Biology:List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)

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This is a list of moths of the family Crambidae that are found in South Africa . It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of South Africa.

• Achyra coelatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Achyra nudalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Adelpherupa typicosta (Meyrick, 1933)
• Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Afroscoparia contemptalis (Walker, 1866)
• Agathodes incoloralis (Hampson, 1918)
• Agathodes modicalis Guenée, 1854
• Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854
• Agathodes ostentalis (Geyer, 1837)
• Agrotera citrina Hampson, 1898
• Agrotera fumosa Hampson, 1898
• Alphacrambus prodontellus (Hampson, 1919)
• Alphacrambus razowskii (Błeszyński, 1961)
• Ambia chalcichroalis Hampson, 1906
• Ambia melanalis Hampson, 1906
• Anania aurea (Butler, 1875)
• Anania fusalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Anania impunctata (Warren, 1897)
• Ancylolomia caffra Zeller, 1877
• Ancylolomia capensis Zeller, 1852
• Ancylolomia castaneata Hampson, 1919
• Ancylolomia lentifascialis Hampson, 1919
• Ancylolomia melanella Hampson, 1919
• Ancylolomia mirabilis Wallengren, 1876
• Ancylolomia pectinifera Hampson, 1910
• Ancylolomia perfasciata Hampson, 1919
• Ancylolomia planicosta Martin, 1956
• Ancylolomia prepiella Hampson, 1919
• Ancylolomia simplella de Joannis, 1913
• Angustalius hapaliscus (Zeller, 1852)
• Angustalius malacellus (Duponchel, 1836)
• Anomocrambus homerus Błeszyński, 1961
• Antigastra catalaunalis (Duponchel, 1833)
• Antigastra morysalis (Walker, 1859)
• Archernis flavidalis Hampson, 1908
• Argentochiloides meridionalis Bassi, 1999
• Argyractis capensis Hampson, 1906
• Argyractis nyasalis Hampson, 1917
• Argyractis nymphulalis Hampson, 1906
• Argyractis pentopalis Hampson, 1906
• Argyractis periopis Hampson, 1910
• Argyractis sambesica (Strand, 1909)
• Aurotalis nigrisquamalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Aurotalis similis Bassi, 1999
• Autocharis albiplaga (Hampson, 1913)
• Autocharis fessalis (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Autocharis jacobsalis (Marion & Viette, 1956)
• Autocharis sinualis (Hampson, 1899)
• Blepharucha zaide (Stoll, 1790)
• Bocchoris inspersalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Bocchoris nuclealis de Joannis, 1927
• Bocchoris onychinalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854
• Bradina admixtalis (Walker, 1859)
• Bradina fasciculalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Brihaspa chrysostomus (Zeller, 1852)
• Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Caffrocrambus alcibiades Błeszyński, 1961
• Caffrocrambus decolorelloides Błeszyński, 1970
• Caffrocrambus decolorellus (Walker, 1863)
• Caffrocrambus dichotomellus (Hampson, 1919)
• Caffrocrambus endoxantha (Hampson, 1919)
• Caffrocrambus leucofascialis (Janse, 1922)
• Caffrocrambus ochreus Błeszyński, 1970
• Caffrocrambus undilineatus (Hampson, 1919)
• Calamochrous flavimarginalis Hampson, 1913
• Calamoschoena stictalis Hampson, 1919
• Calamotropha abjectella Snellen, 1872
• Calamotropha anticella (Walker, 1866)
• Calamotropha argenteociliella Pagenstecher, 1893
• Calamotropha bradleyi Błeszyński, 1960
• Calamotropha diakonoffi Błeszyński, 1961
• Calamotropha discellus (Walker, 1863)
• Calamotropha heliocaustus (Wallengren, 1876)
• Calamotropha paludella (Hübner, 1824)
• Calamotropha stachi Błeszyński, 1961
• Calamotropha torpidellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Calamotropha tripartitus (Hampson, 1919)
• Calamotropha wallengreni Błeszyński, 1961
• Calamotropha xanthypa Błeszyński, 1961
• Cangetta albiceps (Hampson, 1917)
• Cataclysta nyasalis Hampson, 1917
• Cataclysta perirrorata Hampson, 1917
• Charltona plurivittalis Hampson, 1910
• Charltona tritonella (Hampson, 1898)
• Chilo argyropasta (Hampson, 1919)
• Chilo orichalcociliella (Strand, 1911)
• Chilo partellus (Swinhoe, 1885)
• Chilo phaeosema Martin, 1958
• Chilo prophylactes (Meyrick, 1936)
• Chilo recalvus Wallengren, 1876
• Chrysocatharylla fusca Bassi, 1999
• Chrysocatharylla lucasi Schouten, 1994
• Chrysocatharylla oenescentellus (Hampson, 1896)
• Circobotys caffralis (Hampson, 1910)
• Cirrhochrista argentiplaga Warren, 1897
• Cirrhochrista grabczewskyi E. Hering, 1903
• Classeya argyrodonta (Hampson, 1910)
• Classeya trichelites (Meyrick, 1936)
• Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Cornifrons albidiscalis Hampson, 1916
• Cotachena octoguttalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875)
• Crambus archimedes Błeszyński, 1961
• Crambus argyrostola (Hampson, 1919)
• Crambus bellissimus Błeszyński, 1961
• Crambus ellipticellus Hampson, 1919
• Crambus lacteella Janse, 1922
• Crambus leucoschalis Hampson, 1898
• Crambus sectitermina Hampson, 1910
• Crambus sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1910
• Crambus sparsellus Walker, 1866
• Crambus tenuistriga Hampson, 1898
• Crambus themistocles Błeszyński, 1961
• Crambus uniformella Janse, 1922
• Crambus viettellus Błeszyński & Collins, 1962
• Crambus xebus Błeszyński, 1962
• Criophthona aridalis Hampson, 1913
• Criophthona sabulosalis Hampson, 1910
• Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794)
• Crypsiptya ruficostalis (Hampson, 1918)
• Culladia achroellum (Mabille, 1900)
• Culladia inconspicuellus (Snellen, 1872)
• Culladia serranella Błeszyński, 1970
• Culladiella sinuimargo (Hampson, 1919)
• Cybalomia squamosa (Hampson, 1913)
• Daulia auriplumbea (Warren, 1914)
• Daulia subaurealis (Walker, 1865)
• Desmia argyrosticta (Hampson, 1910)
• Deuterophysa grisealis Hampson, 1917
• Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Diasemia disjectalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Diasemia monostigma Hampson, 1913
• Diasemia trigonialis Hampson, 1913
• Diasemiopsis ramburialis (Duponchel, 1834)
• Diastictis incisalis (Snellen, 1880)
• Diastictis tenera (Butler, 1883)
• Dipleurinodes phaeopalpia (Hampson, 1917)
• Dolicharthria bruguieralis (Duponchel, 1833)
• Dolicharthria desertalis (Hampson, 1907)
• Dolicharthria lanceolalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Dolicharthria paediusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Dolicharthria signatalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Donacaula ignitalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Donacaula phaeopastalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, 1847
• Dysallacta negatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Elophila africalis (Hampson, 1906)
• Elophila circealis (Walker, 1859)
• Epascestria argyrostacta (Hampson, 1910)
• Epascestria croesusalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Epascestria distictalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Epascestria euprepialis (Hampson, 1913)
• Epascestria microdontalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Epascestria pictalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Epipagis cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Epipagis roseocinctalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Euchromius discopis (Hampson, 1919)
• Euchromius klimeschi Błeszyński, 1961
• Euchromius mythus Błeszyński, 1970
• Euchromius nigrobasalis Schouten, 1988
• Euchromius ocellea (Haworth, 1811)
• Euclasta bacescui Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1977
• Euclasta pauli Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973
• Euclasta varii Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973
• Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892
• Eudonia gracilineata Nuss, 2000
• Eurrhyparodes bracteolalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Eurrhyparodes tricoloralis (Zeller, 1852)
• Eusabena miltochristalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Evergestis africalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Evergestis forficalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Filodes costivitralis Guenée, 1862
• Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glaucocharis natalensis (Hampson, 1919)
• Glaucocharis subnatalensis (Błeszyński, 1970)
• Glyphodes aniferalis Hampson, 1909
• Glyphodes basifascialis Hampson, 1898
• Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821)
• Glyphodes bitriangulalis Gaede, 1917
• Glyphodes capensis (Walker, 1866)
• Glyphodes chrysialis (Stoll, 1790)
• Glyphodes praefulgida Hering, 1903
• Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859
• Glyphodes quadrinalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Glyphodes shafferorum Viette, 1987
• Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854
• Haimbachia aculeata (Hampson, 1903)
• Haimbachia albiceps (Hampson, 1919)
• Haimbachia fuscicilia (Hampson, 1910)
• Haimbachia proaraealis (Błeszyński, 1961)
• Haimbachia unipunctalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Heliothela ophideresana (Walker, 1863)
• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Herpetogramma mutualis (Zeller, 1852)
• Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)

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• Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Hyalobathra charopalis Swinhoe, 1907
• Hyalobathra metallogramma Meyrick, 1934
• Hyalobathra retinalis (Saalmüller, 1879)
• Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832)
• Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Hymenoptychis sordida Zeller, 1852
• Ischnurges lancinalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Ischnurges rhodographalis Hampson, 1913
• Knysna jansei Bassi, 1999
• Lamprophaia ablactalis (Walker, 1859)
• Lamprosema hottentota Hampson, 1918
• Lamprosema ommatalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Leonardo davincii Błeszyński, 1965
• Leucinodes longipalpis (Warren, 1892)
• Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée, 1854
• Leucinodes translucidalis Gaede, 1917
• Leucinodes vagans (Tutt, 1890)
• Loxophantis pretoriella Błeszyński, 1970
• Loxostege frustalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Loxostege lacunalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Loxostege oblinalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Loxostege plumbatalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Loxostege venustalis (Cramer, 1782)
• Luma flavimarginalis Hampson, 1907
• Luma holoxantha Hampson, 1907
• Lygropia anaemicalis Hampson, 1912
• Lygropia atrinervalis Hampson, 1910
• Lygropia nigricornis Hampson, 1898
• Lygropia pogonodes Hampson, 1912
• Lygropia straminea Hampson, 1912
• Lygropia tetraspilalis Hampson, 1912
• Marasmia binalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
• Marwitzia dichocrocis (Hampson, 1913)
• Marwitzia polystidzalis (Hampson, 1918)
• Metasia eremialis Hampson, 1913
• Metasia holoxanthia Hampson, 1899
• Metasia profanalis (Walker, 1865)
• Metasia sinuifera Hampson, 1913
• Metoeca foedalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Mimorista pulchellalis Dyar, 1922
• Nausinoe geometralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nausinoe piabilis (Wallengren, 1875)
• Neargyria persimilis Hampson, 1919
• Neostege holoxutha Hampson, 1910
• Noctuelia annuliferalis Hampson, 1913
• Nomophila africana Munroe, 1973
• Nomophila brevispinalis Munroe, 1973
• Nomophila incognita Viette, 1959
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Noorda blitealis Walker, 1859
• Notarcha cassualis (Walker, 1859)
• Notarcha muscerdalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Notarcha obrinusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Notarcha quaternalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Notarcha temeratalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Obtusipalpis pardalis Hampson, 1896
• Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)
• Orphanostigma fervidalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Orphanostigma latimarginalis (Walker, 1859)
• Ostrinia erythrialis (Hampson, 1913)
• Pagyda salvalis Walker, 1859
• Palpita actorionalis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita bonjongalis (Plötz, 1880)
• Palpita claralis (Walker, 1865)
• Palpita elealis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita lobisignalis (Hampson, 1918)
• Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Palpita prolausalis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita stenocraspis (Butler, 1898)
• Palpita subjectalis (Lederer, 1863)
• Palpita unionalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Paracatalysta fuscalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Parapoynx affinialis Guenée, 1854
• Parapoynx diminutalis (Snellen, 1880)
• Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Parapoynx stagnalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Paratraea obliquivalis (Hampson, 1918)
• Pardomima callixantha Martin, 1955
• Pardomima furcirenalis (Hampson, 1918)
• Pardomima phalarota (Meyrick, 1933)
• Pardomima zanclophora Martin, 1955
• Parerupa africana (Aurivillius, 1910)
• Parotis baldersalis (Walker, 1859)
• Parotis prasinalis (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Parotis prasinophila (Hampson, 1912)
• Parotis pyritalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Parotis squamopedalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Parotis vernalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Parotis zambesalis (Walker, 1912)
• Parthenodes angularis Hampson, 1897
• Parthenodes scotalis Hampson, 1906
• Paschiodes mesoleucalis Hampson, 1913
• Patissa frontalis (Walker, 1865)
• Patissa pulverea (Hampson, 1919)
• Patissa virginea (Zeller, 1852)
• Pediasia amandusella Błeszyński, 1969
• Pediasia contaminella (Hübner, 1796)
• Pediasia figuratellus (Walker, 1866)
• Pediasia fulvitinctellus (Hampson, 1896)
• Pediasia lucrecia Błeszyński, 1969
• Phostria albescentalis Hampson, 1918
• Piletocera flavalis Hampson, 1917
• Piletocera hemiphaealis (Hampson, 1907)
• Piletocera signiferalis (Wallengren, 1860)
• Pilocrocis glaucitalis Hampson, 1912
• Pilocrocis melastictalis Hampson, 1912
• Pilocrocis patagialis Hampson, 1909
• Pilocrocis pterygodia Hampson, 1912
• Pleuroptya aegrotalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Pleuroptya paleacalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Polygrammodes phyllophila (Butler, 1878)
• Prionapteryx albiceps (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionapteryx albimaculalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionapteryx albofascialis (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionapteryx alternalis Maes, 2002
• Prionapteryx argentescens (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionapteryx brevivittalis Hampson, 1919
• Prionapteryx molybdella (Hampson, 1919)
• Prochoristis calamochroa (Hampson, 1919)
• Psara aprepia (Hampson, 1913)
• Psara atritermina (Hampson, 1913)
• Psara basalis (Walker, 1866)
• Psara pallidalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Pseudocatharylla angolica Błeszyński, 1964
• Pseudocatharylla auricinctalis (Walker, 1863)
• Pseudocatharylla calypso Bassi, 1999
• Pseudocatharylla flavipedellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Pseudocatharylla polyxena Błeszyński, 1964
• Pseudocatharylla xymena Błeszyński, 1964
• Pseudonoorda ecthaemata (Hampson, 1913)
• Pseudonoorda rubricostalis (Hampson, 1910)
• Ptochostola metascotiella Hampson, 1919
• Ptychopseustis lophopedalis (de Joannis, 1927)
• Pycnarmon albivittalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Pycnarmon cribrata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pycnarmon diaphana (Cramer, 1779)
• Pycnarmon meritalis (Walker, 1859)
• Pygospila tyres (Cramer, 1780)
• Pyrausta admensalis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta adsocialis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pyrausta albialis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta apicalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Pyrausta bilineaterminalis Maes, 2009
• Pyrausta cinnamomealis (Wallengren, 1860)
• Pyrausta diatoma Hampson, 1913
• Pyrausta diniasalis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta gemmiferalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pyrausta haematidalis Hampson, 1913
• Pyrausta lithosialis Hampson, 1899
• Pyrausta olesialis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta orbitalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Pyrausta perfervidalis Hampson, 1913
• Pyrausta phaenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Pyrausta procillusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta rufinalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Pyrausta rufitincta Hampson, 1913
• Salbia haemorrhoidalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Sameodes microspilalis Hampson, 1913
• Sameodesma undilinealis Hampson, 1918
• Sameodesma xanthocraspia (Hampson, 1913)
• Sceliodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Schoenobius attenuata Hampson, 1919
• Schoenobius caminarius Zeller, 1852
• Schoenobius forficella (Thunberg, 1794)
• Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker, 1863)
• Scirpophaga occidentella (Walker, 1863)
• Sebrus absconditus Bassi, 1995
• Sebrus pseudosparsellus (Błeszyński, 1961)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

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• Stemorrhages sericea (Drury, 1773)
• Syllepte butlerii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Syllepte mesoleucalis Hampson, 1898
• Syllepte mysisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Syllepte nasonalis Hampson, 1898
• Syllepte orbiferalis Hampson, 1898
• Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
• Syllepte patagialis (Zeller, 1852)
• Syllepte polycymalis Hampson, 1912
• Syllepte purpurascens Hampson, 1899
• Syllepte rogationis Hampson, 1918
• Syllepte straminea (Butler, 1875)
• Syllepte trifidalis Hampson, 1908
• Syllepte xylocraspis (Hampson, 1912)
• Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Syngamia liquidalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Tegostoma bipartalis Hampson, 1896
• Tegostoma comparalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Tegostoma florilegarium (Guenée, 1857)
• Tegostoma subditalis Zeller, 1852
• Tegostoma subterminalis Hampson, 1918
• Terastia margaritis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Terastia meticulosalis Guenée, 1854
• Thliptoceras polygrammodes Hampson, 1899
• Trichophysetis flavimargo (Warren, 1897)
• Trichophysetis whitei Rebel, 1906
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Udea hageni Viette, 1952
• Udea infuscalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Udeoides muscosalis (Hampson, 1913)
• Udeoides nolalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852
• Ulopeza denticulalis Hampson, 1912
• Viettessa margaritalis (Hampson, 1910)
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)