List of Lepidoptera of Bermuda explained

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

Hesperiidae

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

Nymphalidae

• 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

• Papilio cresphontes Cramer, [1777]

Pieridae

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

Moths

Arctiidae

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

Blastobasidae

• Holcocera guilandinae (Busck, 1900)

Bucculatricidae

• Bucculatrix rhombophora Meyrick, 1926

Coleophoridae

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

Cosmopterigidae

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

Crambidae

• 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

• Elachista species

Gelechiidae

• 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

• 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

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

Hyblaeidae

• Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777)

Lyonetiidae

• Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Momphidae

• Mompha circumscriptella (Zeller, 1873)

Noctuidae

• 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

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pterophoridae

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

Pyralidae

• 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

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

Tineidae

• 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

• 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

• Yponomeuta calcarata Meyrick, 1924

References

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