List of Lepidoptera of Guadeloupe explained

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

According to a recent estimate, there are about 398 moth species and 58 butterfly species present in Guadeloupe.

Butterflies

Papilionidae

• Battus polydamas neodamas (Lucas, 1852)
• Appias drusilla boydi Comstock, 1943

Hesperiidae

• Proteides mercurius angasi Godman & Salvin, 1884
• Epargyreus zestos zestos (Geyer, 1832)
• Polygonus leo leo (Gmelin, 1790)
• Polygonus manueli punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948
• Urbanus proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872)
• Urbanus dorantes obscurus (Hewitson, 1867)
• Astraptes talus (Cramer, 1777)
• Astraptes anaphus anusis (Godman & Salvin, 1896)
• Achlyodes mithridates minor Comstock, 1944
• Ephyriades arcas arcas (Drury, 1773)
• Ephyriades brunnea dominicensis Bell & Comstock, 1948
• Pyrgus oileus oileus (Linné, 1767)
• Hylephila phyleus phyleus (Drury, 1773)
• Wallengrenia ophites (Mabille, 1878)
• Calpodes ethlius (Stoll, 1782)
• Panoquina panoquinoides panoquinoides Skinner, 1891
• Panoquina lucas woodruffi Watson, 1937
• Panoquina sylvicola (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)
• Nyctelius nyctelius agari (Dillon, 1947)

Pieridae

• Ascia monuste f. virginia (Godart, 1819)
• Eurema daira palmira (Poey, 1846)
• Eurema lisa euterpe (Ménétriès, 1832)
• Eurema leuce antillarum Hall, 1936
• Eurema venusta emanona Dillon, 1947
• Eurema nisevemanoma (Dillon, 1947)
• Eurema elathea elathea (Cramer, 1777)
• Anteos maerula (Fabricius, 1775)
• Phoebis agarithe (Boisduval, 1836)
• Phoebis sennae marcellina (Cramer, 1777)
• Rhabdodryas trite watsoni (F. M. Brown, 1929)
• Aphrissa statira (Cramer, 1777)

Nymphalidae

• Danaus plexippus megalippe (Hübner, 1826)
• Anaea minor Hall, 1936
• Marpesia petreus (Cramer, 1776)
• Historis odius orion (Fabricius 1775)
• Hypolimnas misippus (Linné, 1764)
• Junonia genoveva (Cramer, 1782)
• Junonia evarete (Stoll, 1782)
• Anartia jatrophae (Linné, 1763)
• Biblis hyperia (Cramer, 1782)
• Vanessa cardui (Linné, 1758)
• Dryas iulia dominicana (Hall, 1917)
• Agraulis vanillae insularis Maynard, 1889

Lycaenidae

• Allosmaitia piplea (Godman & Salvin, 1896)
• Chlorostrymon simaethis (Drury, 1773)
• Chlorostrymon lalitae Brévignon, 2000
• Ministrymon azia (Hewitson, 1873)
• Strymon bubastus ponce (Comstock & Huntington, 1943)
• Strymon columella (Fabricius, 1793)
• Strymon acis (Drury, 1773)
• Electrostrymon angerona (Godman & Salvin, 1896)
• Electrostrymon angelia karukera Brévignon, 2000
• Leptotes cassius chadwicki (Comstock & Huntington, 1943)
• Hemiargus hanno watsoni (Comstock & Huntington, 1943)
• Cyclargus thomasi woodruffi (Comstock & Huntington, 1943)

Moths

Arctiidae

• Antichloris toddi Chalumeau & Howden, 1978
• Cosmosoma demantria Druce, 1895
• Ecpantheria guadulpensis (Oberthur, 1881)
• Empyreuma affinis Rotschild, 1912
• Epicepsis dominicensis Rotschild, 1911
• Eucereon cyneburge betzi Chalumeau & Howden, 1978
• Eucereon imriei Druce, 1884
• Eucereon rogersi Druce, 1884
• Eupseudosoma involutum (Sepp, [1855])
• Halysidota leda (Druce, 1890)
• Horama panthalon (Fabricius, 1793)
• Horama pretus (Cramer, 1777)
• Hyalurga vinosa (Drury, [1773])
• Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, 1777)
• Napata rabdonota Hampson, 1898
• Nyridela chalciope Hübner, 1898
• Opharus bimaculata (Dewitz, 1877)
• Pachydota albiceps (Walker, 1856)
• Pheia daphaena Hampson, 1898
• Pseudamastus alsa alsa (Druce, 1890)
• Pseudamastus alsa lalannei Toulgoët, 1985
• Syntomeida epilais epilais (Walker, 1954)
• Syntomeida melanthus merletti Chalumeau & Howden, 1978
• Utetheisa ornatrix (Linné, 1758)

Cossidae

• Givera species

Notodontidae

• Nystalea nyseus (Cramer, 1775)
• Nystalea ebalea (Stoll, 1780)
• Proalymiotis aequipars (Walker, 1858)
• Rhuda focula (Stoll, 1780)
• Malocampa punctata (Stoll, 1780)
• Rifargia occulta Schaus, 1905
• Disphragis cubana (Grote, 1865)
• Hemiceras domingonis Dyar, 1908
• Rhuda focula (Stoll, 1780)
• Dasylophia lucia Schaus, 1901

Sphingidae

• Agrius cingulatus (Fabricius, 1775)
• Cocytius antaeus (Drury, 1773)
• Cocytius duponchel (Poey, 1832)
• Neococytius cluentius (Cramer, 1779)
• Manduca rustica harterti (Rotschild, 1894)
• Manduca sexta luciae (Johanssen, 1764)
• Protambulyx strigilis (Linné, 1771)
• Pseudosphinx tetrio (Linné, 1771)
• Erinnyis lassauxi (Boisduval, 1859)
• Erinnyis ello (Linné, 1758)
• Erinnyis alope (Drury, 1773)
• Erinnyis obscura (Fabricius, 1775)
• Erinnyis oenotrus (Stoll, 1780)
• Erinnyis crameri (Schauss, 1898)
• Pachylia ficus (Linné, 1758)
• Pachylia syces syces (Hübner, 1822)
• Enyo lugubris (Linné, 1771)
• Enyo ocypete (Linné, 1758)
• Madoryx oiclus (Cramer, 1779)
• Perigonia lusca (Fabricius, 1777)
• Aellopos tantalus (Linné, 1758)
• Aellopos fadus (Cramer, 1775)
• Eumorpha vitis (Linné, 1758)
• Eumorpha fasciatus (Sulzer, 1776)
• Eumorpha labruscae (Linné, 1758)
• Eumorpha obliquus guadelupensis Chalumeau & Delplanque, 1974
• Xylophanes tersa (Linné, 1771)
• Xylophanes pluto (Fabricius, 1777)
• Xylophanes chiron necchus (Cramer, 1779)
• Hyles lineata (Fabricius, 1775)

Geometridae

• Acratodes noctuata Guenée, 1858
• Acratodes praepeditaria (Möschler, 1890)
• Ametris nitocris (Cramer, 1780)
• Anisodes ordinata rubrior Herbulot, 1988
• Anisodes urcearia Guenée, 1858
• Chloropteryx glauciptera (Hampson, 1895)
• Cyclomia mopsaria Guenée, 1858
• Cyclophora nanaria (Walker, 1861)
• Disclisioprocta stellata (Guenée, 1857)
• Drepanodes ephyrata Guenée, 1857
• Eois tegularia (Guenée, 1857)
• Epimecis detexta detexta (Walker, 1860)
• Epimecis detexta leduchatae Herbulot, in litt
• Erastria decrepitaria (Hübner, 1823)
• Erosina hyberniata Guenée 1857
• Eueana simplaria Herbulot, 1986
• Euphyia perturbata (Walker, 1862)
• Eupithecia acidalioides (Kaye, 1901)
• Eupithecia carribeana Herbulot, 1986
• Eupithecia comes Herbulot, 1986
• Eupithecia lecerfiata Herbulot, 1984
• Eupithecia velutipennis Herbulot, 1986
• Hydata insatisfacta Herbulot, 1988
• Leptocnenopsis tatochorda Prout, 1916
• Lobocleta indecora Warren, 1900
• Lobocleta martinicensis Herbulot, 1985
• Lobocleta tricuspida Herbulot, 1985
• Macrosema immaculata (Warren, 1897)
• Malanolophia lalanneae Herbulot, 1985
• Melanchroia chephise (Stoll, 1782)
• Melanolophia ludovici Herbulot, 1995
• Melanolophia rufimontis Herbulot, 1986
• Nemoria rectilinea (Warren, 1906)
• Nepheloleuca complicata (Guenée, 1857)
• Nepheloleuca politia (Cramer, 1777)
• Obila defensata (Walker, 1862)
• Oenoptila nigrilineata venusta Warren, 1900
• Oospila confundaria (Möschler, 1890)
• Oxydia brevipecten Herbulot, 1985
• Oxydia lalanneorum Herbulot, 1985
• Oxydia vesulia alternata (Warren, 1905)
• Pero astapa (Druce, 1892)
• Pero lignata (Warren, 1897)
• Pero rectisectaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Phrudocentra centrifugaria impunctata (Warren, 1909)
• Phrygionis cruorata Warren, 1905
• Phrygionis dominica Prout, 1933
• Pleuroplucha molitaria guadelupa Herbulot, 1995
• Psaliodes subochreofusa Herbulot, 1988
• Pterocypha lezardata Herbulot, 1988
• Ptychamalia perlata nigricostata (Warren, 1907)
• Scelolophia terminata fragmentata (Warren, 1904)
• Scopula umbilicata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Semaeopus caecaria distinctata (Warren, 1900)
• Semaeopus indignaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Semaeopus subrubra dominicana Prout, 1918
• Semaeopus vincentii luciae Prout, 1938
• Semiothisa praelongata bruni Herbulot, 1985
• Semiothisa everiata (Guenée, 1857)
• Sericoptera mahometaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
• Sphacelodes brunneata Warren, 1907
• Synchlora cupedinaria guadelupensis Herbulot, 1988
• Synchlora frondaria Guenée, 1857
• Synchlora herbaria intacta (Warren, 1905)
• Synchlora isolata (Warren, 1900)
• Tricentrogyna crocantha Herbulot, 1988
• Tricentrogyna rubricosta (Hampson, 1895)
• Xanthorhoe picticolor Warren, 1990

Psychidae

• Oiketicus kirbyi Guilding, 1827

Yponomeutidae

• Atteva aurea (Fitch, 1856)

Noctuidae

• Acroria terens (Walker, 1857)
• Achaea ablunaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Agrapha oxygramma (Geyer, 1832)
• Agrotis malefida Guenée, 1852
• Agrotis repleta Walker, 1857
• Agrotis subterranea (Fabricius, 1794)
• Alabama argillacea (Hübner, 1823)
• Amyna octo (Guenée, 1852)
• Anicla infecta (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
• Anomis editrix (Guenée, 1852)
• Anomis illita Guenée, 1852
• Anomis impasta Guenée, 1852
• Antachara diminuta (Guenée, 1852)
• Antiblemma concinnula (Walker, 1865)
• Antiblemma imitans (Walker, 1858)
• Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner, 1818
• Argyrogramma basigera (Walker, 1865)
• Argyrogramma verruca (Fabricius, 1794)
• Ascalapha odorata (Linné, 1758)
• Autoplusia illustrata (Guenée, 1852)
• Azeta repugnalis (Hübner, 1825)
• Bagisara repanda (Fabricius, 1793)
• Baniana ostia Druce, 1898
• Baniana veluticollis Hampson, 1898
• Bleptina araealis (Hampson, 1901)
• Bleptina hydrillalis Guenée, 1854
• Callopistria floridensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Callopistria mexicana Druce, 1889
• Catabena vitrina (Walker 1857)
• Caularis undulans Walker, 1857
• Characoma nilotica (Rogenhofer, 1881)
• Coenipeta bibitrix (Hübner, 1823)
• Coenobela paucula (Walker, 1858)
• Collomena filifera (Walker, 1857)
• Concana mundissima Walker, 1857
• Condica albigera (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica circuita (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica concisa (Walker, 1856)
• Condica cupentia (Cramer, 1779)
• Condica mobilis (Walker, 1856)
• Condica sutor (Guénée, 1852)
• Condica vacillans (Walker, 1858)
• Cropia infusa (Walker, 1857)
• Cydosia nobilitella (Cramer, 1779)
• Diphthera festiva (Fabricius, 1775)
• Dipterygia ordinarius (Butler, 1879)
• Dipterygia pallida (Dognin, 1907)
• Dyomyx jugator Le Duchat d'Aubigny, 1992
• Elaphria agrotina (Guenée, 1852)
• Elaphria chalcedonia (Hübner, 1808)
• Elaphria deltoides (Möschler, 1880)
• Elaphria devara (Druce, 1898)
• Elaphria nucicolora (Guenée, 1852)
• Ephyrodes cacata Guenée, 1852
• Epidromia pannosa Guenée, 1852
• Eriopyga herbuloti Le Duchat d'Aubigny, 1992
• Eublemma cinnamomea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868)
• Eublemma recta (Guenée, 1852)
• Eudocima materna (Linné, 1767)
• Eulepidotis addens (Walker, 1858)
• Eulepidotis modestula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Eulepidotis superior (Guenée, 1852)
• Eutelia ablatrix (Guenée, 1852)
• Eutelia piratica Schaus, 1940
• Feltia subterranea (Fabricius, 1794)
• Glympis eubolialis (Walker, 1865)
• Gonodes liquida (Möschler, 1886)
• Gonodonta bidens Geyer, 1832
• Gonodonta incurva (Sepp, 1840)
• Gonodonta nutrix (Stoll, 1780)
• Gonodonta parens Guenée, 1852
• Gonodonta sicheas (Cramer, 1777)
• Helicoverpa zea (Boddie, 1850)
• Heliothis subflexa (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliothis virescens (Fabricius, 1777)
• Hemeroblemma opigena (Drury, 1773)
• Hemeroplanis scopulepes Haworth, 1809
• Hemicephalis characteria (Stoll, 1790)
• Heripyga herbuloti Duchat d'Aubigny Marti et al., 2000
• Hormoschista latipalpis (Walker, 1858)
• Hypena abjuralis Walker, 1858
• Hypena androna Druce, 1890
• Hypena loxo Druce, 1890
• Hypena minualis Guenée, 1854
• Hypena porrectalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Hypena vetustalis Guenée, 1854
• Hypocala andremona (Stoll, 1781)
• Isogona scindens (Walker, 1858)
• Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
• Kakopoda progenies (Guenée, 1852)
• Lascoria orneodalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Lesmone cinerea (Butler, 1878)
• Lesmone formularis (Geyer, 1837)
• Lesmone hinna (Geyer, 1837)
• Lesmone porcia (Stoll, 1790)
• Letis hypnois (Hübner, 1821)
• Letis mycerina (Cramer, 1777)
• Leucania chejela (Schaus, 1921)
• Leucania dorsalis Walker, 1856
• Leucania humidicola Guenée, 1852
• Leucania inconspicua Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
• Leucania juncicola Guenée, 1852
• Leucania latiuscula Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
• Leucania senescens Möschler, 1890
• Leucania subpunctata (Harvey, 1875)
• Litoprosopus bahamensis Hampson, 1926
• Lophophora clanymoides Möschler, 1890
• Magusa orbifera (Walker, 1857)
• Makapta varians (Hampson, 1926)
• Mamestra soligena Möschler, 1886
• Massala asema Hampson, 1926
• Massala obvertens (Walker, 1858)
• Mastigophorus latipennis Herrich-Schäffer, 1870
• Melipotis acontioides (Guenée, 1852)
• Melipotis contorta (Guenée, 1852)
• Melipotis famelica (Guenée, 1852)
• Melipotis famelica (Guenée, 1852)
• Melipotis fasciolaris (Hübner, 1825)
• Melipotis goniosema (Hampson, 1926)
• Melipotis januaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Melipotis ochrodes (Guenée, 1852)
• Metalectra analis Schaus, 1916
• Metalectra praecisalis Hübner, 1823
• Metallata absumens (Walker, 1862)
• Metria decessa (Walker, 1857)
• Metria permixta (Schaus, 1911)
• Micrathetis triplex (Walker, 1857)
• Mocis latipes (Guenée, 1852)
• Mocis megas (Guenée, 1852)
• Mocis repanda (Fabricius, 1794)
• Motya abseuzalis Walker, 1859
• Motya flotsama (Dyar, 1914)
• Mouralia tinctoides (Guenée, 1852)
• Nagara clara (Stoll, 1782)
• Neogalea sunia (Guenée, 1852)
• Neophaenis meterythra Hampson, 1908
• Neostictoptera species
• Nola bistriga (Möschler, 1890)
• Obrima pyraloides Walker, 1856
• Ommatochila mundula (Zeller, 1872)
• Ophisma tropicalis Guenée, 1852
• Orthodes vesquesa (Dyar, 1913)
• Paectes arcigera (Guenée, 1852)
• Paectes canofusa (Hampson, 1898)
• Paectes obrotunda (Guenée, 1852)
• Palthis angustipennis Schaus, 1916
• Panula inconstans Guenée, 1852
• Parachabora abydas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Paratrachea species
• Perasia garnoti (Guenée, 1852)
• Peteroma carilla Schaus, 1901
• Phalaenophana eudorealis (Guenée, 1854)
• Phlyctaina irrigualis Möschler, 1890
• Phyprosopus tristriga (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868)
• Physula albipunctilla Schaus, 1916
• Plusiodonta thomae Guenée, 1852
• Ponometia exigua (Fabricius, 1793)
• Pseudaletia species
• Pseudaletia sequax Franclemont, 1951
• Pseudoplusia includens (Walker, 1857)
• Ptichodes immunis (Guenée, 1852)
• Radara nealcesalis (Walker, 1859)
• Radara tauralis (Walker, 1865)
• Rejectaria karukerensis Lalanne-Cassou, 1992
• Remigia latipes Guenée, 1852
• Remigia repanda (Fabricius, 1794)
• Renodes aequalis (Walker, 1865)
• Renodes liturata (Walker, 1865)
• Rhamnocampa species
• Rivula pusilla Möschler, 1890
• Selenisa sueroides (Guenée, 1852)
• Speocropia scriptura (Walker, 1858)
• Spodoptera albula (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera androgea (Stoll, 1782)
• Spodoptera dolichos (Fabricius, 1794)
• Spodoptera eridania (Stoll, 1782)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797)
• Spodoptera latifascia (Walker, 1856)
• Spodoptera ornithogalli (Guenée, 1852)
• Spodoptera sunia Malausa & Kermarrec, 1982
• Spragueia margana (Fabricius, 1794)
• Spragueia perstructana (Walker, 1865)
• Syllectra congemmalis Hübner, 1823
• Syllectra erycata (Cramer, 1780)
• Synalamis toulgoeti Lalanne-Cassou, 1992
• Tandilia rodea (Schaus, 1894)
• Tetanolita borgesalis (Walker, 1859)
• Thioptera nigrofimbria (Guenée, 1852)
• Thursania grandirenalis Schaus, 1916
• Toxonprucha diffundens (Walker, 1858)
• Tripudia luda (Druce, 1898)
• Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller, 1874)
• Xanthopastis timais (Cramer, [1780])
• Zale erilda Schaus, 1940
• Zale fictilis (Guenée, 1852)
• Zale peruncta (Guenée, 1852)
• Zale strigimacula (Guenée, 1852)

Pterophoridae

• Adaina ambrosiae (Murtfeldt, 1880)
• Adaina bipunctata (Möschler, 1890)
• Adaina ipomoeae Bigot & Etienne, 2009
• Exelastis montischristi (Walsingham, 1897)
• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)
• Megalorrhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius, 1794)
• Ochyrotica fasciata Walsingham, 1891
• Oidaematophorus devriesi Landry & Gielis, 1992
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilodes brevipennis (Zeller, 1874)

Pyralidae

• Aethiophysa falcatalis (Hampson, 1895)
• Argyria lacteella (Fabricius, 1794)
• Azochis euvexalis (Möschler, 1890)
• Bonchis munitalis (Lederer, 1863)
• Caphys bilineata (Stoll, [1781])
• Cliniodes euphrosinalis Möschler, 1886
• Condylorrhiza vestigialis (Guenée, 1854)
• Cryptobotys zoilusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Desmia flebilialis (Guenée, 1854)
• Desmia funeralis (Hübner, 1796)
• Diaphania costata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Diaphania elegans (Möschler, 1890)
• Diaphania hyalinata (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Epicorsia cerata (Fabricius, 1795)
• Epitamyra minusculalis (Möschler, 1890)
• Eulepte concordalis Hübner, 1825
• Eulepte gastralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Glyphodes sibillalis Walker, 1859
• Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Hypsopygia nostralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Hypsipyla grandella (Zeller, 1848)
• Loxomorpha cambogialis (Guenée, 1854)
• Microthyris prolongalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Omiodes humeralis Guenée, 1854
• Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Omiodes martyralis (Lederer, 1863)
• Pachypalpia dispilalis Hampson, 1895
• Palpita isoscelalis gourbeyrensis Munroe, 1959
• Palpita persimilis Munroe, 1959
• Palpita viettei Munroe, 1959
• Pococera atramentalis (Lederer, 1863)
• Pococera scabridella (Ragonot, 1889)
• Polygrammodes eleuata (Fabricius, 1777)
• Portentomorpha xanthialis (Guenée, 1854)
• Rhectocraspeda periusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Sathria internitalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Sparagmia gonoptera (Latreille, 1828)
• Syllepte pactolalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Syngamia florella (Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1781)
• Triuncidia eupalusalis (Walker, 1859)

Plutellidae

• Plutella xylostella (Linné, 1758)

Gracillariidae

• Macrosaccus gliricidius Davis, 2011

Tortricidae

• Lorita insulicola Razowski & Becker, 2007

References

• Les Arthopodes continentaux de Guadeloupe