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List of Lepidoptera of Easter Island
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The Lepidoptera of Easter Island consist of the butterflies and moths recorded from Easter Island.
Butterflies
[edit]Nymphalidae
[edit]- Hypolimnas bolina otaheitae (C. Felder, 1862)
- Vanessa carye (Hübner, 1812)
Moths
[edit]Cosmopterigidae
[edit]- Asymphorodes trichogramma (J.F.G. Clarke, 1986)
Gelechiidae
[edit]- Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)
Geometridae
[edit]- Gymnoscelis concinna (Swinhoe, 1902)
Noctuidae
[edit]- Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
- Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
- Ctenoplusia albostriata (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
Pterophoridae
[edit]- Stenoptilia species
Pyralidae
[edit]- Ephestia cautella (Walker, 1863)
- Hymenia recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
Tineidae
[edit]- Opogona aurisquamosa (Butler, 1881)
Tortricidae
[edit]- Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847)
Yponomeutidae
[edit]- Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
[edit]- 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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