List of Lepidoptera of Bermuda

Location of Bermuda

Lepidoptera of Bermuda consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the island of Bermuda.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 183 Lepidoptera species present in Bermuda.

## Butterflies

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### Hesperiidae

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* Calpodes ethlius (Stoll, [1782])
* Hylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)

### Nymphalidae

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* Agraulis vanillae nigrior Michener, 1942
* Danaus gilippus berenice (Cramer, 1779)
* Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Junonia coenia bergi Avinoff, 1926
* Nymphalis antiopa (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Vanessa atalanta rubria (Fruhstorfer, 1909)
* Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Vanessa virginiensis (Drury, 1773)

### Papilionidae

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* Papilio cresphontes Cramer, [1777]

### Pieridae

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* Colias eurytheme Boisduval, 1852
* Colias philodice Godart, 1819
* Eurema lisa Boisduval & LeConte (1829)
* Phoebis sennae eubule (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758)

## Moths

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### Arctiidae

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* Cisseps fulvicollis (Hübner, [1818])
* Pyrrharctia isabella (JE Smith, 1797)
* Utetheisa bella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Blastobasidae

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* Holcocera guilandinae (Busck, 1900)

### Bucculatricidae

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* Bucculatrix rhombophora Meyrick, 1926

### Coleophoridae

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* Batrachedra decoctor bermudensis Hodges, (1966)
* Coleophora anisota Meyrick, 1927
* Coleophora texanella Chambers, 1878

### Cosmopterigidae

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* Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)
* Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875
* Cosmopterix sp. near minutella Bett.
* Pyroderces badia (Hodges, 1962)

### Crambidae

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* Achyra rantalis (Guenée, 1854)
* Argyria lacteella (Fabricius, 1794)
* Ategumia ebulealis (Guenee, 1854)
* Crambus quinquareatus Zeller, 1877
* Diacme elealis (Walker, 1859)
* Diaphania hyalinata (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Diaphania nitidalis (Stoll, 1781)
* Eustixia pupula Hübner, 1823
* Glyphodes sibillalis Walker, 1859
* Hellula rogatalis (Hulst, 1886)
* Herpetogramma bermudalis (Dyar, 1915)
* Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794)
* Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
* Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)
* Nomophila nearctica Munroe, 1973
* Oenobotys invinacealis Ferguson, Hilburn & Wright, 1991
* Oenobotys vinotinctalis (Hampson, 1895)
* Palpita kimballi Munroe, 1959
* Penestola bufalis (Guenée, 1854)
* Pyrausta onythesalis (Walker, 1859)
* Rhectocraspeda periusalis (Walker, 1859)
* Scoparia jonesalis Dyar, 1915
* Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Sufetula diminutalis (Walker, 1866)
* Syngamia florella (Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1781)
* Terastia meticulosalis Guenee, 1854
* Udea rubigalis (Guenée, 1854)
* Uresiphita reversalis (Guenée, 1854)

### Elachistidae

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* Elachista species

### Gelechiidae

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* Dichomeris acuminata (Staudinger, in Kalchberg, 1876)
* Keiferia lycopersicella (Walsingham, 1897)
* Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
* Polyhymno sp. probably luteostrigella Chambers, 1874
* Recurvaria annulicornis (Walsingham, 1897)
* Stegasta bosqueella (Chambers, 1875)
* Symmetrischema striatella (Murtfeldt, 1900)
* Taygete parvella (Fabricius, 1794)

### Geometridae

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* Costaconvexa centrostrigaria (Wollaston, 1858)
* Cyclophora myrtaria (Guenée, 1857)
* Disclisioprocta stellata (Guenée, [1858])
* Leptostales crossii (Hulst, 1900)
* Leptostales laevitaria (Geyer, 1837)
* Leptostales pannaria (Guenée, [1858])
* Macaria ochrifascia (Warren, 1897)
* Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
* Pleuroprucha asthenaria (Walker, 1861)
* Pleuroprucha insulsaria (Guenée, 1857)
* Synchlora frondaria Guenée, 1857

### Gracillariidae

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* Caloptilia perseae (Busck, 1920)
* Caloptilia rhoifoliella (Chambers, 1876)

### Hyblaeidae

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* Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777)

### Lyonetiidae

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* Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

### Momphidae

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* Mompha circumscriptella (Zeller, 1873)

### Noctuidae

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* Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
* Agrotis malefida Guenée, 1852
* Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
* Anicla infecta (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
* Anomis editrix (Guenée, 1852)
* Anomis erosa Hübner, 1821
* Anomis flava fimbriago (Stephens, 1829)
* Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner, 1818
* Argyrogramma verruca (Fabricius, 1794)
* Ascalapha odorata (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Callopistria floridensis (Guenée, 1852)
* Chrysodeixis includens (Walker, 1858)
* Condica circuita (Guenée, 1852) (possible misidentification)
* Condica mobilis (Walker, 1857)
* Condica sutor (Guenée, 1852)
* Elaphria nucicolora (Guenee, 1852)
* Eumestleta recta (Guenée, 1852)
* Feltia subterranea (Fabricius, 1794)
* Galgula partita Guenée, 1852
* Garella nilotica (Rogenhofer, 1881)
* Helicoverpa zea (Boddie, 1850)
* Heliothis virescens (Fabricius, 1777)
* Hypena minualis (Guénée, 1854)
* Hypena scabra (Fabricius, 1798)
* Leucania subpunctata (Harvey, 1875)
* Litoprosopus futilis (Grote & Robinson, 1868)
* Megalographa biloba (Stephens, 1830)
* Melipotis acontioides (Guenée, 1852)
* Melipotis famelica (Guenée, 1852)
* Mocis disseverans (Walker, 1858)
* Mocis latipes (Guenée, 1852)
* Mocis marcida (Guenée, 1852)
* Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
* Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
* Rachiplusia ou (Guenée, 1852)
* Schrankia macula (Druce, 1891)
* Spodoptera dolichos (Fabricius, 1794)
* Spodoptera eridania (Stoll, 1782)
* Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
* Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797)
* Spodoptera ornithogalli (Guenée, 1852)
* Tetanolita mynesalis inaequalis Ferguson, Hilburn & Wright, 1991
* Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1800-1803)
* Zale fictilis (Guenée, 1852)
* Zale lunata (Drury, 1773)

### Plutellidae

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* Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Pterophoridae

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* Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)
* Lioptilodes albistriolatus (Zeller, 1877)
* Oidaematophorus lienigianus (Zeller, 1852)
* Stenoptilodes brevipennis (Zeller, 1874)

### Pyralidae

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* Achroia grisella (Fabricius, 1794)
* Anagasta kuehniella (Zeller, 1879)
* Atheloca subrufella (Hulst, 1887)
* Cadra cautella (Walker, 1863)
* Cassiana malacella Dyar, 1914
* Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Millière, 1867)
* Elasmopalpus lignosellus Zeller, 1848
* Ephestiodes indentella (Dyar, 1915)
* Fundella ignobilis Heinrich, 1945
* Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hypargyria definitella (Zeller, 1881)
* Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854)
* Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, [1813])
* Pyralis farinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854

### Sphingidae

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* Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
* Erinnyis ello (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Manduca sexta (Linnaeus, 1763)
* Pseudosphinx tetrio (Linnaeus, 1771)
* Xylophanes tersa (Linnaeus, 1771)

### Tineidae

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* Erechthias minuscula (Walsingham, 1897)
* Lepyrotica scardamyctis Meyrick, 1921
* Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Niditinea praeumbrata (Meyrick, 1919)
* Oenoe euphrantis Meyrick, 1927
* Opogona sacchari Bojer, 1856
* Pompostolella charipepla (Meyrick, 1927)
* Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)
* Protodarcia haliplancta (Meyrick, 1927)
* Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
* Tinea minutella Fabricius, 1794
* Tinea pellionella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Tineola bisselliella (Hummel, 1823)
* Xystrologa antipathetica (Forbes, 1931)
* A Monopis species

### Tortricidae

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* Aethes seriatana (Zeller, 1875)
* Argyrotaenia velutinana (Walker, 1863)
* Bactra verutana Zeller, 1875
* Coniostola procellosa (Meyrick, 1917)
* Crocidosema lantana Busck, 1910
* Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
* Endothenia hebesana (Walker, 1863)
* Epiblema strenuana (Walker, 1863)
* Episimus argutanus (Clemens, 1860)
* Episimus tyrius Heinrich, 1923
* Episimus species
* Grapholitini species
* Sparganothis sulfureana (Clemens, 1860)
* Strepsicrates smithiana Walsingham, 1892

### Yponomeutidae

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* Yponomeuta calcarata Meyrick, 1924

## References

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* Ferguson, D.C.; Hilburn, D.J.; Wright, B. (1991). "The Lepidoptera of Bermuda: Their Food Plants, Biogeography, and Means of Dispersal". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 123: 3–105. doi:10.4039/entm123158fv.