List of Lepidoptera of Greenland explained

Lepidoptera of Greenland consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Greenland.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 52 Lepidoptera species present in Greenland.

Butterflies

Lycaenidae

• Lycaena phlaeas feildeni (McLachlan, 1878)
• Agriades glandon aquilina (Staudinger, 1901)

Nymphalidae

• Boloria polaris (Boisduval, [1828])
• Boloria chariclea (Schneider, 1794)

Pieridae

• Colias hecla Lefèbvre, 1836

Moths

Arctiidae

• Pararctia lapponica hyperborea (Curtis, 1835)

Coleophoridae

• Coleophora alticolella Zeller, 1849
• Coleophora glaucicolella Wood, 1892

Crambidae

• Gesneria centuriella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Udea torvalis (Möschler, 1864)
• Tehama bonifatella (Hulst, 1887)

Gelechiidae

• Bryotropha similis (Stainton, 1854)
• Gnorimoschema valesiella (Staudinger, 1877)
• Gnorimoschema vibei Wolff, 1964
• Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)

Geometridae

• Entephria polata (Duponchel, 1831)
• Eupithecia gelidata Möschler, 1860
• Eupithecia pusillata Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
• Operophtera bruceata (Hulst, 1886)
• Psychophora sabini (Kirby, 1824)

Gracillariidae

• ?Phyllonorycter junoniella (Zeller, 1846)

Lymantriidae

• Gynaephora groenlandica (Wocke, 1874)

Noctuidae

• Apamea zeta (Treitschke, 1825)
• Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Eurois occulta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euxoa adumbrata drewseni (Staudinger, 1857)
• Euxoa westermanni (Staudinger, 1857)
• Lasionycta leucocycla (Staudinger, 1857)
• Mniotype adusta (Esper, 1790)
• Mniotype sommeri (Lefebvre, 1836)
• Polia richardsoni (Curtis, 1835)
• Rhyacia quadrangula (Zetterstedt, 1839)
• Spaelotis clandestina (Harris, 1841)
• Sympistis lapponica (Thunberg, 1791)
• Sympistis nigrita Staudinger, 1857
• Syngrapha borea (Aurivillius, 1890)
• Syngrapha parilis (Hübner, 1809)
• Syngrapha u-aureum (Guenée, 1852)

Oecophoridae

• Agonopterix antennariella Clarke, 1941
• Agonopterix heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849)

Plutellidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Rhigognostis senilella (Zetterstedt, 1839)

Pterophoridae

• Stenoptilia mengeli Fernald, 1898

Pyralidae

• Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, [1813])
• Pyla fusca (Haworth, 1811)

Scythrididae

• Scythris noricella (Zeller, 1843)

Tortricidae

• Acleris arcticana (Guenée, 1845)
• Acleris laterana (Fabricius, 1794)
• Epinotia trigonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Olethreutes mengelana (Fernald, 1894)
• Olethreutes inquietana (Walker, 1863)

References

• "The Lepidoptera of Greenland; Some Geographic Considerations"
• Cabdirect.org: "Observations on Lepidoptera in south and southwest Greenland"