List of moths of Australia (Arctiinae) facts for kids

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

Tribe Arctiini

• Aloa costalis Walker, 1865
• Aloa gangara Swinhoe, 1892
• Aloa marginata (Donovan, 1805)
• Amerila alberti (Rothschild, 1910)
• Amerila crokeri (W.S. Macleay, 1826)
• Amerila nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Amerila rubripes Walker, 1865
• Amerila serica Meyrick, 1886
• Amerila simillima (Rothschild, 1917)
• Amerila timolis (Rothschild, 1914)
• Argina astraea (Drury, 1773)
• Cheliosea cosmeta (Lower, 1907)
• Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Nyctemera amicus (White, 1841)
• Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832)
• Nyctemera luctuosa (Vollenhoven, 1863)
• Nyctemera secundiana T.P. Lucas, 1891
• Paralacydes maculifascia (Walker, 1855)
• Phaos aglaophara Turner, 1926
• Phaos interfixa Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma canescens (Butler, 1875)
• Spilosoma curvata (Donovan, 1805)
• Spilosoma erythrastis Meyrick, 1886
• Spilosoma glatignyi (Le Guillou, 1841)
• Spilosoma nobilis Turner, 1940
• Tyria jacobaeae (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Utetheisa aegrotum (Swinhoe, 1892)
• Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, 1777)
• Utetheisa pectinata Hampson, 1907
• Utetheisa pellex (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907

Subtribe Euchromiina

• Euchromia aemulina Butler, 1877
• Euchromia creusa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euchromia lurlina Butler, 1888
• Euchromia polymena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tribe Syntomini

• Amata annulata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Amata antitheta (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata aperta (Walker, 1865)
• Amata atricornuta Gaede, 1926
• Amata bicolor (Walker, 1854)
• Amata chlorometis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata choneutospila (Turner, 1905)
• Amata chroma (Swinhoe, 1892)
• Amata chromatica (Turner, 1905)
• Amata cyanura (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata dyschlaena (Turner, 1905)
• Amata heptaspila (Turner, 1905)
• Amata hesperitis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata huebneri (Boisduval, 1828)
• Amata humeralis (Butler, 1876)
• Amata hyalota (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata insularis (Butler, 1876)
• Amata lampetis (Turner, 1898)
• Amata leucacma (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata lucta (T.P. Lucas, 1901)
• Amata macroplaca (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata magistri (Turner, 1905)
• Amata marella (Butler, 1876)
• Amata melitospila (Turner, 1905)
• Amata nigriceps (Butler, 1876)
• Amata ochrospila (Turner, 1922)
• Amata olinda (Swinhoe, 1892)
• Amata orphnaea (Turner, 1898)
• Amata pactolina (Walker, 1865)
• Amata paradelpha (Turner, 1905)
• Amata paraula (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata phaeochyta (Turner, 1907)
• Amata phepsalotis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata prosomoea (Turner, 1905)
• Amata pyrocoma (Meyrick, 1886)
• Amata recedens (T.P. Lucas, 1891)
• Amata trigonophora (Turner, 1898)
• Amata xanthosoma (Turner, 1898)
• Amata xanthura (Turner, 1905)
• Ceryx guttulosa (Walker, 1865)
• Ceryx sphenodes (Meyrick, 1886)
• Eressa angustipenna (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Eressa geographica (Meyrick, 1886)
• Eressa megalospilia Turner, 1922
• Eressa megatorna Hampson, 1898
• Eressa paurospila Turner, 1922
• Eressa rhysoptila (Turner, 1922)
• Eressa strepsimeris (Meyrick, 1886)

Tribe Lithosiini

• Aedoea decreta (Butler, 1877)
• Ameleta panochra Turner, 1940
• Anestia ombrophanes Meyrick, 1886
• Anestia semiochrea (Butler, 1886)
• Arrhythmica semifusca Turner, 1940
• Asura bipars (Walker, 1865)
• Asura catameces Turner, 1940
• Asura cervicalis Walker, 1854
• Asura coccinocosma Turner, 1940
• Asura compsodes Turner, 1940
• Asura crocopepla Turner, 1940
• Asura crocoptera Turner, 1940
• Asura lydia (Donovan, 1805)
• Asura monospila Turner, 1940
• Asura obliterans Draudt, 1914
• Asura polyspila Turner, 1940
• Asura semivitrea (Rothschild, 1913)
• Asura zebrina (Hampson, 1914)
• Atelophleps tridesma Turner, 1940
• Ateucheta zatesima (Hampson, 1914)
• Calamidia hirta (Walker, 1854)
• Castulo doubledayi Newman, 1857
• Castulo plagiata Walker, 1854
• Chamaita barnardi (T.P. Lucas, 1894)
• Chrysomesia lophoptera (Turner, 1940)
• Chrysoscota tanyphara Turner, 1940
• Ctenosia infuscata Lower, 1902
• Cyana asticta (Hampson, 1909)
• Cyana meyricki (Rothschild, 1901)
• Cyana obscura (Hampson, 1900)
• Damias catarrhoa (Meyrick, 1886)
• Damias elegans Boisduval, 1832
• Damias leptosema (Turner, 1940)
• Damias pelochroa (Hampson, 1914)
• Damias procrena (Meyrick, 1886)
• Damias scripta (Lower, 1902)
• Damias sicciodes (Hampson, 1914)
• Diduga flavicostata (Snellen, 1878)
• Eilema plana (Boisduval, 1832)
• Eilema pseudoluteola Strand, 1922
• Eutane terminalis Walker, 1854
• Eutane trimochla Turner, 1940
• Goniosema anguliscripta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Goniosema euraphota Turner, 1940
• Graphosia lophopyga (Turner, 1940)
• Graphosia stenopepla Hampson, 1914
• Gymnasura flavia (Hampson, 1900)
• Gymnasura prionosticha (Turner, 1940)
• Gymnasura saginaea (Turner, 1899)
• Halone consolatrix (Rosenstock, 1885)
• Halone coryphoea Hampson, 1914
• Halone ebaea Hampson, 1914
• Halone epiopsis Turner, 1940
• Halone interspersa (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Halone ophiodes (Meyrick, 1886)
• Halone prosenes Turner, 1940
• Halone pteridaula (Turner, 1922)
• Halone sejuncta (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Halone servilis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Halone sinuata (Wallengren, 1860)
• Halone sobria Walker, 1854
• Hectobrocha adoxa (Meyrick, 1886)
• Hectobrocha multilinea T.P. Lucas, 1890
• Hectobrocha pentacyma Meyrick, 1886
• Hectobrocha subnigra T.P. Lucas, 1890
• Heliosia charopa Turner, 1904
• Heliosia jucunda (Walker, 1854)
• Heliosia micra Hampson, 1903
• Heliosia perichares Turner, 1944
• Hemonia micrommata (Turner, 1899)
• Hemonia pallida Hampson, 1914
• Hemonia simillima Rothschild, 1913
• Hestiarcha pyrrhopa Meyrick, 1886
• Hesychopa chionora (Meyrick, 1886)
• Hesychopa molybdica Turner, 1940
• Heterallactis euchrysa Meyrick, 1886
• Heterallactis microchrysa Turner, 1940
• Heterallactis niphocephala Turner, 1940
• Heterallactis phlogozona (Turner, 1904)
• Heterallactis stenochrysa Turner, 1940
• Heterallactis trigonochrysa Turner, 1940
• Heterotropa fastosa Turner, 1940
• Hobapromea cleta (Turner, 1940)
• Hyposhada pellopis (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Ionthas ataracta Hampson, 1914
• Ionthas thirkelli (Fraser, 1961)
• Lambula obliquilinea Hampson, 1900
• Lambula phyllodes (Meyrick, 1886)
• Lambula pleuroptycha Turner, 1940
• Lambula pristina (Walker, 1866)
• Lambula transcripta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Lepista pulverulenta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Lyclene pyraula (Meyrick, 1886)
• Lyclene quadrilineata (Pagenstecher, 1886)
• Lyclene reticulata (C. Felder, 1861)
• Lyclene serratilinea (Turner, 1940)
• Lyclene structa (Walker, 1854)
• Macaduma pallicosta Rothschild, 1912
• Macaduma strongyla Turner, 1922
• Macaduma toxophora (Turner, 1899)
• Manulea dorsalis (Walker, 1866)
• Manulea replana (Lewin, 1805)
• Melastrota nigrisquamata (Swinhoe, 1901)
• Meteura cervina (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Microstola ammoscia Lower, 1920
• Notata modicus (T.P. Lucas, 1892)
• Oeonistis altica (Linnaeus, 1768)
• Oreopola athola Turner, 1940
• Padenodes cuprizona (Hampson, 1914)
• Palaeosia bicosta (Walker, 1854)
• Panachranta lirioleuca Turner, 1922
• Parascaptia biplagata Bethune-Baker, 1908
• Parascaptia dochmoschema (Turner, 1940)
• Parelictis saleuta Meyrick, 1886
• Phaeophlebosia furcifera (Walker, 1854)
• Phenacomorpha bisecta (T.P. Lucas, 1891)
• Philenora aspectalella (Walker, 1864)
• Philenora cataplex Turner, 1940
• Philenora chionastis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Philenora elegans (Butler, 1877)
• Philenora irregularis (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Philenora lunata (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Philenora malthaca Turner, 1944
• Philenora nudaridia Hampson, 1900
• Philenora omophanes (Meyrick, 1886)
• Philenora placochrysa (Turner, 1899)
• Philenora pteridopola Turner, 1922
• Philenora undulosa (Walker, 1858)
• Poliodule melanotricha Turner, 1941
• Poliodule poliotricha Turner, 1940
• Poliodule xanthodelta (Lower, 1897)
• Poliosia fragilis (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Pseudophanes melanoptera Turner, 1940
• Psilopepla mollis (T.P. Lucas, 1894)
• Scaphidriotis camptopleura (Turner, 1940)
• Scaphidriotis xylogramma Turner, 1899
• Scaptesyle dichotoma (Meyrick, 1886)
• Scaptesyle dictyota (Meyrick, 1886)
• Scaptesyle equidistans (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Scaptesyle middletoni (Turner, 1941)
• Scaptesyle monogrammaria (Walker, 1863)
• Scaptesyle tetramita Turner, 1940
• Schistophleps albida (Walker, 1865)
• Schistophleps obducta (T.P. Lucas, 1894)
• Scoliacma adrasta (Turner, 1940)
• Scoliacma bicolora (Boisduval, 1832)
• Scoliacma fasciata (Aurivillius, 1920)
• Scoliacma nana (Walker, 1854)
• Scoliacma pactolias Meyrick, 1886
• Scoliacma pasteophara Turner, 1940
• Scoliacma xuthopis Hampson, 1914
• Stenarcha stenopa (Meyrick, 1886)
• Stenoscaptia venusta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
• Symmetrodes platymelas Turner, 1940
• Symmetrodes sciocosma Meyrick, 1888
• Teratopora acosma (Turner, 1899)
• Termessa catocalina (Walker, 1865)
• Termessa congrua (Walker, 1865)
• Termessa conographa (Meyrick, 1886)
• Termessa diplographa Turner, 1899
• Termessa discrepans (Walker, 1865)
• Termessa gratiosa (Walker, 1865)
• Termessa laeta (Walker, 1856)
• Termessa nivosa (Walker, 1865)
• Termessa orthocrossa Turner, 1922
• Termessa shepherdi Newman, 1856
• Termessa xanthomelas (Lower, 1892)
• Termessa zonophanes (Meyrick, 1888)
• Teulisna bipunctata (Walker, 1866)
• Teulisna chiloides Walker, 1862
• Thallarcha albicollis (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Thallarcha catasticta Lower, 1915
• Thallarcha chrysochares Meyrick, 1886
• Thallarcha chrysochoa (Meyrick, 1886)
• Thallarcha cosmodes Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha epicela Turner, 1922
• Thallarcha epigypsa (Lower, 1902)
• Thallarcha epileuca Turner, 1922
• Thallarcha epiostola Turner, 1926
• Thallarcha eremicola Pescott, 1951
• Thallarcha erotis Turner, 1914
• Thallarcha fusa Hampson, 1900
• Thallarcha homoschema Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha isophragma (Meyrick, 1886)
• Thallarcha jocularis (Rosenstock, 1885)
• Thallarcha lechrioleuca Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha leptographa Turner, 1899
• Thallarcha levis Turner, 1943
• Thallarcha lochaga (Meyrick, 1886)
• Thallarcha macilenta (T.P. Lucas, 1894)
• Thallarcha mochlina (Turner, 1899)
• Thallarcha oblita (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Thallarcha partita (Walker, 1869)
• Thallarcha pellax Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886
• Thallarcha polystigma Turner, 1943
• Thallarcha rhaptophora Lower, 1915
• Thallarcha sparsana (Walker, 1863)
• Thallarcha staurocola (Meyrick, 1886)
• Thallarcha stramenticolor Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha trissomochla Turner, 1940
• Thallarcha zophophanes Turner, 1940
• Thermeola tasmanica Hampson, 1900
• Threnosia agraphes Turner, 1940
• Threnosia heminephes (Meyrick, 1886)
• Threnosia hypopolia Turner, 1940
• Threnosia myochroa Turner, 1940
• Thumatha fuscescens Walker, 1866
• Tigrioides alterna (Walker, 1854)
• Tigrioides nitens (Walker, 1865)
• Trischalis aureoplagiata (Rothschild, 1913)
• Trissobrocha eugraphica Turner, 1914
• Tylanthes ptochias Meyrick, 1889