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

Cossinae

  • Cossodes lyonetii White, 1841
  • Culama alpina Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Culama anthracica Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Culama australis Walker, 1856
  • Culama crepera Turner, 1939
  • Culama dasythrix Turner, 1945
  • Culama glauca Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Culama suffusca Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Macrocyttara expressa (T.P. Lucas, 1902)
  • Macrocyttara pamphaea Turner, 1945
  • Zyganisus acalanthis Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Zyganisus caliginosus (Walker, 1856)
  • Zyganisus cadigalorum Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Zyganisus fulvicollis (Gaede, 1933)
  • Zyganisus propedia Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012

Zeuzerinae

  • Brephomorpha cineraria (Turner, 1945)
  • Catoxophylla cyanauges Turner, 1945
  • Duomitus ceramica (Walker, 1865)
  • Endoxyla acontucha (Turner, 1903)
  • Endoxyla affinis (Rothschild, 1896)
  • Endoxyla amphiplecta (Turner, 1932)
  • Endoxyla angasii R. Felder, 1874
  • Endoxyla biarpiti (Tindale, 1953)
  • Endoxyla bipustulatus (Walker, 1865)
  • Endoxyla cinereus (Tepper, 1890)
  • Endoxyla columbina T.P. Lucas, 1898
  • Endoxyla coscinopa (Lower, 1901)
  • Endoxyla coscinophanes (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla coscinota (Turner, 1903)
  • Endoxyla decoratus (Swinhoe, 1892)
  • Endoxyla dictyoschema (Turner, 1915)
  • Endoxyla didymoplaca (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla duponchelii (Newman, 1856)
  • Endoxyla edwardsorum (Tepper, 1891)
  • Endoxyla eluta (Rothschild, 1903)
  • Endoxyla encalypti Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
  • Endoxyla episticha (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla eremonoma (Turner, 1906)
  • Endoxyla eumitra (Turner, 1926)
  • Endoxyla euplecta (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla euryphaea (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla grisea (Gaede, 1933)
  • Endoxyla houlberti (Oberthür, 1916)
  • Endoxyla interlucens T.P. Lucas, 1898
  • Endoxyla leucomochla (Turner, 1915)
  • Endoxyla lichenea (Rothschild, 1896)
  • Endoxyla lituratus (Donovan, 1805)
  • Endoxyla mackeri (Oberthür, 1916)
  • Endoxyla macleayi Froggatt, 1894
  • Endoxyla magnifica (Rothschild, 1896)
  • Endoxyla magniguttata (Gaede, 1933)
  • Endoxyla methychroa (Turner, 1911)
  • Endoxyla minutiscripta T.P. Lucas, 1898
  • Endoxyla nephocosma (Turner, 1902)
  • Endoxyla neuroxantha (Lower, 1900)
  • Endoxyla nubila (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla opposita (Walker, 1865)
  • Endoxyla perigypsa (Lower, 1915)
  • Endoxyla phaeocosma (Turner, 1911)
  • Endoxyla polyplecta (Turner, 1932)
  • Endoxyla polyploca (Turner, 1911)
  • Endoxyla pulchra (Rothschild, 1896)
  • Endoxyla punctifimbria (Walker, 1865)
  • Endoxyla reticulosa (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla secta T.P. Lucas, 1898
  • Endoxyla sordida (Rothschild, 1896)
  • Endoxyla stenoptila (Turner, 1911)
  • Endoxyla tanyctena (Turner, 1945)
  • Endoxyla tenebrifer (Walker, 1865)
  • Endoxyla tigrinus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
  • Endoxyla turneri (Roepke, 1955)
  • Endoxyla vittata (Walker, 1856)
  • Endoxyla zophoplecta (Turner, 1902)
  • Endoxyla zophospila (Turner, 1945)
  • Skeletophyllon tempestua (T.P. Lucas, 1898)
  • Sympycnodes adrienneae Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Sympycnodes arachnophora (Turner, 1945)
  • Sympycnodes digitata Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Sympycnodes dunnorum Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Sympycnodes epicycla (Turner, 1945)
  • Sympycnodes interstincta Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Sympycnodes rhaptodes Turner, 1942
  • Sympycnodes salterra Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Sympycnodes tripartita (T.P. Lucas, 1892)
  • Sympycnodes uptoni Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
  • Trismelasmos ardzhuna Yakovlev, 2011
  • Trismelasmos donovani (Rothschild, 1897)
  • Trismelasmos tectorius (Swinhoe, 1901)
  • Xyleutes hyphinoe (Cramer, 1777)
  • Xyleutes persona (Le Guillou, 1841)
  • Orientozeuzera aeglospila (Turner, 1915)
  • Orientozeuzera quieta (Turner, 1932)


The following species belongs to the subfamily Zeuzerinae, but has not been assigned to a genus yet. Given here is the original name given to the species when it was first described:

  • Eudoxyla cineraria Illidge, 1898

Unplaced to Subfamily

  • Archaeoses magicosema (Meyrick, 1936)
  • Archaeoses pentasema (Lower, 1915)
  • Archaeoses polygrapha (Lower, 1893)
  • Brevicyttara cyclospila (Turner, 1945)
  • Charmoses dumigani Turner, 1932
  • Eusthenica treicleiota (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Idioses littleri Turner, 1927
  • Ptilomacra senex Walker, 1855
  • Kallies, A. & D.J. Hilton, 2012: Revision of Cossinae and small Zeuzerinae from Australia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Zootaxa 3454: 1-62. Abstract: [1].
  • Yakovlev, R.V., 2011: Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 66: 1-129.
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