 1901)
• Limnaecia melanoma (Lower, 1897)
• Limnaecia monoxantha (Meyrick, 1922)
• Limnaecia novalis Meyrick, 1920
• Limnaecia ochrozona Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia orbigera Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia orthochroa (Lower, 1899)
• Limnaecia pallidula Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia phragmitella Stainton, 1851
• Limnaecia pycnogramma (Lower, 1918)
• Limnaecia platychlora Meyrick, 1915
• Limnaecia platyochra Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia platyscia Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia polyactis Meyrick, 1921
• Limnaecia polycydista Turner, 1926
• Limnaecia pterolopha Meyrick, 1920
• Limnaecia scoliosema Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia stenosticha Turner, 1926
• Limnaecia symplecta Turner, 1923
• Limnaecia syntaracta Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia tetraplanetis Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia triplaneta Meyrick, 1921
• Limnaecia trisema Meyrick, 1897
• Limnaecia trissodesma (Meyrick, 1887)
• Limnaecia trixantha (Lower, 1920)
• Limnaecia xanthopelta Lower, 1903
• Limnaecia xanthopis Meyrick, 1920
• Limnaecia zonomacula Lower, 1908
• Limnaecia zotica Meyrick, 1921
• Macrobathra allocrana Turner, 1916
• Macrobathra allophyla (Turner, 1944)
• Macrobathra alternatella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra anacampta Meyrick, 1914
• Macrobathra anemarcha Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra anemodes Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra aneurae Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra aphristis Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra arrectella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra asemanta Lower, 1894
• Macrobathra astrota Meyrick, 1914
• Macrobathra baliomitra Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra basisticha (Turner, 1936)
• Macrobathra bigerella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra brontodes Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra callipetala Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra callispila Turner, 1916
• Macrobathra ceraunobola Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra chryseostola Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra chrysospila Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra chrysotoxa Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra cirrhodora Meyrick, 1915
• Macrobathra constrictella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra crococosma Meyrick, 1922
• Macrobathra dasyplaca Lower, 1894
• Macrobathra decataea Meyrick, 1914
• Macrobathra desmotoma Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra diplochrysa Lower, 1894
• Macrobathra dispila Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra drosera Lower, 1901
• Macrobathra embroneta Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra epimela (Lower, 1894)
• Macrobathra erythrocephala (Lower, 1904)
• Macrobathra eudesma Lower, 1900
• Macrobathra euryleuca Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra euryxantha Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra euspila Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra galenaea Meyrick, 1902
• Macrobathra gastroleuca Lower, 1905
• Macrobathra hamaxitodes Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra harmostis Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra heminephela Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra hemitropa Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra heterocera Lower, 1894
• Macrobathra heterozona Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra hexadyas Meyrick, 1906
• Macrobathra homocosma Meyrick, 1902
• Macrobathra honoratella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra humilis (Turner, 1933)
• Macrobathra hyalistis Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra isoscelana Lower, 1893
• Macrobathra leucopeda Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra leucozancla Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra lychnophora Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra melanargyra Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra melanomitra Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra melanota Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra mesopora Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra micropis Lower, 1894
• Macrobathra microspora Lower, 1900
• Macrobathra monoclina Meyrick, 1915
• Macrobathra monostadia Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra myriophthalma Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra nephelomorpha Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra nimbifera Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra niphadobola Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914
• Macrobathra notozyga Meyrick, 1914
• Macrobathra paracentra Lower, 1893
• Macrobathra parthenistis Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra phernaea Lower, 1899
• Macrobathra philopsamma Lower, 1900
• Macrobathra phryganina Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra platychroa Lower, 1897
• Macrobathra platyzona Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra polypasta Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra pompholyctis Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra porphyrea Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra psathyrodes Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra rhodospila Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra rhythmodes Turner, 1916
• Macrobathra rubicundella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra sarcoleuca Meyrick, 1915
• Macrobathra stenosema Turner, 1932
• Macrobathra synacta Meyrick, 1920
• Macrobathra synastra Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra syncoma Lower, 1899
• Macrobathra trimorpha Meyrick, 1889
• Macrobathra trithyra Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra vexillariata Lucas, 1901
• Macrobathra vividella (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Macrobathra xanthoplaca Meyrick, 1902
• Macrobathra xuthocoma Meyrick, 1886
• Macrobathra xylopterella (Walker, 1864)
• Macrobathra zonodesma Lower, 1900
• Mimodoxa dryina Lower, 1901
• Mimodoxa empyrophanes Turner, 1932
• Mimodoxa loxospila Turner, 1932
• Mimodoxa metallica (Lower, 1899)
• Mimodoxa phaulophanes Turner, 1932
• Mimodoxa tricommatica Turner, 1932
• Morphotica mirifica Meyrick, 1915
• Mothonodes obusta (Meyrick, 1921)
• Otonoma anemois Meyrick, 1897
• Otonoma leucochlaena Meyrick, 1919
• Otonoma sophronica Meyrick, 1920
• Otonoma sphenosema (Meyrick, 1897)
• Paratheta calyptra Lower, 1899
• Paratheta lasiomela Lower, 1899
• Paratheta ochrocoma Lower, 1899
• Pechyptila rhodocharis Meyrick, 1921
• Persicoptila anthophyes Turner, 1926
• Persicoptila arenosa Turner, 1917
• Persicoptila dasysceles Turner, 1917
• Persicoptila hesperis Meyrick, 1897
• Persicoptila mimochora Meyrick, 1897
• Persicoptila oenosceles Turner, 1917
• Persicoptila peltias Meyrick, 1897
• Persicoptila ramulosa Meyrick, 1921
• Persicoptila rhodocnemis Meyrick, 1915
• Persicoptila tritozona Turner, 1917
• Persicoptila vinosa Meyrick, 1921
• Phaneroctena homopsara Turner, 1923
• Phaneroctena pentasticta Turner, 1923
• Phaneroctena spodopasta Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces aellotricha (Meyrick, 1889)
• Pyroderces anaclastis Meyrick, 1897
• Pyroderces argobalana Meyrick, 1915
• Pyroderces eupogon Turner, 1926
• Pyroderces falcatella (Stainton, 1859)
• Pyroderces hapalodes Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces incertulella (Walker, 1864)
• Pyroderces mesoptila Meyrick, 1897
• Pyroderces pogonias Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces pyrrhodes Meyrick, 1897
• Pyroderces rileyi (Walsingham, 1882)
• Pyroderces tenuilinea Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces terminella (Walker, 1864)
• Rhadinastis microlychna Meyrick, 1897
• Rhadinastis sideropa Meyrick, 1897
• Scaeosopha mitescens (T.P. Lucas, 1901)
• Stagmatophora argyrostrepta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Stagmatophora clinarcha Meyrick, 1921
• Stagmatophora haploceros Turner, 1926
• Stagmatophora niphocrana Turner, 1926
• Stagmatophora notoleuca Turner, 1923
• Stagmatophora tetradesma (Meyrick, 1897)
• Tetraconta clepsimorpha Turner, 1932
• Trissodoris euphaedra (Lower, 1904)
• Trissodoris honorariella (Walsingham, 1907)
• Xestocasis balanochrysa Meyrick, 1915
• Xestocasis colometra Meyrick, 1915
• Xestocasis hololampra Meyrick, 1915

External links

• Cosmopterigidae at Australian Faunal Directory
• Cosmopterigidae at lepidoptera.butterflyhouse