HERMINIIDAE of Australia
NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 11 August 2010)

HERMINIIDAE

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Sometimes, this group of species is treated as a subfamily HERMINIINAE of either NOCTUIDAE or of EREBIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., we list it as a family.

The 26 named Australian species in HERMINIIDAE are:

Adrapsa ablualis

  • Auchmophanes megalosara
  • Auchmophanes ochrospila
  • Auchmophanes platysara

  • Bocana manifestalis

  • Corethrobela melanophaes

  • Hydrillodes dimissalis
  • Hydrillodes funestalis
    Hydrillodes lentalis
  • Hydrillodes metisalis

  • Lithilaria anomozancla
  • Lithilaria melanostrotum
    Lithilaria ossicolor
  • Lithilaria proestans

    Mormoscopa phricozona
    Mormoscopa sordescens

  • Nodaria aneliopis
    Nodaria cornicalis

    Pogonia umbrifera

  • Polypogon fractalis

    Simplicia armatalis
    Simplicia caeneusalis

  • Simplicia erebina
  • Simplicia rufa

    Squamipalpis pantoea

  • Stenhypena albopunctata

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