List of Lepidoptera of Wallis and Futuna explained

This is a list of the butterflies and moths of Wallis and Futuna, a French overseas collectivity in the South Pacific.

Butterflies

Lycaenidae

Polyommatinae

• Euchrysops cnejus samoa (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• Euploea boisduvalii boisduvalii Lucas, 1853
• Euploea lewinii eschscholtzii (C & R Felder, 1865)

Nymphalidae

Nymphalinae

• Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)

Moths

Agonoxenidae

• Agonoxena argaula Meyrick, 1921

Crambidae

• Lamprosema octasema Meyrick, 1886
• Nacoleia octasema (Meyrick, 1886)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Erebidae

• Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelechiidae

• Scrobipalpa heliopa Lower, 1900

Noctuidae

• Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1809])
• Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775)

Tortricidae

• Cryptophlebia pallifimbriana Bradley, 1953

Sphingidae

• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 April 2006)
• Gutierrez, 1981. Actualisation des Données sur l'Entomologie Economique à Wallis et a Futuna. ORSTOM.