List of Lepidoptera of Nauru

Location of Nauru

The Lepidoptera of Nauru consists of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Nauru, an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of four butterfly species present in Nauru, none of which is endemic. The number of moth species is unknown.

## Butterflies

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### Hesperiidae

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* Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

### Lycaenidae

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* Petrelaea tombugensis (Rober, 1886)

### Nymphalidae

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* Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)

## Moths

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### Choreutidae

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* Choreutis orthogona (Meyrick, 1886)

### Crambidae

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* Diaphania indica (Sanders, 1851)
* Glyphodes multilinealis Kenrick, 1907
* Parotis suralis (Lederer, 1863)
* Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius 1775)

### Elachistidae

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* Ethmia nigroapicella (Saalmüller 1880)

### Erebidae

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* Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius, 1781)
* Eublemma anachoresis (Wallgreen, 1863)
* Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Mocis trifasciata (Stephens 1829)

### Gelechiidae

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* Trissodoris honorariella (Walsingham, 1907)

### Pterophoridae

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* Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller 1873)
* Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius 1794)
* Sphenarches anisodactylus  (Walker 1864)

### Pyralidae

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* Etiella zinckenella  (Treitschke 1832)

### Noctuidae

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* ?Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
* Chrysodeixis eriosoma  (Doubleday 1843)
* Spodoptera mauritia  (Boisduval 1833)
* Stictoptera cucullioides  Guenée 1852

### Nolidae

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* Westermannia superba (Hübner, 1823)

### Sphingidae

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* Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)

### Tineidae

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* Erechthias penicillata (Swezey, 1909)

### Tortricidae

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* Cryptophlebia ombrodelta (Lower, 1898)

## External links

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* First Records of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) from the Republic of Nauru
* North, A. J., 1903. Notes on the zoology of Paanopa or Ocean Island and Nauru or Pleasant Island, Gilbert Group. Records of the Australian Museum 5(1): 1–15.; 14 April 1903
* Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of REPUBLIC OF NAURU

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List of butterflies of Oceania

Sovereign states|

* Australia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand|

* Cook Islands
* Niue

Dependencies
and other territories|

* American Samoa
* Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Easter Island
* French Polynesia
* Guam
* Hawaii
* New Caledonia
* Norfolk Island
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Pitcairn Islands
* Tokelau
* Wallis and Futuna

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List of moths of Oceania

Sovereign states|

* Australia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand|

* Cook Islands
* Niue

Dependencies
and other territories|

* American Samoa
* Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Easter Island
* French Polynesia
* Guam
* Hawaii
* New Caledonia
* Norfolk Island
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Pitcairn Islands
* Tokelau
* Wallis and Futuna

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