List of Lepidoptera of Easter Island
Location of Easter Island
The Lepidoptera of Easter Island consist of the butterflies and moths recorded from Easter Island.
Butterflies
Nymphalidae
- Hypolimnas bolina otaheitae (C. Felder, 1862)
- Vanessa carye (Hübner, 1812)
Moths
Cosmopterigidae
- Asymphorodes trichogramma (J.F.G. Clarke, 1986)
Gelechiidae
- Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)
Geometridae
- Gymnoscelis concinna (Swinhoe, 1902)
Noctuidae
- Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
- Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
- Ctenoplusia albostriata (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
Pterophoridae
- Stenoptilia species
Pyralidae
- Ephestia cautella (Walker, 1863)
- Hymenia recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
Tineidae
- Opogona aurisquamosa (Butler, 1881)
Tortricidae
- Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847)
Yponomeutidae
- Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- W. John Tennent: "A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas". Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 April 2006)
- J.D. Holloway "The Lepidoptera of Easter, Pitcairn and Henderson Islands" Journal of Natural History June 1990 24(3):719-729 doi:10.1080/00222939000770501
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