List of moths of South Africa

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The moths of South Africa represent about 7,000 known moth species. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in South Africa. Because of the large number of species from South Africa, some families are listed on separate pages.

• Acrolepia canachopis Meyrick, 1913
• Acrolepia chalarodesma Meyrick, 1927
• Acrolepia gelida Meyrick, 1921
• Acrolepia trapezopa Meyrick, 1914
• Acrolepia xylophragma (Meyrick, 1926)

• Adela cuneella Walsingham, 1891
• Adela droseropa Meyrick, 1921
• Adela electella (Walker, 1863)
• Adela natalensis Stainton, 1860
• Ceromitia albosparsa Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia alternipunctella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Ceromitia amphichroa Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia arata Meyrick, 1920
• Ceromitia benedicta Meyrick, 1918
• Ceromitia bipartita (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia bipectinifera Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia brevilobata (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia centrologa Meyrick, 1937
• Ceromitia cerochlora Meyrick, 1921
• Ceromitia crinigerella (Zeller, 1850)
• Ceromitia decepta Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia delta Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia descripta Meyrick, 1924
• Ceromitia devia (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia dicksoni (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia durbanica (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia elongatella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Ceromitia fuscipunctella (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia geminata Meyrick, 1914
• Ceromitia gigantea Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia graptosema Meyrick, 1914
• Ceromitia grisata (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia heteroloba (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia holosticta Meyrick, 1918
• Ceromitia impura (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia indigna (Meyrick, 1912)
• Ceromitia intermedia (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia laureata Meyrick, 1911
• Ceromitia libropis Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia melanodesma Meyrick, 1914
• Ceromitia melanostrota Meyrick, 1912
• Ceromitia mellicoma Meyrick, 1912
• Ceromitia mioclina Meyrick, 1921
• Ceromitia mitrata Meyrick, 1917
• Ceromitia monopectinifera Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia multipunctata Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia nerina Meyrick, 1912
• Ceromitia ochrotricha Meyrick, 1912
• Ceromitia palyntis Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia phaeocomoides Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia phyrsima Meyrick, 1911
• Ceromitia praetexta Meyrick, 1924
• Ceromitia punctulata Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia resonans Meyrick, 1918
• Ceromitia simpliciella (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia spatalodes Meyrick, 1920
• Ceromitia spilodesma Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia sporaea Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia stathmodes Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia synchroma (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia transtrifera Meyrick, 1912
• Ceromitia trigoniferella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Ceromitia trilobata (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia turpisella (Walker, 1863)
• Ceromitia tyrochlora Meyrick, 1908
• Ceromitia unguiphora (Janse, 1945)
• Ceromitia vansoni Janse, 1945
• Ceromitia wahlbergi Zeller, 1852
• Ceromitia xanthosoma Meyrick, 1917

• Alucita acalyptra (Meyrick, 1913)
• Alucita brachyzona (Meyrick, 1920)
• Alucita butleri Wallengren, 1875
• Alucita capensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
• Alucita certifica (Meyrick, 1909)
• Alucita crococyma (Meyrick, 1937)
• Alucita ferruginea Walsingham, 1881
• Alucita habrophila (Meyrick, 1920)
• Alucita ithycypha (Meyrick, 1927)
• Alucita libraria (Meyrick, 1911)
• Alucita ochriprota (Hering, 1917)
• Alucita phanerarcha (Meyrick, 1924)
• Alucita photaula (Meyrick, 1918)
• Alucita spicifera (Meyrick, 1911)
• Alucita tesserata (Meyrick, 1918)
• Microschismus antennatus T. B. Fletcher, 1909
• Microschismus cymatias Meyrick, 1918
• Microschismus fortis (Walsingham, 1881)
• Microschismus premnias Meyrick, 1913
• Microschismus reginus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011
• Microschismus sceletias Meyrick, 1911
• Microschismus sterkfontein Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011

• Anomoeotes levis Felder, 1888
• Anomoeotes nigrivenosus Butler, 1893
• Dianeura goochii Butler, 1888

About 239 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Arctiidae)

• Diophila bathrota (Meyrick, 1911)
• Hesperesta rhyodes (Meyrick, 1909)
• Holcopogon tucki Vives Moreno, 1999
• Oegoconia meledantis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Oegoconia syndesma Meyrick, 1926
• Pachnistis craniota (Meyrick, 1913)
• Procometis acharma Meyrick, 1908
• Procometis limitata Meyrick, 1911
• Procometis milvina Meyrick, 1914
• Procometis ochricilia Meyrick, 1921
• Procometis oxypora Meyrick, 1908
• Procometis terrena Meyrick, 1908
• Symmoca crocodesma Meyrick, 1911

• Batrachedra epombra Meyrick, 1914
• Batrachedra granosa Meyrick, 1911
• Batrachedra heliota Meyrick, 1913
• Batrachedra isochtha Meyrick, 1914
• Batrachedra microbias Meyrick, 1914
• Batrachedra oemias Meyrick, 1909
• Batrachedra phaneropa Meyrick, 1914
• Batrachedra saurota Meyrick, 1911
• Batrachedra stegodyphobia Walsingham, 1903
• Enscepastra lathraea Meyrick, 1920
• Enscepastra longirostris Meyrick, 1926
• Enscepastra plagiopa Meyrick, 1920
• Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881

• Bedellia cathareuta Meyrick, 1911
• Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

• Bombyx mori (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Ocinara ficicola (Westwood & Ormerod, 1889)
• Racinoa ianthe (Druce, 1887)
• Racinoa pallicornis Strand, 1910
• Racinoa signicosta Strand, 1910

• Atractoceros albiciliata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Atractoceros xanthoprocta (Meyrick, 1914)
• Brachodes infandus (Meyrick, 1920)
• Brachodes metaspilus (Meyrick, 1926)
• Brachodes nycteropis (Meyrick, 1920)
• Brachodes quiris (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Nigilgia albitogata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Nigilgia eucallynta (Meyrick, 1937)
• Nigilgia pseliota (Meyrick, 1920)
• Phycodes punctata Walsingham, 1891

• Dactyloceras widenmanni (Karsch, 1895)
• Spiramiopsis comma Hampson, 1901

• Bucculatrix agilis Meyrick, 1920
• Bucculatrix amara Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix anticolona Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix dulcis Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix edocta Meyrick, 1921
• Bucculatrix facilis Meyrick, 1911
• Bucculatrix galeodes Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix inchoata Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix lenis Meyrick, 1913
• Bucculatrix melipecta Meyrick, 1914
• Bucculatrix monelpis Meyrick, 1928
• Bucculatrix ochromeris Meyrick, 1928
• Bucculatrix porthmisa Meyrick, 1908
• Bucculatrix praecipua Meyrick, 1918
• Bucculatrix quieta Meyrick, 1913
• Leucoedemia ingens (Scoble & Scholtz, 1984)

• Carposina autologa Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina brachycentra Meyrick, 1914
• Carposina conobathra Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina exsanguis Meyrick, 1918
• Carposina impavida Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina irata Meyrick, 1914
• Carposina proconsularis Meyrick, 1921
• Carposina siturga Meyrick, 1912
• Carposina socors Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina subselliata Meyrick, 1921
• Carposina thermurga Meyrick, 1929

• Scyrotis athleta Meyrick, 1909
• Scyrotis granosa (Meyrick, 1912)
• Scyrotis kochi Mey, 2007
• Scyrotis pulleni Mey, 2007
• Scyrotis trivialis (Meyrick, 1913)

• Brenthia leucatoma Meyrick, 1918
• Brenthia virginalis Meyrick, 1912
• Choreutis aegyptiaca (Zeller, 1867)
• Choreutis entechna (Meyrick, 1920)
• Choreutis gratiosa (Meyrick, 1911)
• Choreutis plectodes (Meyrick, 1921)
• Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)

• Anathyrsa macroxyla Meyrick, 1920
• Augasma nidifica Meyrick, 1912
• Blastobasis byrsodepta Meyrick, 1913
• Blastobasis determinata Meyrick, 1921
• Blastobasis egens Meyrick, 1918
• Blastobasis fatigata Meyrick, 1914
• Blastobasis industria Meyrick, 1913
• Blastobasis millicentae Adamski, 2010
• Blastobasis taricheuta Meyrick, 1909
• Calosima arguta (Meyrick, 1918)
• Coleophora acmura Meyrick, 1914
• Coleophora aphanombra Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora diffusa Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora efflua Meyrick, 1911
• Coleophora eremodes Meyrick, 1912
• Coleophora halmodes Meyrick, 1911
• Coleophora illustrata Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora intensa Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora leucaula Meyrick, 1911
• Coleophora megaloptila Meyrick, 1909
• Coleophora niphocrossa Meyrick, 1920
• Coleophora ordinaria Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora orphnoceros Meyrick, 1937
• Coleophora oxyphaea Meyrick, 1913
• Coleophora presbytica Meyrick, 1921
• Coleophora scaleuta Meyrick, 1911
• Coleophora scariphota Meyrick, 1911
• Coleophora terenaula Meyrick, 1927
• Coleophora textoria Meyrick, 1921
• Coleophora triflua Meyrick, 1911
• Holcocera extensa (Meyrick, 1918)
• Holcocera irroratella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Kruegerius terebratus (Meyrick, 1924)

• Copromorpha aeruginea Meyrick, 1917
• Rhynchoferella syncentra (Meyrick, 1916)

• Alloclita paraphracta Meyrick, 1914
• Alloclita xylodesma Meyrick, 1911
• Allotalanta clonomicta Meyrick, 1927
• Anatrachyntis rileyi (Walsingham, 1882)
• Anatrachyntis tripola (Meyrick, 1909)
• Ascalenia albitergis Meyrick, 1926
• Ascalenia melanogastra (Meyrick, 1918)
• Ascalenia nudicornis (Meyrick, 1913)
• Ascalenia pulverata (Meyrick, 1913)
• Ascalenia staurocentra (Meyrick, 1915)
• Axiarcha discosema Meyrick, 1921
• Chalcocolona cyananthes (Meyrick, 1911)
• Cnemidolophus lavernellus Walsingham, 1881
• Cosmopterix ancistraea Meyrick, 1913
• Cosmopterix antichorda Meyrick, 1909
• Cosmopterix bactrophora Meyrick, 1908
• Cosmopterix callinympha Meyrick, 1913
• Cosmopterix circe Meyrick, 1921
• Cosmopterix cleophanes Meyrick, 1937
• Cosmopterix cognita Walsingham, 1891
• Cosmopterix diplozona Meyrick, 1921
• Cosmopterix emmolybda Meyrick, 1914
• Cosmopterix macroglossa Meyrick, 1913
• Cosmopterix oxyglossa Meyrick, 1909
• Cosmopterix scaligera Meyrick, 1909
• Cosmopterix tabellaria Meyrick, 1908
• Cosmopterix tetrophthalma Meyrick, 1921
• Dorodoca eometalla Meyrick, 1926
• Erechthiodes audax Meyrick, 1914
• Eteobalea pentagama Meyrick, 1928
• Eteobalea phanoptila Meyrick, 1911
• Eteobalea quinquecristata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Gibeauxiella genitrix (Meyrick, 1927)
• Gisilia antidesma (Meyrick, 1913)
• Gisilia cardinata (Meyrick, 1918)
• Gisilia conformata (Meyrick, 1921)
• Gisilia sclerodes (Meyrick, 1909)
• Gisilia stagnans (Meyrick, 1921)
• Hyalochna allevata Meyrick, 1918
• Ischnobathra balanobola Meyrick, 1937
• Ischnobathra dormiens Meyrick, 1937
• Labdia caulota Meyrick, 1918
• Labdia diophanes Meyrick, 1927
• Limnaecia chlorodeta Meyrick, 1928
• Limnaecia chloronephes Meyrick, 1924
• Limnaecia effulgens Meyrick, 1918
• Limnaecia eretmota Meyrick, 1909
• Limnaecia ichnographa Meyrick, 1908
• Limnaecia neurogramma Meyrick, 1909
• Limnaecia recidiva Meyrick, 1911
• Limnaecia semisecta Meyrick, 1928
• Macrobathra anisodora Meyrick, 1924
• Macrobathra recrepans Meyrick, 1926
• Melanozestis heterodesma Meyrick, 1930
• Parathystas porphyrantha Meyrick, 1913
• Pycnagorastis tanyopa Meyrick, 1937
• Pyroderces narcota (Meyrick, 1909)
• Stagmatophora basanistis Meyrick, 1909
• Stagmatophora phalacra Meyrick, 1909
• Stagmatophora pilana Meyrick, 1913
• Stagmatophora trimitra Meyrick, 1913
• Stilbosis antibathra (Meyrick, 1914)
• Streptothyris tanyacta Meyrick, 1918

• Aethalopteryx forsteri (Clench, 1959)
• Aethalopteryx pindarus (Fawcett, 1916)
• Aethalopteryx squameus (Distant, 1902)
• Aethalopteryx tristis (Gaede, 1915)
• Alophonotus rauanus (Strand, 1909)
• Arctiocossus antargyreus Felder, 1874
• Arctiocossus danieli Clench, 1959
• Arctiocossus impeditus (Walker, 1865)
• Arctiocossus ligatus (Walker, 1865)
• Arctiocossus tessellatus Clench, 1959
• Azygophleps asylas (Cramer, 1777)
• Azygophleps atrifasciata Hampson, 1910
• Azygophleps cooksoni Pinhey, 1968
• Azygophleps inclusa (Walker, 1856)
• Azygophleps leopardina Distant, 1902
• Azygophleps pusilla (Walker, 1856)
• Brachylia eutelia Clench, 1959
• Brachylia incanescens (Butler, 1875)
• Brachylia terebroides Felder, 1874
• Coryphodema albifasciata Hampson, 1910
• Coryphodema tristis (Drury, 1782)
• Cossus seineri Grünberg, 1910
• Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder, 1874
• Macrocossus coelebs Clench, 1959
• Macrocossus toluminus (Druce, 1887)
• Nomima cyanoscia (Meyrick, 1918)
• Nomima subnigrata (Meyrick, 1917)
• Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1913
• Pecticossus castaneus Gaede, 1929
• Phragmataecia andarana Clench, 1959
• Phragmataecia boisduvalii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Phragmataecia innominata Dalla Torre, 1923
• Phragmataecia irrorata Hampson, 1910
• Phragmataecia okovangae Clench, 1959
• Pseudurgis leucosema Meyrick, 1914
• Pseudurgis nephelicta Meyrick, 1913
• Pseudurgis ochrolychna Meyrick, 1914
• Pseudurgis poliastis (Meyrick, 1937)
• Pseudurgis polychorda Meyrick, 1913
• Pseudurgis protracta Meyrick, 1924
• Pseudurgis sciocolona Meyrick, 1914
• Pseudurgis scutifera Meyrick, 1912
• Pseudurgis tectonica Meyrick, 1908
• Pseudurgis undulata (Meyrick, 1911)
• Rethona strigosa Walker, 1855
• Strigocossus capensis (Walker, 1856)
• Strigocossus ochricosta (T. B. Fletcher, 1968)
• Xyleutes dictyotephra Clench, 1959
• Xyleutes sjoestedti (Aurivillius, 1900)
• Xyleutes vosseleri Gaede, 1929
• Zeuzera coffeae Nietner, 1861
• Zeuzera sponda Wallengren, 1875

About 407 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Crambidae)

• Aethiopsestis austrina Watson, 1965
• Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965
• Epicampoptera notialis Watson, 1965
• Marplena designina Lane, 1973
• Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)

• Dudgeonea leucosticta Hampson, 1900

• Agonopterix communis (Meyrick, 1920)
• Agonopterix compacta (Meyrick, 1914)
• Agonopterix crypsicosma (Meyrick, 1920)
• Agonopterix dryocrates (Meyrick, 1921)
• Agonopterix glyphidopa (Meyrick, 1828)
• Agonopterix goughi (Bradley, 1958)
• Agonopterix grammatopa (Meyrick, 1920)
• Agonopterix homogenes (Meyrick, 1920)
• Agonopterix melanarcha (Meyrick, 1913)
• Agonopterix neoxesta (Meyrick, 1918)
• Agonopterix trimenella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Colonophora ictifera Meyrick, 1937
• Cryptolechia castella (Zeller, 1852)
• Cryptolechia straminella (Zeller, 1852)
• Depressaria clausulata Meyrick, 1911
• Depressaria orthobathra Meyrick, 1918
• Depressaria panurga Meyrick, 1920
• Depressaria prospicua Meyrick, 1914
• Depressaria rhodoscelis Meyrick, 1920
• Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909
• Elachista crocogastra Meyrick, 1908
• Elachista gypsophila Meyrick, 1911
• Elachista inscia (Meyrick, 1913)
• Elachista justificata Meyrick, 1926
• Elachista merimnaea Meyrick, 1920
• Elachista nymphaea Meyrick, 1911
• Elachista sparsula Meyrick, 1921
• Ethmia circumdatella (Walker, 1863)
• Ethmia coscineutis Meyrick, 1912
• Ethmia dactylia Meyrick, 1912
• Ethmia glandifera Meyrick, 1918
• Ethmia hamaxastra Meyrick, 1930
• Ethmia leucocirrha Meyrick, 1926
• Ethmia livida (Zeller, 1852)
• Ethmia oculigera (Möschler, 1883)
• Ethmia pericentrota Meyrick, 1926
• Ethmia rhomboidella Walsingham, 1897
• Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Eutorna diluvialis Meyrick, 1913
• Haplochrois ganota Meyrick, 1911
• Haplochrois halans Meyrick, 1924
• Haplochrois hysterota (Meyrick, 1918)
• Ischnopsis angustella Walsingham, 1881
• Ischnopsis melanogma (Meyrick, 1908)
• Ischnopsis pilifera (Meyrick, 1921)
• Martyrhilda melanarga (Meyrick, 1913)
• Microcolona omphalias Meyrick, 1913
• Microcolona pantomima Meyrick, 1917
• Myrrhinitis sporeuta Meyrick, 1913
• Orophia ammopleura (Meyrick, 1920)
• Orophia eariasella (Walker, 1864)
• Orophia haeresiella (Wallengren, 1875)
• Orophia ochroxyla (Meyrick, 1937)
• Orophia roseoflavida (Walsingham, 1881)
• Orophia tetrasticta (Meyrick, 1917)
• Orophia tranquilla (Meyrick, 1927)
• Orophia transfuga (Meyrick, 1911)
• Orophia xanthosarca (Meyrick, 1917)
• Pauroptila galenitis Meyrick, 1913
• Perittia aganopa (Meyrick, 1911)
• Perittia nimbifera (Meyrick, 1913)
• Perittia secutrix (Meyrick, 1914)
• Phthinostoma infumata Meyrick, 1914
• Phthinostoma pachyzona Meyrick, 1921
• Pisinidea exsuperans Meyrick, 1920
• Porotica astragalis Meyrick, 1913
• Stenoma dicentra Meyrick, 1913
• Stenoma modicola Meyrick, 1911
• Stenoma reticens Meyrick, 1917
• Stenoma simulatrix Meyrick, 1914
• Stenoma stolida Meyrick, 1911
• Trachydora iocharis Meyrick, 1918
• Trachydora rhachitis Meyrick, 1913
• Trachydora scandalotis Meyrick, 1921

• Epermenia conioptila Meyrick, 1921
• Epermenia criticodes Meyrick, 1913
• Epermenia ithycentra Meyrick, 1926
• Epermenia ochrodesma Meyrick, 1913
• Epermenia proserga Meyrick, 1913
• Ochromolopis praefumata (Meyrick, 1911)
• Temeluchella xeropa (Meyrick, 1909)

• Epipyrops fulvipunctata Distant, 1913

• Compsoctena aedifica (Meyrick, 1908)
• Compsoctena africanella (Strand, 1909)
• Compsoctena agria (Meyrick, 1909)
• Compsoctena autoderma (Meyrick, 1914)
• Compsoctena brachyctenis (Meyrick, 1909)
• Compsoctena connexalis (Walker, 1863)
• Compsoctena cyclatma (Meyrick, 1908)
• Compsoctena delocrossa (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena dermatodes (Meyrick, 1914)
• Compsoctena expers (Meyrick, 1911)
• Compsoctena fossoria (Meyrick, 1920)
• Compsoctena furciformis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena isopetra (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena lycophanes (Meyrick, 1924)
• Compsoctena melitoploca (Meyrick, 1927)
• Compsoctena microctenis (Meyrick, 1914)
• Compsoctena numeraria (Meyrick, 1914)
• Compsoctena ochrastis (Meyrick, 1937)
• Compsoctena ostracitis (Meyrick, 1913)
• Compsoctena primella Zeller, 1852
• Compsoctena psammosticha (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena quassa (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena rudis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena scriba (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena spilophanes (Meyrick, 1921)
• Compsoctena talarodes (Meyrick, 1927)
• Compsoctena terrestris (Meyrick, 1914)
• Eucryptogona secularis Meyrick, 1918

• Bantuana cregoei Distant, 1906
• Camerunia flava Aurivillius, 1904
• Cyrtojana trilineata Aurivillius, 1911
• Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917
• Hemijana subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Hibrildes crawshayi Butler, 1896
• Hoplojana rhodoptera (Gerstaecker, 1871)

• Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Jana nigristriata Janse, 1915
• Jana tantalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Janomima dannfelti (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Janomima mariana (White, 1843)
• Lichenopteryx despecta Felder, 1874
• Marmaroplegma conspersa Aurivillius, 1921
• Marmaroplegma paragarda Wallengren, 1860
• Marmaroplegma unicolor Janse, 1915
• Paraphyllalia degenera (Walker, 1855)
• Phiala albidorsata Gaede, 1927
• Phiala bistrigata Aurivillius, 1901
• Phiala costipuncta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Phiala crassistriga Strand, 1911
• Phiala dasypoda Wallengren, 1860
• Phiala flavipennis Wallengren, 1875
• Phiala hologramma (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Phiala incana Distant, 1897
• Phiala marshalli Aurivillius, 1904
• Phiala nigrolineata Aurivillius, 1903
• Phiala niveociliata Strand, 1911
• Phiala polita Distant, 1897
• Phiala pretoriana Wichgraf, 1908
• Phiala pseudatomaria Strand, 1911
• Phiala pulverea Distant, 1903
• Phiala similis Aurivillius, 1911
• Phiala simplex Aurivillius, 1904
• Phiala wichgrafi Strand, 1911
• Phyllalia alboradiata Aurivillius, 1911
• Phyllalia flavicostata Fawcett, 1903
• Phyllalia patens (Boisduval, 1847)
• Phyllalia thunbergii (Boisduval, 1847)
• Phyllalia umbripennis Strand, 1911
• Phyllalia valida (Felder, 1874)
• Phyllalia ziczac (Strand, 1911)
• Poloma angulata Walker, 1855
• Poloma castanea Aurivillius, 1901
• Poloma nigromaculata Aurivillius, 1893
• Pterocerota virginea Hampson, 1905
• Rhabdosia patagiata (Aurivillius, 1911)
• Rhabdosia vaninia (Stoll, 1781)
• Schistissa uniformis Aurivillius, 1901
• Stenoglene bicolor (Distant, 1897)
• Stenoglene decellei Dall'Asta & Poncin, 1980
• Stenoglene hilaris Felder, 1874
• Stenoglene livingstonensis (Strand, 1909)
• Stenoglene nahor Druce, 1896
• Stenoglene obtusus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoglene pira Druce, 1896
• Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886)
• Striphnopteryx edulis (Boisduval, 1847)
• Tissanga pretoriae (Distant, 1892)

About 502 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Gelechiidae)

About 976 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Geometridae)

• Chrysocentris chrysozona (Meyrick, 1921)
• Chrysocentris urania Meyrick, 1920
• Glyphipterix amphipeda Meyrick, 1920
• Glyphipterix argophracta Meyrick, 1926
• Glyphipterix bohemani (Zeller, 1852)
• Glyphipterix callithea Meyrick, 1921
• Glyphipterix climacaspis Meyrick, 1920
• Glyphipterix decachrysa Meyrick, 1918
• Glyphipterix diplotoxa Meyrick, 1920
• Glyphipterix ditiorana Walker, 1863
• Glyphipterix grapholithoides (Walsingham, 1891)
• Glyphipterix idiomorpha Meyrick, 1917
• Glyphipterix medica Meyrick, 1911
• Glyphipterix ortholeuca Meyrick, 1921
• Glyphipterix oxytricha Meyrick, 1928
• Glyphipterix stelucha Meyrick, 1909
• Tetracmanthes astrocosma Meyrick, 1925
• Ussara polyastra Meyrick, 1937

• Acrocercops chrysophylli Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops combreticola Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops ficina Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops gossypii Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops heterodoxa Meyrick, 1912
• Acrocercops ochnifolii Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops punctulata Walsingham, 1891
• Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961
• Acrocercops terminalina Vári, 1961
• Amblyptila cynanchi Vári, 1961
• Amblyptila strophanthina Vári, 1961
• Aristaea bathracma (Meyrick, 1912)
• Aristaea eurygramma Vári, 1961
• Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908)
• Aristaea thalassias (Meyrick, 1880)
• Aspilapteryx filifera (Meyrick, 1912)
• Aspilapteryx grypota (Meyrick, 1914)
• Aspilapteryx seriata (Meyrick, 1912)
• Callicercops triceros (Meyrick, 1926)
• Caloptilia aurita Triberti, 1989
• Caloptilia azaleella (Brants, 1913)
• Caloptilia cataractias (Meyrick, 1921)
• Caloptilia celtina Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia chrysoplaca Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia corrugata (Meyrick, 1918)
• Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia isotoma (Meyrick, 1914)
• Caloptilia leptophanes (Meyrick, 1928)
• Caloptilia leptospila Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia macropleura (Meyrick, 1932)
• Caloptilia meyricki Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia octopunctata (Turner, 1894)
• Caloptilia pentaplaca (Meyrick, 1911)
• Caloptilia poecilostola Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia porphyranthes (Meyrick, 1921)
• Caloptilia prosticta (Meyrick, 1909)
• Caloptilia pyrrhochroma Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia rhusina Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia sapina Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia semnophanes (Meyrick, 1918)
• Caloptilia syngenica Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia titanitis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Caloptilia vibrans (Meyrick, 1918)
• Caloptilia vicinola Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia xanthocephala Vári, 1961
• Caloptilia xanthochiria Vári, 1961
• Cameraria hexalobina (Vári, 1961)
• Cameraria varii de Prins, 2012
• Conopobathra carbunculata (Meyrick, 1912)
• Conopobathra geraea Vári, 1961
• Conopobathra gravissima (Meyrick, 1912)
• Conopomorpha chionosema Vári, 1961
• Conopomorpha euphanes Vári, 1961
• Conopomorpha fustigera (Meyrick, 1928)
• Conopomorphina aptata (Meyrick, 1914)
• Conopomorphina ochnivora Vári, 1961
• Corethrovalva allophylina Vári, 1961
• Corethrovalva goniosema Vári, 1961
• Corethrovalva paraplesia Vári, 1961
• Corythoxestis cyanolampra Vári, 1961
• Cryptolectica capnodecta Vári, 1961
• Cryptolectica euryphanta (Meyrick, 1911)
• Cryptolectica monodecta (Meyrick, 1912)
• Cuphodes diospyri Vári, 1961
• Cuphodes dolichocera Vári, 1961
• Cuphodes leucocera Vári, 1961
• Cuphodes melanostola (Meyrick, 1918)
• Dialectica carcharota (Meyrick, 1912)
• Dialectica columellina (Vári, 1961)
• Dialectica cordiaecola Vári, 1961
• Dialectica ehretiae (Vári, 1961)
• Dialectica galactozona Vári, 1961
• Dialectica odontosema (Vári, 1961)
• Dialectica pavonicola (Vári, 1961)
• Dialectica praegemina (Meyrick, 1917)
• Dialectica pyramidota (Meyrick, 1918)
• Dialectica trigonidota (Vári, 1961)
• Diphtheroptila brideliae Vári, 1961
• Diphtheroptila oxyloga (Meyrick, 1928)
• Ectropina citricula (Meyrick, 1912)
• Ectropina ligata (Meyrick, 1912)
• Ectropina sclerochitoni Vári, 1961
• Epicephala haplodoxa Vári, 1961
• Epicephala homostola Vári, 1961
• Epicephala pelopepla Vári, 1961
• Epicephala pyrrhogastra Meyrick, 1908
• Epicephala tephrostola Vári, 1961
• Euspilapteryx crypta Vári, 1961
• Graphiocephala barbitias (Meyrick, 1909)
• Graphiocephala polysticha Vári, 1961
• Graphiocephala strigifera Vári, 1961
• Lamprolectica apicistrigata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Leucocercops dasmophora (Meyrick, 1908)
• Liocrobyla tephrosiae Vári, 1961
• Macarostola flora (Meyrick, 1926)
• Macarostola noellineae Vári, 2002
• Metacercops praestricta (Meyrick, 1918)
• Metriochroa pergulariae Vári, 1961
• Metriochroa tylophorae Vári, 1961
• Oligoneurina ficicola Vári, 1961
• Pareclectis adelospila Vári, 1961
• Pareclectis invita (Meyrick, 1912)
• Pareclectis leucosticha Vári, 1961
• Pareclectis prionota (Meyrick, 1928)
• Phodoryctis dolichophila (Vári, 1961)
• Phodoryctis thrypticosema (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
• Phyllocnistis pharetrucha Meyrick, 1921
• Phyllocnistis saligna (Zeller, 1839)
• Phyllonorycter anchistea (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter brachylaenae (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter didymopa (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter dombeyae de Prins, 2012
• Phyllonorycter encaeria (Meyrick, 1911)
• Phyllonorycter grewiaecola (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter grewiella (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter hibiscina (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter lantanae (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter loxozona (Meyrick, 1936)
• Phyllonorycter melanosparta (Meyrick, 1912)
• Phyllonorycter melhaniae (Meyrick, 1912)
• Phyllonorycter pavoniae (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter rhynchosiae (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter tsavensis de Prins, 2012
• Pleiomorpha dystacta Vári, 1961
• Pleiomorpha eumeces Vári, 1961
• Pleiomorpha habrogramma Vári, 1961
• Pleiomorpha homotypa Vári, 1961
• Pleiomorpha symmetra Vári, 1961
• Pogonocephala veneranda (Meyrick, 1909)
• Polydema hormophora (Meyrick, 1912)
• Polydema vansoni Vári, 1961
• Polysoma clarki Vári, 1961
• Polysoma lithochrysa (Meyrick, 1930)
• Porphyrosela gautengi de Prins, 2012
• Porphyrosela teramni Vári, 1961
• Schedocercops maeruae Vári, 1961
• Semnocera procellaris (Meyrick, 1914)
• Spulerina atactodesma Vári, 1961
• Spulerina catapasta Vári, 1961
• Spulerina hexalocha (Meyrick, 1912)
• Spulerina lochmaea Vári, 1961
• Spulerina marmarodes Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis aphrocyma (Meyrick, 1918)
• Stomphastis cardamitis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Stomphastis conflua (Meyrick, 1914)
• Stomphastis crotoniphila Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis crotonis Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis dodonaeae Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis eugrapta Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis mixograpta Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis rorkei Vári, 1961
• Stomphastis thraustica (Meyrick, 1908)
• Stomphastis tremina Vári, 1961
• Systoloneura randiae Vári, 1961
• Telamoptilia geyeri (Vári, 1961)

• Antispila argyrozona Meyrick, 1918
• Antispila salutans Meyrick, 1921

• Afrotheora argentimaculata Nielsen & Scoble, 1986
• Afrotheora minirhodaula Nielsen & Scoble, 1986
• Afrotheora rhodaula (Meyrick, 1926)
• Afrotheora thermodes (Meyrick, 1921)
• Antihepialus antarcticus (Wallengren, 1860)
• Antihepialus capeneri Janse, 1948
• Antihepialus vansoni (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca albiplumis (Warren, 1914)
• Eudalaca albistriata (Hampson, 1910)
• Eudalaca ammon (Wallengren, 1860)
• Eudalaca amphiarma (Meyrick, 1926)
• Eudalaca aurifuscalis (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca bacotii (Quail, 1900)
• Eudalaca cretata (Distant, 1897)
• Eudalaca crossosema (Meyrick, 1921)
• Eudalaca crudeni (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca eriogastra (Meyrick, 1921)
• Eudalaca exul (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853])
• Eudalaca gutterata (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca hololeuca (Hampson, 1910)
• Eudalaca homoterma (Meyrick, 1921)
• Eudalaca ibex (Wallengren, 1860)
• Eudalaca infumata (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca isorrhoa (Meyrick, 1921)
• Eudalaca leniflua (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca leucocyma (Hampson, 1910)
• Eudalaca leucophaea (Janse, 1919)
• Eudalaca limbopunctata (Gaede, 1930)
• Eudalaca minuscula (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca nomaqua (Walker, 1856)
• Eudalaca orthocosma (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca rivula (Janse, 1942)
• Eudalaca rufescens (Hampson, 1910)
• Eudalaca semicana (Janse, 1919)
• Eudalaca troglodytis (Janse, 1919)
• Eudalaca vaporalis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Eudalaca vindex (Meyrick, 1939)
• Gorgopis annulosa Gaede, 1930
• Gorgopis armillata Meyrick, 1921
• Gorgopis auratilis Janse, 1919
• Gorgopis aurifuscata Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis butlerii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Gorgopis caffra Walker, 1856
• Gorgopis centaurica Meyrick, 1921
• Gorgopis cochlias Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis crudeni Janse, 1919
• Gorgopis furcata Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis fuscalis Janse, 1919
• Gorgopis grisescens Gaede, 1930
• Gorgopis hunti Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis inornata Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis intervallata Warren, 1914
• Gorgopis leucopetala Meyrick, 1921

• Gorgopis libania (Stoll, 1781)
• Gorgopis lobata Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis olivaceonotata Warren, 1914
• Gorgopis pallidiflava Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis pholidota Meyrick, 1921
• Gorgopis ptiloscelis (Meyrick, 1919)
• Gorgopis serangota Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis subrimosa Janse, 1942
• Gorgopis zellerii Dewitz, 1881
• Leto venus (Cramer, 1780)
• Metahepialus anguistiptera Janse, 1948
• Metahepialus plurimaculata (Warren, 1914)
• Metahepialus xenoctenis (Meyrick, 1926)

• Doratopteryx afra Rogenhofer, 1883
• Doratopteryx plumigera Butler, 1888
• Pedoptila nemopteridia Butler, 1885
• Semioptila brachyura Hering, 1937
• Semioptila flavidiscata Hampson, 1910
• Semioptila fulveolans (Mabille, 1897)
• Semioptila longipennis Hering, 1937
• Semioptila lufirensis Joicey & Talbot, 1921
• Semioptila marshalli Rothschild, 1907
• Semioptila torta Butler, 1887
• Semioptila trogoloba Hampson, 1920

• Hyblaea fontainei Berio, 1967
• Hyblaea occidentalium Holland, 1894
• Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777)

• Imma arsisceles Meyrick, 1937
• Imma quaestoria Meyrick, 1911
• Moca tormentata (Meyrick, 1921)

• Protaephagus capensis Scoble, 1980

• Gymnogramma cyanea Meyrick, 1912
• Gymnogramma eoxantha Meyrick, 1921
• Gymnogramma flavivitella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Gymnogramma hutchinsoni Walsingham, 1891
• Gymnogramma privata Meyrick, 1924
• Gymnogramma psyllodecta Meyrick, 1924
• Gymnogramma pyrozancla Meyrick, 1911
• Gymnogramma racemosa Meyrick, 1918
• Gymnogramma rhodoneura Meyrick, 1909
• Gymnogramma rufiventris (Zeller, 1852)

• Anadiasa affinis Aurivillius, 1911
• Anadiasa fuscofasciata (Aurivillius, 1922)
• Anadiasa jansei Aurivillius, 1917
• Anadiasa punctifascia Walker, 1855
• Anadiasa schoenheiti (Wichgraf, 1922)
• Beralade jordani Tams, 1936
• Beralade perobliqua Walker, 1855
• Beralade signinervis Strand, 1912
• Beralade wallengreni (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Bombycomorpha bifascia (Walker, 1855)
• Bombycomorpha dukei Joannou & Gurkovich, 2009
• Bombycomorpha pallida Distant, 1897
• Bombycopsis bipars (Walker, 1855)
• Bombycopsis capicola Aurivillius, 1921
• Bombycopsis indecora (Walker, 1865)
• Bombycopsis metallicus (Distant, 1898)
• Bombycopsis nigrovittata Aurivillius, 1927
• Bombycopsis ochroleuca Felder, 1874
• Bombycopsis venosa (Butler, 1895)
• Braura ligniclusa (Walker, 1865)
• Braura picturata (Grünberg, 1910)
• Braura truncatum (Walker, 1855)
• Catalebeda cuneilinea (Walker, 1856)
• Catalebeda discocellularis Strand, 1912
• Catalebeda jamesoni (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Chondrostegoides capensis Aurivillius, 1905
• Chondrostegoides jamaka Zolotuhin, 2007
• Chondrostegoides magna Zolotuhin, 2007
• Chondrostegoides murina (Aurivillius, 1927)
• Chondrostegoides nobilorum Zolotuhin, 2007
• Chondrostegoides ruficornis (Aurivillius, 1921)
• Chrysopsyche bivittata Aurivillius, 1927
• Chrysopsyche imparilis Aurivillius, 1905
• Chrysopsyche lutulenta Tams, 1923
• Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
• Cleopatrina phocea (Druce, 1887)
• Cymatopacha obscura Aurivillius, 1921
• Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906)
• Dollmania cuprea (Distant, 1897)
• Dollmania flavia (Fawcett, 1915)
• Dollmania plinthochroa Tams, 1930
• Dollmania purpurascens (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Epicnapteroides fuliginosa Pinhey, 1973
• Epicnapteroides marmorata Pinhey, 1973
• Epitrabala argenteoguttata (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Epitrabala nyassana (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Eucraera gemmata (Distant, 1897)
• Eucraera koellikerii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Eucraera salammbo (Vuillot, 1892)
• Eutricha bifascia (Walker, 1855)
• Eutricha capensis (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Eutricha fulvida (Distant, 1897)
• Eutricha morosa (Walker, 1865)
• Eutricha obscura (Walker, 1855)
• Euwallengrenia rectilineata (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Euwallengrenia reducta (Walker, 1855)
• Gastropacha africana (Holland, 1893)
• Gastropacha quercifolia (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Gastroplakaeis meridionalis Aurivillius, 1901
• Gonometa postica Walker, 1855
• Gonometa rufobrunnea Aurivillius, 1922
• Grammodora nigrolineata (Aurivillius, 1895)
• Grellada enigmatica (Hering, 1941)
• Haplopacha cinerea Aurivillius, 1905
• Henometa clarki (Aurivillius, 1895)
• Hypotrabala sanguicincta (Aurivillius, 1901)
• Lasiocampa angulifera Walker, 1865
• Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lebeda mustelina Distant, 1899
• Leipoxais emarginata Aurivillius, 1911
• Leipoxais peraffinis Holland, 1893
• Mallocampa leighi Aurivillius, 1922
• Mesocelis monticola Hübner, 1820
• Metadula indecisa Walker, 1865
• Metajana marshalli Aurivillius, 1909
• Mimopacha knoblauchii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Morongea missdebeerae Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Napta straminea (Aurivillius, 1921)
• Nirbiana micha (Druce, 1899)
• Ocinaropsis obscura Aurivillius, 1905
• Odontocheilopteryx dollmani Tams, 1930
• Odontocheilopteryx myxa Wallengren, 1860
• Odontocheilopteryx obscura Aurivillius, 1927
• Odontopacha fenestrata Aurivillius, 1909
• Pachymeta capreolus Aurivillius, 1914
• Pachymetana neavei (Aurivillius, 1915)
• Pachytrina wenigina Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
• Pallastica lucifer Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Philotherma apithana Hering, 1928
• Philotherma media Aurivillius, 1909
• Philotherma obscura Aurivillius, 1927
• Philotherma rennei (Dewitz, 1881)
• Philotherma rosa (Druce, 1887)
• Pseudolyra cervina (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Pseudolyra cinerea (Aurivillius, 1901)
• Pseudolyra distincta (Distant, 1899)
• Pseudometa basalis (Walker, 1865)
• Pseudometa dollmani Tams, 1925
• Pseudometa viola Aurivillius, 1901
• Rhinobombyx cuneata Aurivillius, 1879
• Schausinna clementsi (Schaus, 1897)
• Schausinna regia (Grünberg, 1910)
• Sena breyeri (Aurivillius, 1922)
• Sena donaldsoni (Holland, 1901)
• Sena levenna (Wallengren, 1875)
• Sena parva (Aurivillius, 1921)
• Sena prompta (Walker, 1855)
• Sena simplex (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Stoermeriana aculeata (Walker, 1865)
• Stoermeriana amphilecta (Tams, 1936)
• Stoermeriana distinguenda (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Stoermeriana fusca (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Stoermeriana singulare (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Streblote bimaculatum (Walker, 1865)
• Streblote capensis (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Streblote concavum (Strand, 1912)
• Streblote concolor (Walker, 1855)
• Streblote cristata (Stoll, 1782)
• Streblote cupreum (Distant, 1899)
• Streblote jansei (Tams, 1936)
• Streblote polydora (Druce, 1887)
• Streblote uniforme (Aurivillius, 1927)
• Trichiurana meridionalis Aurivillius, 1921

• Trichopisthia igneotincta (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Trichopisthia monteiroi (Druce, 1887)

• Atrichozancla cosymbota (Meyrick, 1920)
• Atrichozancla gymnopalpa Janse, 1963
• Atrichozancla phaeocrossis (Meyrick, 1937)
• Cophomantella bifrenata (Meyrick, 1921)
• Cophomantella furnaria (Meyrick, 1913)
• Cophomantella homogramma (Meyrick, 1918)
• Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918
• Dragmatucha proaula Meyrick, 1908
• Epimactis atropunctella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Homaloxestis cholopis (Meyrick, 1906)
• Homaloxestis lophophora Janse, 1954
• Idiopteryx obliquella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Isotypa discopuncta Janse, 1954
• Lecithocera aenicta Janse, 1954
• Lecithocera anthologella Wallengren, 1875
• Lecithocera binotata Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera flavipalpis Walsingham, 1891
• Lecithocera ideologa Meyrick, 1937
• Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913
• Lecithocera myopa Meyrick, 1913
• Lecithocera officinalis Meyrick, 1911
• Odites assidua Meyrick, 1914
• Odites balsamias Meyrick, 1911
• Odites citrantha Meyrick, 1908
• Odites consignata Meyrick, 1921
• Odites crocota Meyrick, 1912
• Odites dilutella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Odites emensa Meyrick, 1921
• Odites exterrita Meyrick, 1937
• Odites fessa Meyrick, 1921
• Odites hemipercna Meyrick, 1914
• Odites insons Meyrick, 1912
• Odites inversa Meyrick, 1914
• Odites laconica Meyrick, 1927
• Odites meloxantha Meyrick, 1927
• Odites metaclista Meyrick, 1915
• Odites metaphracta Meyrick, 1909
• Odites metascia Meyrick, 1937
• Odites natalensis Walsingham, 1891
• Odites nubeculosa Meyrick, 1918
• Odites obumbrata Meyrick, 1925
• Odites obvia Meyrick, 1914
• Odites sucinea Meyrick, 1915
• Odites superscripta Meyrick, 1926
• Plagiocrossa picrodora (Meyrick, 1913)
• Protolychnis maculata (Walsingham, 1881)
• Protolychnis marginata (Walsingham, 1891)

• Sabalia picarina Walker, 1865
• Sabalia thalia Fawcett, 1915

• Afraltha chionostola (Hampson, 1910)
• Afraltha luxuriosa (Hering, 1928)
• Afrobirthama flaccidia (Druce, 1899)
• Afrobirthama hobohmi Janse, 1964
• Afrobirthama reducta Hering, 1928
• Afromiresa ustitermina (Hampson, 1910)
• Apluda plebeja Wallengren, 1863
• Apreptophanes stevensoni Janse, 1964
• Arctozygaena quinquemaculata Gaede, 1926
• Astatophlebia marmarobrunnea Janse, 1964
• Brachia albiviata (Hampson, 1910)
• Brachia amblygrapta Janse, 1964
• Brachia breijeri (Janse, 1964)
• Brachypecta perobliqua Janse, 1964
• Caffricola cloeckneria (Stoll, 1781)
• Caffricola kenyensis Talbot, 1932
• Caffricola vicina Alberti, 1954
• Chrysamma amabilis Clench, 1955
• Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896
• Chrysopoloma bicolor (Distant, 1897)
• Chrysopoloma flaviceps Aurivillius, 1901
• Chrysopoloma isabellina Aurivillius, 1895
• Chrysopoloma pallens Hering, 1923
• Chrysopoloma paupera Hering, 1925
• Chrysopoloma restricta Distant, 1899
• Chrysopoloma rudis (Walker, 1865)
• Chrysopoloma similis Aurivillius, 1895
• Chrysopoloma varia Distant, 1899
• Coenobasis albiramosa (Walker, 1865)
• Coenobasis amoena Felder, 1874
• Coenobasis hemichlora Grünberg, 1910
• Coenobasis intermedia Janse, 1964
• Coenobasis panochra Janse, 1964
• Coenobasis turneri West, 1937
• Cosuma polana Druce, 1887
• Crothaema conspicua Janse, 1964
• Crothaema decorata Distant, 1892
• Crothaema schoutedeni Hering, 1954
• Ctenolita melanosticta (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
• Delorhachis kilosa West, 1940
• Deltoptera iphia Janse, 1964
• Ectropa ancilis Wallengren, 1863
• Exanthica atelacma Meyrick, 1926
• Exanthica trigonella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Gavara velutina Walker, 1857
• Halseyia basiclara (Hering, 1937)
• Halseyia bisecta (Butler, 1898)
• Halseyia biumbrata (Hampson, 1910)
• Halseyia intacta (Hering, 1937)
• Halseyia pseudobisecta (Hering, 1937)
• Halseyia rectifascia (Hering, 1937)
• Halseyia tamsi (Hering, 1937)
• Hamartia clarissa Hering, 1937
• Hamartia medora Hering, 1937
• Homosusica eugrapha Janse, 1964
• Inous nigripalpis Walker, 1855
• Isozinara pallidifascia Janse, 1964
• Jordaniana lactea (Pagenstecher, 1903)
• Latoia albicosta (Hampson, 1910)
• Latoia anagaura Janse, 1964
• Latoia eremotropha Janse, 1964
• Latoia johannes (Distant, 1898)
• Latoia latistriga (Walker, 1855)
• Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
• Latoia urda (Druce, 1887)
• Latoia viridifascia Holland, 1893
• Latoia viridimixta Janse, 1964
• Latoia vitilena (Karsch, 1896)
• Latoia vivida (Walker, 1865)
• Latoiola pusilla (Aurivillius, 1900)
• Macroplectra meridionalis Hering, 1928
• Macroplectra rufopallens Hampson, 1910
• Macroplectra tripunctata Mabille, 1900
• Micraphe lateritia Karsch, 1896
• Monopecta castanea Janse, 1964
• Natada chrysaspis Hampson, 1910
• Natada kochi Janse, 1964
• Neogavara imitans Janse, 1964
• Neomocena brunneocrossa Janse, 1964
• Neomocena convergens (Hering, 1928)
• Niphadolepis bipunctata Hering, 1929
• Omocenoides isophanes Janse, 1964
• Paraphlebs singularis Aurivillius, 1921
• Parapluda invitabilis (Wallengren, 1860)
• Parapluda neglecta (Hering, 1928)
• Parasa chapmani Kirby, 1892
• Probalintha inclusa Walker, 1865
• Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick, 1918)
• Pseudothosea albisignata Janse, 1964
• Scotinocerides fasciata Hering, 1937
• Scotinocerides pseudorestricta Hering, 1937
• Scotinochroa diplothysana Tams, 1932
• Scotinochroa inconsequens Butler, 1897
• Scotinochroa rufescens Janse, 1964
• Semyrilla lineata (Holland, 1893)
• Sporetolepis platti Janse, 1964
• Stroter capillatus Karsch, 1899
• Stroter dukei Janse, 1964
• Stroter intermissa (Walker, 1865)
• Susicena pyrocausta (Hampson, 1910)
• Taeda aetitis Wallengren, 1863
• Taeda connexa (Janse, 1964)
• Taeda gemmans (Felder, 1874)
• Thosea platti West, 1937
• Trachyptena holobrunnea (Janse, 1964)
• Trogocrada deleter Tams, 1953
• Trogocrada dimorpha Janse, 1964
• Unipectiphora delosignata Janse, 1964
• Zarachella specularis Jordan, 1915
• Zinara discophora Hampson, 1910
• Zinara nervosa Walker, 1869
• Zorostola melanoxantha Janse, 1964

• Aclonophlebia rhodea Hampson, 1905
• Aroa anthora (Felder, 1874)
• Aroa difficilis Walker, 1865
• Aroa discalis Walker, 1855
• Aroa melanoleuca Hampson, 1905
• Bicelluphora argentea Janse, 1915

• Bracharoa dregei (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Bracharoa mixta (Snellen, 1872)
• Bracharoa quadripunctata (Wallengren, 1875)
• Bracharoa tricolor (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
• Cimola opalina Walker, 1855
• Creagra liturata (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
• Cropera phlebitis (Hampson, 1905)
• Cropera sericea (Hampson, 1910)
• Cropera stilpnaroma Hering, 1926
• Cropera testacea Walker, 1855
• Crorema adspersa (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Crorema fulvinotata (Butler, 1893)
• Crorema nigropunctata Collenette, 1931
• Crorema setinoides (Holland, 1893)
• Dasychira pennatula (Fabricius, 1793)
• Dasychira polia Hering, 1926
• Dasychira punctifera (Walker, 1857)
• Dicranuropsis vilis Felder, 1874
• Eudasychira georgiana (Fawcett, 1900)
• Eudasychira metathermes (Hampson, 1905)
• Eudasychira poliotis (Hampson, 1910)
• Eudasychira proleprota (Hampson, 1905)
• Euproctis aethiopica (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Euproctis beato Bryk, 1934
• Euproctis bicolor Janse, 1915
• Euproctis chionea Collenette, 1956
• Euproctis crocata (Boisduval, 1847)
• Euproctis flavicincta Janse, 1915
• Euproctis haemodetes Hampson, 1905
• Euproctis hardenbergia (Janse, 1915)
• Euproctis iridescens Janse, 1915
• Euproctis melanura (Wallengren, 1860)
• Euproctis nigripuncta Janse, 1915
• Euproctis pallida (Kirby, 1896)
• Euproctis petavia (Stoll, 1782)
• Euproctis producta (Walker, 1863)
• Euproctis punctifera (Walker, 1855)
• Euproctis rufopunctata (Walker, 1862)
• Euproctis sanguigutta Hampson, 1905
• Euproctis squamosa (Walker, 1855)
• Euproctis straminicolor Janse, 1915
• Euproctis subalba (Janse, 1915)
• Euproctis terminalis (Walker, 1854)
• Euproctoides ertli (Wichgraf, 1922)
• Hemerophanes diatoma (Hering, 1926)
• Hemerophanes libyra (Druce, 1896)
• Homochira rendalli (Distant, 1897)
• Homoeomeria flavicapilla (Wallengren, 1860)
• Homoeomeria nivea Aurivillius, 1909
• Knappetra arenacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Knappetra fasciata (Walker, 1855)
• Lacipa bizonoides Butler, 1893
• Lacipa distanti Dewitz, 1881
• Lacipa florida (Swinhoe, 1903)
• Lacipa gemmata Distant, 1897
• Lacipa nobilis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Lacipa picta (Boisduval, 1847)
• Lacipa pulverea Distant, 1898
• Lacipa quadripunctata Dewitz, 1881
• Lacipa sarcistis Hampson, 1905
• Lacipa sexpunctata Distant, 1897
• Laelia albimaculata (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia amata (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia amaura Hering, 1926
• Laelia angustipennis (Walker, 1855)
• Laelia aurea Janse, 1915
• Laelia aurivillii (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia basifurca (Walker, 1865)
• Laelia batoides Plötz, 1880
• Laelia bifascia Hampson, 1905
• Laelia bonaberiensis (Strand, 1915)
• Laelia bryophilina (Hampson, 1910)
• Laelia clarki Janse, 1915
• Laelia confinis (Distant, 1899)
• Laelia curvivirgata Karsch, 1895
• Laelia danva (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Laelia diascia Hampson, 1905
• Laelia ecscota (Hampson, 1905)
• Laelia esthlopis (Collenette, 1953)
• Laelia extatura (Distant, 1897)
• Laelia extorta (Distant, 1897)
• Laelia figlina Distant, 1899
• Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Laelia fusca (Walker, 1855)
• Laelia gephyra (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia haematica Hampson, 1905
• Laelia hampsoni (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia herbida (Walker, 1856)
• Laelia hughesi (Collenette, 1933)
• Laelia janenschi Hering, 1926
• Laelia lavia Swinhoe, 1903
• Laelia lunensis (Hampson, 1905)
• Laelia mediofasciata (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia melaxantha (Walker, 1865)
• Laelia municipalis Distant, 1897
• Laelia nigripulverea Janse, 1915
• Laelia nubifuga (Holland, 1893)
• Laelia octophora (Hampson, 1905)
• Laelia phenax (Collenette, 1932)
• Laelia pluto (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia postpura (Hampson, 1905)
• Laelia pulcherrima (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia punctulata (Butler, 1875)
• Laelia pyrosoma (Hampson, 1910)
• Laelia robusta Janse, 1915
• Laelia rocana (Swinhoe, 1906)
• Laelia rosea Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Laelia subrosea (Walker, 1855)
• Laelia subviridis Janse, 1915
• Laelia swinnyi Janse, 1915
• Laelia thanatos (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia xyleutis Hampson, 1905
• Lepidopalpus hyalina Janse, 1915
• Leptaroa paupera Hering, 1926
• Leucoma monosticta (Butler, 1898)
• Leucoma ogovensis (Holland, 1893)
• Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
• Lymantria disparina (Hering, 1926)
• Lymantria kettlewelli Collenette, 1953
• Lymantria tacita Hering, 1927
• Marblepsis flabellaria (Fabricius, 1787)
• Marblepsis melanocraspis (Hampson, 1905)
• Micraroa minima Janse, 1915
• Micraroa rufescens Hampson, 1905
• Morasa modesta Walker, 1855
• Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
• Ogoa simplex Walker, 1856
• Olapa fulviceps Hampson, 1910
• Olapa furva Hampson, 1905
• Olapa nigricosta Hampson, 1905
• Olapa nuda Holland, 1893
• Olene basalis (Walker, 1855)
• Palasea albimacula Wallengren, 1863
• Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
• Paraproctis chionopeza Collenette, 1954
• Penthophera lutea (Boisduval, 1847)
• Penthophera subfusca (Boisduval, 1847)
• Pirga pellucida Wichgraf, 1922
• Pirga transvalensis Janse, 1915
• Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855
• Psalis africana Kiriakoff, 1956
• Psalis securis Hübner, 1823
• Pseudobazisa perculta (Distant, 1897)
• Pseudobazisa sericea (Hampson, 1910)
• Pteredoa monosticta (Butler, 1898)
• Pteredoa plumosa Hampson, 1905
• Pteredoa usebia (Swinhoe, 1903)
• Repena fusca Walker, 1856
• Rhypopteryx diplogramma Hering, 1927
• Rhypopteryx hemichrysa Collenette, 1960
• Rhypopteryx lugardi (Swinhoe, 1903)
• Rhypopteryx rhodalipha (Felder, 1874)
• Rhypopteryx rhodea (Hampson, 1905
• Rhypopteryx rubripunctata (Weymer, 1892)
• Ruanda furva (Hampson, 1905)
• Ruanda nuda (Holland, 1897)
• Schalidomitra ambages Strand, 1911
• Stracena bananae (Butler, 1897)
• Stracena tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
• Stracena telesilla (Druce, 1899)
• Tearosoma aspersum Felder, 1874

• Chrysolytis deliarcha Meyrick, 1937
• Copobathra menodora Meyrick, 1911
• Crobylophora daricella Meyrick, 1881
• Crobylophora metallifera (Walsingham, 1891)
• Crobylophora xanthochyta Meyrick, 1918
• Cycloponympha julia Meyrick, 1913
• Cycloponympha perspicua Meyrick, 1913
• Leucoptera autograpta Meyrick, 1918
• Leucoptera clerodendrella Vári, 1955
• Leucoptera loxaula Meyrick, 1928
• Leucoptera meyricki Ghesquière, 1940
• Leucoptera obelacma Meyrick, 1918
• Leucoptera parinaricola Vári, 1955
• Leucoptera pulchricola Vári, 1955
• Leucoptera scammatias Meyrick, 1909
• Lyonetia cotifraga Meyrick, 1909
• Phyllobrostis apathetica (Meyrick, 1921)
• Phyllobrostis argillosa Meyrick, 1911
• Phyllobrostis calcaria Meyrick, 1911
• Pilotocoma tephroleuca Meyrick, 1913

• Arbelodes agassizi Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes albitorquata (Hampson, 1910)
• Arbelodes collaris Aurivillius, 1921
• Arbelodes deprinsi Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes dicksoni Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes flavicolor (Janse, 1925)
• Arbelodes franziskae Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes griseata (Janse, 1925)
• Arbelodes haberlandorum Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes iridescens (Janse, 1925)
• Arbelodes kruegeri Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes meridialis Karsch, 1896
• Arbelodes mondeensis Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes sebelensis Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes shimonii Lehmann, 2010
• Arbelodes sticticosta (Hampson, 1910)
• Arbelodes varii Lehmann, 2010
• Indarbela tegula (Distant, 1897)
• Kroonia natalica (Hampson, 1910)
• Lebedodes castanea Janse, 1925
• Lebedodes reticulata Gaede, 1929
• Lebedodes rufithorax Hampson, 1910
• Lebedodes wichgrafi (Grünberg, 1910)
• Marshalliana jansei Gaede, 1929
• Metarbela costistrigata Hampson, 1920
• Metarbela cymaphora Hampson, 1910
• Metarbela dialeuca Hampson, 1910
• Metarbela tuckeri (Butler, 1875)
• Ortharbela albivenata (Hampson, 1910)
• Paralebedella carnescens (Hampson, 1910)
• Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910
• Salagena reticulata Janse, 1925
• Salagena tessellata Distant, 1897
• Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
• Teragra althodes Hampson, 1920
• Teragra conspersa Walker, 1855
• Teragra guttifera Hampson, 1910
• Teragra irvingi Janse, 1925
• Teragra vogti Bethune-Baker, 1927

• Agrionympha capensis Whalley, 1978
• Agrionympha fuscoapicella Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha jansella Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha karoo Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha kroonella Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha pseliacma Meyrick, 1921
• Agrionympha pseudovari Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha sagitella Gibbs, 2011
• Agrionympha vari Whalley, 1978

About 118 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Nepticulidae)

About 1,323 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Noctuidae)

• Acripia chloropera Hampson, 1902
• Acripia leprosa (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Acripia scapularis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Acripia semiviridis Hampson, 1902
• Acripia subolivacea Walker, 1863
• Aiteta veluta Hampson, 1912
• Arcyophora elegantula Grünberg, 1910
• Arcyophora longivalvis Guenée, 1852
• Arcyophora nudipes Wallengren, 1856
• Blenina albifascia Pinhey, 1968
• Blenina diagona Hampson, 1912
• Blenina squamifera (Wallengren, 1860)
• Bryophilopsis curvifera Hampson, 1912
• Bryophilopsis tarachoides Mabille, 1900
• Bryothripa miophaea Hampson, 1912
• Characoma melanographa Hampson, 1918
• Characoma miophora Hampson, 1912
• Characoma nigricollaris Hampson, 1918
• Characoma stictigrapta Hampson, 1914
• Characoma submediana Wiltshire, 1986
• Cremopalpus inquirendus Strand, 1909
• Cryptothripa polyhymnia (Hampson, 1902)
• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• Gigantoceras rectilinea Hampson, 1912
• Goniocalpe heteromorpha Hampson, 1920
• Goniocalpe sericealis (Hampson, 1902)
• Labanda bryochlora Hampson, 1902
• Leocyma appollinis Guenée, 1852
• Leocyma discophora Hampson, 1912
• Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912
• Maurilia arcuata (Walker, [1858])
• Meganola infuscata (Hampson, 1903)
• Meganola lucia (van Son, 1933)
• Meganola subalbalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Metanola gladstonei van Son, 1933
• Metanola myriostigma van Son, 1933
• Neaxestis acutangula Hampson, 1902
• Neaxestis rhoda Hampson, 1905
• Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858)
• Negeta ruficeps (Hampson, 1902)
• Nola argyrolepis Hampson, 1907
• Nola barbertonensis (van Son, 1933)
• Nola bicincta Hampson, 1905
• Nola holoscota Hampson, 1920
• Nola imitata (van Son, 1933)
• Nola internella (Walker, 1865)
• Nola iridescens (van Son, 1933)
• Nola leucalea Hampson, 1907
• Nola major Hampson, 1891
• Nola melanoscelis (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola meridionalis Wallengren, 1875
• Nola mesoscota Hampson, 1909
• Nola monofascia van Son, 1933
• Nola patricia van Son, 1933
• Nola phaeocraspis (Hampson, 1909)
• Nola poliotis Hampson, 1907
• Nola praefica Saalmüller, 1884
• Nola sarniensis (van Son, 1933)
• Nola socotrensis (Hampson, 1901)
• Nola squalida Staudinger, 1870
• Nola steniphona van Son, 1933
• Nola swierstrai van Son, 1933
• Nola taeniata Snellen, 1874
• Nola tineoides (Walker, [1858])
• Nola transitoria van Son, 1933
• Nolidia carolinae van Son, 1933
• Nolidia unipuncta van Son, 1933
• Nycteola malachitis (Hampson, 1912)
• Oedicraspis subfervida Hampson, 1912
• Paranola bipartita van Son, 1933
• Paranola nigristriga van Son, 1933
• Paraxestis rufescens Hampson, 1902
• Pardasena atripuncta Hampson, 1912
• Pardasena minorella Walker, 1866
• Pardasena punctata Hampson, 1902
• Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• Periplusia cinerascens Holland, 1894
• Poecilonola littoralis van Son, 1933
• Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881
• Risoba sticticraspis Hampson, 1912
• Selepa docilis Butler, 1881
• Selepa leucogonia (Hampson, 1905)
• Selepa rufescens Hampson, 1912
• Selepa transvalica Hampson, 1912
• Vandamia lightfooti van Son, 1933
• Vandamia mariepi van Son, 1933
• Vandamia typica van Son, 1933
• Westermannia araeogramma Hampson, 1905
• Westermannia argyroplaga Hampson, 1905
• Westermannia convergens Hampson, 1902
• Westermannia roseitincta Pinhey, 1968
• Westermannia superba Hübner, 1823
• Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

• Acrasiella curvilinea (Swinhoe, 1907)
• Adrallia bipunctata Walker, 1865
• Afrogluphisia demas Kiriakoff, 1970
• Afroplitis dasychirina (Gaede, 1928)
• Afroplitis phyllocampa (Trimen, 1909)
• Amphiphalera nigripuncta Kiriakoff, 1975
• Amyops ingens Karsch, 1895
• Anaphe panda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Anaphe reticulata Walker, 1855
• Antheua anodonta (Hampson, 1910)
• Antheua aurifodinae (Distant, 1902)
• Antheua consanguinea Distant, 1903
• Antheua croceipuncta Hampson, 1910
• Antheua delicata Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Antheua dimorpha Janse, 1920
• Antheua extenuata Walker, 1869
• Antheua insignata Gaede, 1928
• Antheua mixta Janse, 1920
• Antheua ornata (Walker, 1865)
• Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
• Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855
• Antheua woerdeni (Snellen, 1872)
• Antheuella flavida (Hampson, 1910)
• Antheuella incana (Janse, 1920)
• Anticleapa varii Kiriakoff, 1970
• Archistilbia varii Kiriakoff, 1970
• Arciera phragmatoecioides (Rothschild, 1917)
• Atrasana nigrosignata Kiriakoff, 1975
• Atrasana postica Walker, 1856
• Atrasana rectilinea (Gaede, 1928)
• Atrasana uncifera (Hampson, 1910)
• Batempa plana Kiriakoff, 1962
• Bilulua strigata Kiriakoff, 1954
• Bisolita rubrifascia (Hampson, 1910)
• Bisolita strigata (Aurivillius, 1906)
• Catastygne tristicolor (Gaede, 1928)
• Catochria catocaloides Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Catochria postflava Kiriakoff, 1955
• Cerurella natalensis Kiriakoff, 1962
• Chlorocalliope calliope (Hampson, 1910)
• Chlorocalliope subvernalis Kiriakoff, 1958
• Chlorochadisra viridipulverea (Gaede, 1928)
• Clostera lentisignata (Hampson, 1910)
• Clostera limacodina Kühne, 2010
• Clostera roseotincta (Janse, 1920)
• Clostera violacearia (Janse, 1920)
• Clostera vumba Kiriakoff, 1981
• Crambometra derelicta Prout, 1915
• Crambometra gladstonei (Janse, 1920)
• Crambometra vandenbergae Kiriakoff, 1981
• Dasychirella cinderella Kiriakoff, 1970
• Deinarchia agramma (Hampson, 1910)
• Desmeocraera atribasalis (Hampson, 1910)
• Desmeocraera basalis Distant, 1899
• Desmeocraera congoana Aurivillius, 1900
• Desmeocraera dorsalis Kiriakoff, 1981
• Desmeocraera griseiviridis (Hampson, 1910)
• Desmeocraera interpellatrix (Wallengren, 1860)
• Desmeocraera jansei Kiriakoff, 1958
• Desmeocraera latex (Druce, 1901)
• Desmeocraera nugatrix Felder, 1874
• Desmeocraera octoginta (Hampson, 1910)
• Desmeocraera platti Janse, 1920
• Desmeocraera tripuncta Janse, 1920
• Desmeocraera uniformis Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera vernalis Distant, 1897
• Desmeocraera zombae Kiriakoff, 1958
• Disracha persimilis (Hampson, 1910)
• Elaphrodes duplex (Gaede, 1928)
• Epanaphe clarilla Aurivillius, 1904
• Epicerulella imitans Kiriakoff, 1981
• Epicerura pergrisea (Hampson, 1910)
• Epicerura steniptera (Hampson, 1910)
• Epidonta brunneomixta (Mabille, 1897)
• Euanthia venosa Kiriakoff, 1962
• Eubreyeria dasychiroides (Janse, 1920)
• Eurystaura brunnea Janse, 1920
• Eurystaura griseitincta (Hampson, 1910)
• Eurystauridia medialis (Gaede, 1928)
• Eurystauridia triangularis (Gaede, 1928)
• Eutimia marpissa Wallengren, 1858
• Graphodonta fulva (Kiriakoff, 1962)
• Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910)
• Haplozana nigrolineata Aurivillius, 1901
• Iostaura jansei Kiriakoff, 1970
• Iridoplitis iridescens Kiriakoff, 1955
• Janthinisca badia Kiriakoff, 1979
• Janthinisca linda Kiriakoff, 1979
• Jozinia leonina Kiriakoff, 1970
• Lopiena decorata Kiriakoff, 1975
• Metascrancia jansei Kiriakoff, 1970
• Metopteryx cinerea (Janse, 1920)
• Metopteryx rattus (Kiriakoff, 1970)
• Notocerura spiritalis (Distant, 1899)
• Notoxantha sesamiodes Hampson, 1910
• Odontoperas heterogyna (Hampson, 1910)
• Odontoperas obliqualinea (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Odontoperas rosacea Kiriakoff, 1959
• Paradiastema pulverea Hampson, 1910
• Pararethona hierax (Distant, 1897)
• Peratodonta gypsitea (Kiriakoff, 1968)
• Phalera imitata Druce, 1896
• Phalera lignitea Mabille, 1900
• Phalera lydenburgi Distant, 1899
• Phycitimorpha stigmatica Janse, 1920
• Phyllaliodes agramma Hampson, 1910
• Phyllaliodes poliostrota (Hampson, 1910)
• Polelassothys plumitarsus Janse, 1920
• Polienus capillata (Wallengren, 1875)
• Polienus fuscatus Janse, 1920
• Polienus rubritincta (Hampson, 1910)
• Psalisodes defasciata Gaede, 1928
• Pseudorethona albicans (Walker, 1855)
• Pseudoscrancia africana (Holland, 1893)
• Quista cinereomixta Kiriakoff, 1959
• Rasemia dasychira (Hampson, 1910)
• Rasemia euzopherodes (Hampson, 1910)
• Rasemia macrodonta (Hampson, 1909)
• Rhenea mediata (Walker, 1865)
• Rhenea rufescens Kiriakoff, 1954
• Riebeeckia whittakeri Kiriakoff, 1981
• Rosinella rosinaria (Hampson, 1910)
• Sarimarais bicolor (Distant, 1899)
• Sarimarais peringueyi (Janse, 1920)
• Sarimarais quarta Kiriakoff, 1962
• Scalmicauda oneili Janse, 1920
• Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911)
• Scrancia atrifrons Hampson, 1910
• Scrancia brunnescens Gaede, 1928
• Scrancia discomma Jordan, 1916
• Scrancia elanus Kiriakoff, 1971
• Scrancia galactoperoides Kiriakoff, 1970
• Scrancia milvus Kiriakoff, 1971
• Scrancia stictica Hampson, 1910
• Simesia dasychiroides (Butler, 1898)
• Stemmatophalera semiflava (Hampson, 1910)
• Stenostaura impeditus (Walker, 1865)
• Stenostaura minutissima Kiriakoff, 1970
• Stenostaura subtilis Kiriakoff, 1970
• Stenostaura varians (Kiriakoff, 1962)
• Subscrancia albobrunnea Kiriakoff, 1970
• Subscrancia nigra (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Synete olivaceofusca (Rothschild, 1917)
• Thaumetopoea apologetica Strand, 1909
• Trotonotus bettoni Butler, 1898

• Aeoloscelis tripoda Meyrick, 1913
• Agroecodes comata Meyrick, 1937
• Alabonia coarctata (Walsingham, 1881)
• Amphipseustis disputanda Meyrick, 1921
• Anchinia furculata Meyrick, 1924
• Anchinia oenochares Meyrick, 1924
• Antaeotricha ovata Walsingham, 1881
• Areocosma orsobela Meyrick, 1917
• Aulotropha pentasticta Meyrick, 1918
• Batia decurrens (Meyrick, 1918)
• Borkhausenia intumescens Meyrick, 1921
• Briarostoma pyrrhopsamma Meyrick, 1920
• Ceranthes apellodora Meyrick, 1926
• Ceranthes syncrotaula Meyrick, 1926
• Ceranthes thiota Meyrick, 1918
• Chalcorectis argoplecta Meyrick, 1937
• Choronoma isoxysta Meyrick, 1926
• Coesyra balantias Meyrick, 1908
• Coesyra campylotis Meyrick, 1914
• Coesyra centrobola Meyrick, 1914
• Coesyra rutila Meyrick, 1912
• Crystallogenes chalcoschista Meyrick, 1937
• Diocosma callichroa Meyrick, 1909
• Diocosma ceramopis Meyrick, 1909
• Diocosma eotrocha Meyrick, 1918
• Diocosma molybdela Meyrick, 1917
• Diocosma obliquestrigella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Diocosma tricycla Meyrick, 1909
• Diocosma zarifa Meyrick, 1921
• Doxomeres diaxantha Meyrick, 1917
• Endrosis psammodora Meyrick, 1921
• Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Epiphractis aulica Meyrick, 1912
• Epiphractis crocoplecta Meyrick, 1913
• Epiphractis imbellis Meyrick, 1914
• Epiphractis rubricata Meyrick, 1913
• Epiphractis sarcopa (Meyrick, 1909)
• Epiphractis thysanarcha Meyrick, 1918
• Eucleodora chalybeella Walsingham, 1881
• Eucleodora ingrata Meyrick, 1913
• Eulechria phaeopsamma Meyrick, 1913
• Harpella scolopistis Meyrick, 1909
• Hednophora pyritis Meyrick, 1911
• Heterozyga gyrospila Meyrick, 1918
• Hypercallia haematella Felder, 1875
• Hypercallia sincera Meyrick, 1909
• Hypercallia subreticulata Walsingham, 1881
• Isocrita eremasta Meyrick, 1914
• Isocrita ithydoxa Meyrick, 1920
• Isocrita protophanes Meyrick, 1927
• Isocrita psalactis Meyrick, 1912
• Isocrita stolarcha Meyrick, 1909
• Meloteles xanthodoxa Meyrick, 1920
• Metachanda citrodesma (Meyrick, 1911)
• Metachanda oxyacma Meyrick, 1928
• Metachanda trimetopa Meyrick, 1937
• Ocystola proxena Meyrick, 1914
• Oedematopoda illucens (Meyrick, 1914)
• Oedematopoda princeps (Zeller, 1852)
• Opsigenes parastacta Meyrick, 1918
• Oxyscopa dealbata Meyrick, 1926
• Pachyrhabda triplecta Meyrick, 1913
• Pachyrhabda unctoria Meyrick, 1911
• Parapleuris oxycrena Meyrick, 1937
• Philametris aethalopa Meyrick, 1924
• Philobota chalinitis Meyrick, 1909
• Philobota dryinota Meyrick, 1914
• Philobota erastis Meyrick, 1910
• Philobota tectifera Meyrick, 1909
• Philobota virgo Walsingham, 1891
• Phratriodes curvisignis Meyrick, 1926
• Picrogenes bactrospila Meyrick, 1917
• Plesiosticha acida (Meyrick, 1911)
• Plesiosticha endocentra (Meyrick, 1914)
• Plesiosticha galactaea (Meyrick, 1908)
• Pleurota drucella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Promalactis geometrica Meyrick, 1913
• Promalactis recurva Meyrick, 1914
• Promalactis scalmotoma Meyrick, 1918
• Promalactis sphaerograpta Meyrick, 1937
• Promalactis veridica Meyrick, 1913
• Protomacha conservata Meyrick, 1918
• Protomacha sosigona Meyrick, 1920
• Rhoecoptera gigas (Walsingham, 1891)
• Saropla dryozona Meyrick, 1913
• Schiffermuelleria helminthias Meyrick, 1918
• Schiffermuelleria pedicata Meyrick, 1918
• Selidoris deligata (Meyrick, 1921)
• Stathmopoda arcata Meyrick, 1913
• Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
• Stathmopoda autoxantha Meyrick, 1913
• Stathmopoda citrinopis Meyrick, 1927
• Stathmopoda crassella Walsingham, 1891
• Stathmopoda ficivora Kasy, 1973
• Stathmopoda glyceropa Meyrick, 1915
• Stathmopoda hemiplecta Meyrick, 1921
• Stathmopoda luminata Meyrick, 1911
• Stathmopoda lychnacma (Meyrick, 1927)
• Stathmopoda maculata Walsingham, 1891
• Stathmopoda pomifera Meyrick, 1913
• Stathmopoda trichodora (Meyrick, 1909)
• Stathmopoda xanthoplitis Meyrick, 1908
• Tanyzancla diorycta Meyrick, 1920
• Tanyzancla semistricta Meyrick, 1920
• Teratopsis tunicella Walsingham, 1881
• Thamnocrana haemorrhoa Meyrick, 1927
• Thyestarcha acrogypsa Meyrick, 1917
• Thyestarcha edax Meyrick, 1912

• Opostega amphimitra Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega cirrhacma Meyrick, 1911
• Opostega diplardis Meyrick, 1921
• Opostega granifera Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega idiocoma Meyrick, 1918
• Opostega melitardis Meyrick, 1918
• Opostega pelocrossa Meyrick, 1928
• Opostega phaeosoma Meyrick, 1928
• Opostega praefusca Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega radiosa Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega symbolica Meyrick, 1914
• Opostega tincta Meyrick, 1918
• Pseudopostega bellicosa (Meyrick, 1911)
• Pseudopostega clastozona (Meyrick, 1913)

• Gypsosaris coniata Meyrick, 1909
• Lepocnemis bascanopa Meyrick, 1913
• Plutella balanopis Meyrick, 1909
• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Lampronia albifusa Meyrick, 1926
• Sindonophora leucozona Meyrick, 1917

• Prototheora biserrata Davis, 1996
• Prototheora cooperi Janse, 1942
• Prototheora corvifera (Meyrick, 1920)
• Prototheora drackensbergae Davis, 1996
• Prototheora geniculata Davis, 1996
• Prototheora merga Davis, 1996
• Prototheora monoglossa Meyrick, 1924
• Prototheora parachlora (Meyrick, 1919)
• Prototheora petrosema Meyrick, 1917
• Prototheora quadricornis Meyrick, 1920
• Prototheora serruligera Meyrick, 1920

• Acanthopsyche roomei Bourgogne, 1984
• Acanthopsyche tristis Janse, 1917
• Amydria poliodes Meyrick, 1909
• Australoplacodoma bicolorata Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
• Bacotia trimenii (Heylaerts, 1891)
• Bambalina africa Bourgogne, 1984
• Barbaroscardia metaclina Meyrick, 1920
• Bythogenes atechna Meyrick, 1937
• Cathalistis orinephela Meyrick, 1917
• Commotrias eucolapta Meyrick, 1924
• Cryptothelea zelleri (Heylaerts, 1884)
• Ctenocompa famula Meyrick, 1920
• Ctenocompa perlucescens Meyrick, 1927
• Ctenocompa vafra Meyrick, 1921
• Ctenocompa zascia Meyrick, 1920
• Deborreides febrettina (Bourgogne, 1965)
• Diaphanopsyche rogenhoferi (Heylaerts, 1890)
• Dissoctena affinis Walsingham, 1891
• Epaleura salaria Meyrick, 1917
• Epichnopterix transvalica Hampson, 1910
• Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
• Eumeta hardenbergeri Bourgogne, 1955
• Eumeta zelleri Heylaerts, 1884
• Fallacipsyche adelpha Bourgogne, 1977
• Gymnelema discerpta Meyrick, 1924
• Gymnelema holopercna Meyrick, 1924
• Gymnelema leucopasta Hampson, 1910
• Gymnelema pelverulenta Hampson, 1910
• Gymnelema plebigena Meyrick, 1924
• Gymnelema stibarodes (Meyrick, 1909)
• Gymnelema stygialis Hampson, 1910
• Gymnelema vinctus (Walker, 1865)
• Janseides subhyalina (Janse, 1917)
• Kotochalia junodi (Heylaerts, 1890)
• Lasioctena sisyraea Meyrick, 1887
• Lytrophila humida Meyrick, 1913
• Lytrophila ingeminata Meyrick, 1914
• Lytrophila panarga Meyrick, 1913
• Lytrophila phaulopa Meyrick, 1921
• Lytrophila sporarcha Meyrick, 1921
• Mallobathra zophaula Meyrick, 1920
• Melasina hippias Meyrick, 1921
• Melasina lanyphaea Meyrick, 1924
• Melasina nigra Meyrick, 1910
• Mesopherna incultella (Walker, 1864)
• Metisa aethiops (Hampson, 1910)
• Metisa heylaertsi (Junod, 1898)
• Metisa jansei Bourgogne, 1973
• Monda bicolor Strand, 1911
• Monda delicatissima Walker, 1865
• Narycia antibatis Meyrick, 1926
• Narycia centropa Meyrick, 1922
• Narycia isoxantha Meyrick, 1920
• Narycia prothyrodes Meyrick, 1921
• Narycia saccharata (Meyrick, 1914)
• Narycia transvaalicola Strand, 1929
• Oiketicoides maledicta (Scheben, 1910)
• Penestoglossa capensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
• Picrospora achlyota (Meyrick, 1926)
• Picrospora amalthea (Meyrick, 1937)
• Picrospora anastrota Meyrick, 1912
• Picrospora araea Meyrick, 1912
• Picrospora chrysochalca (Meyrick, 1926)
• Picrospora coniographa (Meyrick, 1928)
• Picrospora crocostacta (Meyrick, 1912)
• Picrospora frigens (Meyrick, 1921)
• Picrospora furcifera (Meyrick, 1920)
• Picrospora inops (Meyrick, 1921)
• Picrospora isometra (Meyrick, 1926)
• Picrospora lithacopa Meyrick, 1920
• Picrospora medicata (Meyrick, 1914)
• Picrospora ochrophragma (Meyrick, 1920)
• Picrospora protocentra Meyrick, 1921
• Picrospora purgata Meyrick, 1913
• Picrospora secura (Meyrick, 1912)
• Picrospora selmatarcha (Meyrick, 1921)
• Placodoma fulva Sobczyk & Mey, 2007
• Pseudometisa alba (Janse, 1917)
• Psyche fatalis Meyrick, 1926
• Psyche luticoma (Meyrick, 1918)
• Psyche obscurata Meyrick, 1917
• Psyche ominosa (Meyrick, 1918)
• Psyche pinicola Meyrick, 1937
• Sapheneutis certificata Meyrick, 1918
• Sapheneutis galactodes Meyrick, 1915
• Sapheneutis thlipsias Meyrick, 1915
• Sclerophricta tyreuta Meyrick, 1918
• Sematocera fuliginipuncta Durrant, 1892
• Taleporia discussa Meyrick, 1921
• Taleporia mesochlora Meyrick, 1918
• Taleporia sciacta Meyrick, 1921
• Thranitica hemicopa Meyrick, 1908
• Trichocossus albiguttata Hampson, 1910
• Trichocossus arvensis Janse, 1917
• Typhonia abacodes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia amica (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia animosa (Meyrick, 1913)
• Typhonia bettoni (Butler, 1898)
• Typhonia circophora (Meyrick, 1909)
• Typhonia cnaphalodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Typhonia craterodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Typhonia cylindraula (Meyrick, 1920)
• Typhonia dissoluta (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia effervescens (Meyrick, 1911)
• Typhonia gypsopetra (Meyrick, 1937)
• Typhonia halieutis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia homopercna (Meyrick, 1920)
• Typhonia indigena (Meyrick, 1917)
• Typhonia interscissa (Meyrick, 1924)
• Typhonia inveterata (Meyrick, 1915)
• Typhonia linodyta (Meyrick, 1921)
• Typhonia liochra (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia marmarodes (Meyrick, 1920)
• Typhonia mylica (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia nectaritis (Meyrick, 1915)
• Typhonia nigrescens (Meyrick, 1920)
• Typhonia paraphrictis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia pelostrota (Meyrick, 1927)
• Typhonia petrodes (Meyrick, 1914)
• Typhonia picea (Meyrick, 1917)
• Typhonia salicoma (Meyrick, 1918)
• Typhonia stelitis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia stupea (Wallengren, 1875)
• Typhonia susurrans (Meyrick, 1911)
• Typhonia systolaea (Meyrick, 1908)
• Typhonia talaria (Meyrick, 1924)
• Typhonia tanyphaea (Meyrick, 1924)
• Typhonia tyrophanes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Zelomora phlyctidota Meyrick, 1920

• Adaina gentilis Meyrick, 1911
• Adaina periarga Meyrick, 1913
• Agdistis africana Arenberger, 1996
• Agdistis arenbergeri Gielis, 1986
• Agdistis clara Arenberger, 1986
• Agdistis cretifera Meyrick, 1909
• Agdistis criocephala Meyrick, 1909
• Agdistis darwini Arenberger, 2009
• Agdistis dentalis Arenberger, 1986
• Agdistis dicksoni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis dimetra Meyrick, 1924
• Agdistis eberti Arenberger, 2009
• Agdistis endrodyi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis furcata Arenberger, 1996
• Agdistis gibberipennis Arenberger, 1996
• Agdistis infumata Meyrick, 1912
• Agdistis jansei Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis karischi Arenberger, 1996
• Agdistis krooni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis kruegeri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis lomholdti Gielis, 1990
• Agdistis malitiosa Meyrick, 1909
• Agdistis malleana Arenberger, 1988
• Agdistis meyi Arenberger, 2008
• Agdistis obstinata Meyrick, 1920
• Agdistis piccolo Arenberger, 1986
• Agdistis potgieteri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Agdistis pustulalis Walker, 1864
• Agdistis quagga Arenberger, 2009
• Agdistis reciprocans Meyrick, 1924
• Agdistis spinosa Arenberger, 1986
• Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)
• Agdistis tsumkwe Arenberger, 2001
• Agdistis unguica Arenberger, 1986
• Agdistis varii Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2009
• Amblyptilia direptalis (Walker, 1864)
• Apoxyptilus anthites (Meyrick, 1936)
• Arcoptilia pongola Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Buckleria vanderwolfi Gielis, 2008
• Cosmoclostis brachybela T. B. Fletcher, 1947
• Eucapperia bullifera (Meyrick, 1918)
• Exelastis atomosa (Walsingham, 1885)
• Exelastis crepuscularis (Meyrick, 1909)
• Exelastis pavidus (Meyrick, 1889)
• Exelastis tenax (Meyrick, 1913)
• Gypsochares aulotes (Meyrick, 1911)
• Gypsochares catharotes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Gypsochares londti Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Hellinsia acuminatus (Meyrick, 1920)
• Hellinsia adumbratus (Walsingham, 1881)
• Hellinsia ammonias (Meyrick, 1909)
• Hellinsia callidus (Meyrick, 1913)
• Hellinsia colubratus (Meyrick, 1909)
• Hellinsia furfurosus (Meyrick, 1911)
• Hellinsia illutus (Meyrick, 1917)
• Hellinsia invidiosus (Meyrick, 1911)
• Hellinsia lienigianus (Zeller, 1852)
• Hellinsia pacifica (Meyrick, 1911)
• Hellinsia purus (Meyrick, 1913)
• Hellinsia serpens (Meyrick, 1909)
• Hellinsia sordidatus (Meyrick, 1912)
• Hellinsia sphenites (Meyrick, 1913)
• Hellinsia timidus (Meyrick, 1908)
• Hellinsia tripunctatus (Walsingham, 1881)
• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Macrotinactis stenodactylus (T. B. Fletcher, 1911)
• Marasmarcha bonaespei (Walsingham, 1881)
• Marasmarcha verax (Meyrick, 1909)
• Megalorhipida leptomeres (Meyrick, 1886)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Oxyptilus erythrodactylus T. B. Fletcher, 1911
• Oxyptilus variegatus Meyrick, 1920
• Oxyptilus vibrans Meyrick, 1921
• Picardia orchatias (Meyrick, 1908)
• Platyptilia amphiloga Meyrick, 1909
• Platyptilia barbarae Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Platyptilia corniculata Meyrick, 1913
• Platyptilia empedota Meyrick, 1908
• Platyptilia maligna Meyrick, 1913
• Platyptilia molopias Meyrick, 1906
• Platyptilia odiosa Meyrick, 1924
• Platyptilia patriarcha Meyrick, 1912
• Platyptilia periacta Meyrick, 1910
• Platyptilia sabius (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Pselnophorus astragalotes Meyrick, 1909
• Pselnophorus pachyceros Meyrick, 1921
• Pselnophorus zulu Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Pseudoxyptilus secutor (Meyrick, 1911)
• Pterophorus africanus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
• Pterophorus dallastai Gielis, 1991
• Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
• Pterophorus rhyparias (Meyrick, 1908)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Sphenarches caffer (Zeller, 1851)
• Stenodacma richardi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)
• Stenoptilia johnistella Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Stenoptilia longalis (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilia natalensis Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
• Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Titanoptilus laniger Bigot, 1969
• Titanoptilus patellatus Meyrick, 1913
• Trichoptilus animosus Meyrick, 1921
• Trichoptilus cryphias Meyrick, 1912
• Trichoptilus festus Meyrick, 1920
• Trichoptilus maceratus Meyrick, 1909
• Trichoptilus negotiosus Meyrick, 1926
• Trichoptilus varius Meyrick, 1909
• Trichoptilus viduus Meyrick, 1917
• Trichoptilus vivax Meyrick, 1909

About 506 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Pyralidae)

• Adafroptilum incana (Sonthonnax, 1899)
• Antistathmoptera daltonae Tams, 1935
• Antistathmoptera rectangulata Pinhey, 1968
• Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847)
• Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
• Aurivillius fusca (Rothschild, 1895)
• Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
• Bunaeopsis annabellae Lemaire & Rougeot, 1975
• Bunaeopsis arabella (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Bunaeopsis jacksoni (Jordan, 1908)
• Campimoptilum kuntzei (Dewitz, 1881)
• Cinabra hyperbius (Westwood, 1881)
• Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
• Decachorda fulvia (Druce, 1886)
• Eochroa trimenii Felder, 1874
• Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Epiphora manowensis (Gschwandner, 1923)
• Epiphora mythimnia (Westwood, 1849)
• Gonimbrasia anna (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1849)
• Gonimbrasia bubo (Bouvier, 1930)
• Gonimbrasia carnigiei (Janse, 1918)
• Gonimbrasia cytherea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Gonimbrasia perscitus (Darge, 1992)
• Gonimbrasia rectilineata (Sonthonnax, 1899)
• Gonimbrasia tyrrhea (Cramer, 1775)
• Gonimbrasia wahlbergii (Boisduval, 1847)
• Gonimbrasia zambesina (Walker, 1865)
• Gynanisa ata Strand, 1911
• Gynanisa maja (Klug, 1836)
• Gynanisa meridiei Darge, 2008
• Heniocha apollonia (Cramer, 1779)
• Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872)
• Heniocha marnois (Rogenhofer, 1891)
• Holocerina agomensis (Karsch, 1896)
• Holocerina smilax (Westwood, 1849)
• Imbrasia ertli Rebel, 1904
• Lobobunaea angasana (Westwood, 1849)
• Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
• Ludia delegorguei (Boisduval, 1847)
• Ludia goniata Rothschild, 1907
• Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1892
• Melanocera dargei Terral, 1991
• Melanocera menippe (Westwood, 1849)
• Micragone cana (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Micragone nubifera Bouvier, 1936
• Nudaurelia carnegiei Janse, 1918
• Nudaurelia gueinzii (Staudinger, 1872)
• Nudaurelia macrothyris (Rothschild, 1906)
• Orthogonioptilum adiegetum Karsch, 1892
• Pselaphelia flavivitta (Walker, 1862)
• Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Boisduval, 1847)
• Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
• Pseudobunaea epithyrena (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Pseudobunaea irius (Fabricius, 1793)
• Pseudobunaea tyrrhena (Westwood, 1849)
• Rohaniella pygmaea (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Tagoropsis flavinata (Walker, 1865)
• Urota sinope (Westwood, 1849)
• Usta terpsichore (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Usta wallengrenii (C. & R. Felder, 1859)
• Vegetia dewitzi (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Vegetia ducalis Jordan, 1922
• Vegetia grimmia (Geyer, 1831)

• Apoprogones hesperistis Hampson, 1903

• Alonina difformis Hampson, 1919
• Alonina rygchiiformis Walker, 1856
• Cabomina dracomontana de Freina, 2008
• Cabomina monicae de Freina, 2008
• Cabomina tsomoana de Freina, 2011
• Chamanthedon chalypsa Hampson, 1919
• Chamanthedon elymais (Druce, 1899)
• Chamanthedon heliostoma Meyrick, 1926
• Chamanthedon hilariformis (Walker, 1856)
• Chamanthedon leucopleura Hampson, 1919
• Chamanthedon ochracea (Walker, 1864)
• Chamanthedon tapeina Hampson, 1919
• Chamanthedon xanthopasta Hampson, 1919
• Grypopalpia iridescens Hampson, 1919
• Homogyna bartschi de Freina, 2011
• Homogyna endopyra (Hampson, 1910)
• Homogyna ignivittata Hampson, 1919
• Homogyna pyrophora Hampson, 1919
• Homogyna xanthophora (Hampson, 1910)
• Hypanthedon marisa (Druce, 1899)
• Melittia aureosquamata (Wallengren, 1863)
• Melittia ectothyris Hampson, 1919
• Melittia laniremis (Wallengren, 1860)
• Melittia natalensis Butler, 1874
• Melittia occidentalis Le Cerf, 1917
• Melittia oedipus Oberthür, 1878
• Melittia pyropis Hampson, 1919
• Melittia rufodorsa Hampson, 1910
• Melittia ursipes Walker, 1856
• Monopetalotaxis candescens (Felder, 1874)
• Monopetalotaxis doleriformis (Walker, 1856)
• Monopetalotaxis luteopunctata de Freina, 2011
• Monopetalotaxis pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910)
• Paranthrene mesothyris Hampson, 1919
• Paranthrene pythes (Druce, 1899)
• Paranthrene sanguipennis Meyrick, 1926
• Pseudomelittia andraenipennis (Walker, 1856)
• Sura bicolor Le Cerf, 1917
• Sura melanochalcia (Le Cerf, 1917)
• Sura xylocopiformis Walker, 1856
• Synanthedon chromolaenae (Eichlin, 2009)
• Synanthedon flavipalpis (Hampson, 1910)
• Synanthedon mesochoriformis (Walker, 1856)
• Synanthedon monozona (Hampson, 1910)
• Synanthedon platyuriformis (Walker, 1856)
• Synanthedon pyrethra (Hampson, 1910)
• Synanthedon rhodia (Druce, 1899)
• Synanthedon semirufa (Felder, 1874)
• Synanthedon stenothyris (Meyrick, 1933)
• Synanthedon tipuliformis (Clerck, 1759)
• Thyranthrene adumbrata Bartsch, 2008
• Thyranthrene metazonata Hampson, 1919
• Tipulamima tricincta (Le Cerf, 1916)

• Parapsycharium paarlense Geertsema, 2000
• Psycharium barnardi Geertsema, 1998
• Psycharium kammanassiense Geertsema, 1998
• Psycharium montanum Geertsema, 1998
• Psycharium natalense Geertsema, 1998
• Psycharium pellucens Herrich-Schäffer, 1856

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Afroclanis calcareus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1907)
• Afroclanis neavi (Hampson, 1910)
• Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Andriasa contraria Walker, 1856
• Antinephele lunulata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Antinephele maculifera Holland, 1889
• Atemnora westermannii (Boisduval, 1875)
• Basiothia aureata (Karsch, 1891)
• Basiothia charis (Boisduval, 1875)
• Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
• Basiothia schenki (Möschler, 1872)
• Batocnema africanus (Distant, 1899)
• Centroctena imitans (Butler, 1882)
• Cephonodes apus (Boisduval, 1833)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Cephonodes trochilus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
• Coelonia fulvinotata (Butler, 1875)
• Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Falcatula falcata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
• Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823)
• Hippotion rosae (Butler, 1882)
• Hippotion roseipennis (Butler, 1882)
• Hoplistopus penricei Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)
• Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891
• Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987
• Likoma apicalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Litosphingia corticea Jordan, 1920
• Lophostethus dumolinii (Angas, 1849)
• Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823)
• Macropoliana natalensis (Butler, 1875)
• Microsphinx pumilum (Boisduval, 1875)
• Neoclanis basalis (Walker, 1866)
• Neopolyptychus compar (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Neopolyptychus convexus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
• Nephele aequivalens (Walker, 1856)
• Nephele argentifera (Walker, 1856)
• Nephele bipartita Butler, 1878
• Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857
• Nephele lannini Jordan, 1926
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Nephele rosae Butler, 1875
• Nephele vau (Walker, 1856)
• Odontosida magnificum (Rothschild, 1894)
• Odontosida pusillus (Felder, 1874)
• Oligographa juniperi (Boisduval, 1847)
• Pantophaea favillacea (Walker, 1866)
• Pantophaea oneili (Clark, 1925)
• Phylloxiphia metria (Jordan, 1920)
• Phylloxiphia punctum (Rothschild, 1907)
• Phylloxiphia vicina (Rothschild & Jordan, 1915)
• Platysphinx piabilis (Distant, 1897)
• Polyptychoides grayii (Walker, 1856)
• Polyptychopsis marshalli (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Polyptychus baxteri Rothschild & Jordan, 1908
• Polyptychus coryndoni Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Praedora leucophaea Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Praedora marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Praedora plagiata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Pseudandriasa mutata (Walker, 1855)

• Pseudoclanis diana Gehlen, 1922
• Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
• Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856)
• Rhodafra marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Rhodafra opheltes (Cramer, 1780)
• Rufoclanis fulgurans (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Rufoclanis jansei (Vári, 1964)
• Rufoclanis numosae (Wallengren, 1860)
• Sphingonaepiopsis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904
• Sphingonaepiopsis nana (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora elegans (Rothschild, 1895)
• Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora funebris (Holland, 1893)
• Temnora iapygoides (Holland, 1889)
• Temnora inornatum (Rothschild, 1894)
• Temnora marginata (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora murina (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora namaqua Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Temnora natalis Walker, 1856
• Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856
• Temnora pseudopylas (Rothschild, 1894)
• Temnora pylades Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Temnora pylas (Cramer, 1779)
• Temnora robertsoni Carcasson, 1968
• Temnora sardanus (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora subapicalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Temnora swynnertoni Stevenson, 1938
• Temnora zantus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Theretra cajus (Cramer, 1777)
• Theretra capensis (Linnaeus, 1764)
• Theretra jugurtha (Boisduval, 1875)
• Theretra monteironis (Butler, 1882)
• Theretra orpheus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Xenosphingia jansei Jordan, 1920

• Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857
• Arniocera elata Jordan, 1915
• Arniocera erythropyga (Wallengren, 1860)
• Arniocera lugubris Gaede, 1926
• Arniocera zambesina (Walker, 1866)
• Banisia aldabrana (Fryer, 1912)
• Banisia jocatia (Whalley, 1971)
• Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Banisia zamia (Whalley, 1971)
• Bupota galbana Whalley, 1971
• Bupota tranquilla Whalley, 1971
• Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
• Cecidothyris pexa (Hampson, 1906)
• Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897
• Chrysotypus reticulatus Whalley, 1971
• Chrysotypus splendida (Warren, 1899)
• Chrysotypus subflavus Whalley, 1971
• Cornuterus nigropunctula (Pagenstecher, 1892)
• Dilophura caudata (Jordan, 1907)
• Dysodia antennata Whalley, 1968
• Dysodia binoculata Warren, 1901
• Dysodia constellata Warren, 1908
• Dysodia crassa (Walker, 1865)
• Dysodia fenestratella Warren, 1900
• Dysodia flavidula Warren, 1908
• Dysodia intermedia (Walker, 1865)
• Dysodia parvita Whalley, 1971
• Dysodia subsignata Warren, 1908
• Epaena candida Whalley, 1971
• Epaena danista Whalley, 1971
• Epaena trijuncta (Warren, 1898)
• Gnathodes helvella Whalley, 1971
• Hapana minima Whalley, 1971
• Hapana verticalis (Warren, 1899)
• Hypolamprus curviflua (Warren, 1898)
• Hypolamprus gangaba Whalley, 1971
• Kalenga ansorgei (Warren, 1899)
• Kalenga culanota Whalley, 1971
• Kalenga maculanota Whalley, 1971
• Kuja squamigera (Pagenstecher, 1892)
• Lelymena misalis Karsch, 1900
• Marmax smaragdina (Butler, 1888)
• Nakawa fuscibasis (Hampson, 1906)
• Nemea nivosa Whalley, 1971
• Netrocera hemichrysa (Hampson, 1910)
• Netrocera setioides Felder, 1874
• Rhodoneura abacha Whalley, 1971
• Rhodoneura disjuncta (Gaede, 1929)
• Rhodoneura flavicilia Hampson, 1906
• Rhodoneura lacunosa Whalley, 1971
• Rhodoneura roseola Whalley, 1971
• Rhodoneura serraticornis (Warren, 1899)
• Toosa glaucopiformis Walker, 1856

• Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914)
• Acridotarsa melipecta (Meyrick, 1915)
• Amphixystis anchiala (Meyrick, 1909)
• Amphixystis syntricha (Meyrick, 1910)
• Antigambra amphitrocta Meyrick, 1927
• Asymphyla asperata (Meyrick, 1918)
• Ateliotum crymodes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Ceratophaga obnoxia (Meyrick, 1917)
• Ceratophaga tragoptila (Meyrick, 1917)
• Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Ceratophaga xanthastis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Cimitra horridella (Walker, 1863)
• Cimitra spinignatha (Gozmány, 1968)
• Clepticodes horocentra Meyrick, 1927
• Contralissa catagrapta (Meyrick, 1927)
• Cosmeombra doxochares (Meyrick, 1926)
• Criticonoma chelonaea Meyrick, 1910
• Criticonoma flaveata (Gozmány, 1968)
• Crypsithyris fuscicoma Meyrick, 1937
• Crypsithyris spissa Meyrick, 1918
• Dasyses rugosella (Stainton, 1859)
• Dicanica acrocentra Meyrick, 1913
• Drosica abjectella Walker, 1963
• Dryadaula zygodes (Meyrick, 1918)
• Ectabola phaeocephala (Meyrick, 1918)
• Edosa audens (Meyrick, 1921)
• Edosa effulgens (Gozmány, 1965)
• Edosa gypsoptera (Gozmány, 1968)
• Edosa leucastis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Edosa lissochlora (Meyrick, 1921)
• Edosa oratrix (Meyrick, 1913)
• Edosa perinipha (Gozmány, 1968)
• Edosa rhodesica (Gozmány, 1967)
• Edosa sanctifica (Meyrick, 1921)
• Ellochotis caligata (Meyrick, 1913)
• Ellochotis exilis Gozmány & Vári, 1973
• Ellochotis fraudulenta (Meyrick, 1912)
• Ellochotis infausta Meyrick, 1920
• Ellochotis leontopa (Meyrick, 1908)
• Ellochotis opifica (Meyrick, 1908)
• Ellochotis picroxesta (Meyrick, 1926)
• Ellochotis purpurea (Stainton, 1860)
• Ellochotis territa (Meyrick, 1920)
• Ellochotis trophias (Meyrick, 1908)
• Ellochotis verecunda (Meyrick, 1911)
• Erechthias glossophora (Meyrick, 1926)
• Eriozancla trachyphaea (Meyrick, 1921)
• Exonomasis exolescens (Meyrick, 1926)
• Glaucostolella oxyteles (Meyrick, 1926)
• Graphidivalva genitalis (Meyrick, 1913)
• Hapsifera glebata Meyrick, 1908
• Hapsifera meliceris Meyrick, 1908
• Hapsifera ochroptila Meyrick, 1908
• Hapsifera pardalea Meyrick, 1908
• Harmaclona natalensis Bradley, 1953
• Homalopsycha pericharacta Meyrick, 1924
• Homalopsycha rapida (Meyrick, 1909)
• Hyperbola chloristis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Hyperbola phocina (Meyrick, 1908)
• Janseana sceptica (Meyrick, 1910)
• Janseana vibrata (Meyrick, 1913)
• Lindera tessellatella Blanchard, 1852
• Meessia sesquitertia (Meyrick, 1909)
• Miarotagmata penetrata (Meyrick, 1911)
• Minicorona tricarpa (Meyrick, 1913)
• Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859)
• Monopis lamprostola Meyrick, 1918
• Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
• Monopis meyricki Gozmány, 1967
• Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
• Monopis nepheloscopa Meyrick, 1928
• Monopis persimilis Gozmány, 1965
• Monopis rejectella (Walker, 1864)
• Monopis rutilicostella (Stainton, 1860)
• Monopis speculella (Zeller, 1852)
• Monopis transeans Gozmány, 1965
• Morophaga soror Gozmány, 1965
• Myrmecozela isopsamma Meyrick, 1920
• Myrmecozela paurosperma Meyrick, 1926
• Myrmecozela pogonopis Meyrick, 1926
• Nearolyma pyrsocoma (Meyrick, 1937)
• Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nyctocyrmata crotalopis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Ochetoxena phaneraula Meyrick, 1920
• Ocnophilella autocrypta (Meyrick, 1926)
• Oinophila oxystyla (Meyrick, 1912)
• Oinophila v-flava (Haworth, 1828)
• Opogona chlorophanes Meyrick, 1908
• Opogona cyrtomis Meyrick, 1915
• Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853
• Opogona harpalea Meyrick, 1911
• Opogona indiscreta (Meyrick, 1917)
• Opogona iricharis (Meyrick, 1926)
• Opogona ischnoscia Meyrick, 1928
• Opogona omiastis Meyrick, 1937
• Opogona omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893)
• Opogona phaeochalca Meyrick, 1908
• Opogona phaeocrana Meyrick, 1914
• Opogona pyrometalla (Meyrick, 1928)
• Opogona scaphopis Meyrick, 1909
• Opogona trophis Meyrick, 1913
• Organodesma erinacea (Walker, 1863)
• Oxymachaeris euryzancla Meyrick, 1918
• Oxymachaeris zulella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Paraptica concinerata Meyrick, 1917
• Pelecystola melanchares (Meyrick, 1937)
• Pelecystola tephrinitis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Perissomastix adamasta (Meyrick, 1909)
• Perissomastix caryocephala (Meyrick, 1937)
• Perissomastix damnificella (Zeller, 1852)
• Perissomastix dentifera Gozmány & Vári, 1973
• Perissomastix fulvicoma (Meyrick, 1921)
• Perissomastix holopsamma (Meyrick, 1908)
• Perissomastix mascherata Gozmány, 1965
• Perissomastix meretrix (Meyrick, 1908)
• Perissomastix nox Gozmány, 1968
• Perissomastix varii Gozmány, 1967
• Phaeoses pileigera (Meyrick, 1913)
• Phyciodyta neritis Meyrick, 1918
• Pitharcha fasciata (Ghesquière, 1940)
• Pringleophaga crozetensis Enderlein, 1905
• Pringleophaga kerguelensis Enderlein, 1905
• Pringleophaga tetraula (Meyrick, 1926)
• Propachyarthra convallata (Meyrick, 1918)
• Proterospastis antiphracta (Meyrick, 1909)
• Proterospastis barystacta Meyrick, 1937
• Proterospastis craurota (Meyrick, 1920)
• Proterospastis homestia (Meyrick, 1908)
• Proterospastis megaspila (Meyrick, 1913)
• Proterospastis taeniala (Gozmány, 1968)
• Proterospastis trilinguis (Meyrick, 1920)
• Proterospastis zebra (Walsingham, 1891)
• Prothinodes arvicola Meyrick, 1924
• Rhodobates paracosma (Meyrick, 1908)
• Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
• Sphallestasis catharinae (Gozmány, 1968)
• Sphallestasis ectofurca (Gozmány, 1965)
• Sphallestasis euplocamis (Meyrick, 1918)
• Sphallestasis hyalodes (Meyrick, 1913)
• Sphallestasis jansei (Gozmány, 1965)
• Sphallestasis oenopis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Sphallestasis paramecis (Gozmány, 1969)
• Sphallestasis paraxena (Meyrick, 1908)
• Sphallestasis tanystis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Stemagoris axylaea Meyrick, 1911
• Struthisca agitata Meyrick, 1913
• Struthisca areata Meyrick, 1908
• Struthisca hormotris Meyrick, 1908
• Struthisca omichlodes Meyrick, 1908
• Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828)
• Tetracladessa chalcoxesta (Meyrick, 1920)
• Theatrochora cosmophanes Meyrick, 1921
• Tinea abactella Walker, 1863
• Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1857
• Tinea encausta Meyrick, 1911
• Tinea nesiastis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Tinea pentametra Meyrick, 1921
• Tinea spilocoma Meyrick, 1920
• Tinea spinizona Gozmány, 1968
• Tinea squalida Gozmány, 1968
• Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
• Tinissa polystacta (Meyrick, 1918)
• Tiquadra goochii Walsingham, 1881
• Tiquadra lichenea Walsingham, 1897
• Tracheloteina arctocephala (Meyrick, 1909)
• Tracheloteina bilobata Gozmány, 1968
• Tracheloteina farraginella (Zeller, 1852)
• Tracheloteina ordinata (Meyrick, 1921)
• Tracheloteina peloplaca (Meyrick, 1917)
• Tracheloteina percastis (Meyrick, 1908)
• Tracheloteina spinipenis Gozmány, 1968
• Tracheloteina suspiciosa (Meyrick, 1912)
• Transmixta fortuita (Meyrick, 1920)
• Trichophaga cuspidata Gozmány, 1967
• Trichophaga tapetzella (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Wegneria speciosa (Meyrick, 1914)

• Coptotriche africana Puplesis & Diskus, 2003
• Coptotriche basipectinella Puplesis & Diskus, 2003
• Tischeria martinkrugeri Puplesis & Diškus, 2003
• Tischeria sparmanniae Puplesis & Diškus, 2003
• Tischeria zestica Meyrick, 1911

About 240 species - see: List of moths of South Africa (Tortricidae)

• Acropteris illiturata Warren, 1897
• Dirades theclata (Guenée, 1858)
• Epiplema anomala Janse, 1932
• Epiplema asinina Warren, 1905
• Epiplema illineata Warren, 1899
• Epiplema inconspicua Janse, 1932
• Epiplema pulveralis Janse, 1932
• Epiplema reducta Janse, 1932
• Epiplema tristis Janse, 1932
• Heteroplema dependens Warren, 1902
• Hypoplema fumella Janse, 1932
• Leucoplema ansorgei (Warren, 1901)
• Leucoplema dohertyi (Warren, 1904)
• Leucoplema triumbrata (Warren, 1902)
• Monoplema fumigera (Warren, 1905)
• Pseudodirades lactea (Warren, 1897)
• Urapteritra falcifera (Weymer, 1892)

• Cladophantis pristina Meyrick, 1925
• Cladophantis spilozeucta Meyrick, 1927
• Cladophantis xylophracta Meyrick, 1918
• Eporycta chionaula Meyrick, 1920
• Eporycta incanescens Meyrick, 1921
• Eporycta tarbalea Meyrick, 1908
• Eretmocera contermina Meyrick, 1926
• Eretmocera derogatella (Walker, 1864)
• Eretmocera florifera Meyrick, 1909
• Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera lunifera Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera miniata Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera monophaea Meyrick, 1927
• Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera syleuta Meyrick, 1926
• Eupetochira axysta Meyrick, 1927
• Eupetochira xystopala (Meyrick, 1908)
• Exacristis euryopa Meyrick, 1921
• Gemorodes diclera Meyrick, 1925
• Glycynympha roseocostella (Walsingham, 1881)
• Microphidias bacteriopis Meyrick, 1937
• Paralogistis ochrura Meyrick, 1913
• Proterochyta epicoena (Meyrick, 1914)
• Scythris accumulata Meyrick, 1914
• Scythris anthracodelta Meyrick, 1911
• Scythris aquaria Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris brachyplecta Meyrick, 1928
• Scythris calciflua Meyrick, 1921
• Scythris canispersa Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris chloraema (Meyrick, 1887)
• Scythris cometa Meyrick, 1909
• Scythris cretiflua Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris delodelta Meyrick, 1930
• Scythris dimensa Meyrick, 1920
• Scythris eloquens Meyrick, 1921
• Scythris erudita Meyrick, 1917
• Scythris exsoluta Meyrick, 1920
• Scythris faeculenta Meyrick, 1912
• Scythris farrata Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris fluctuosa Meyrick, 1914
• Scythris fonticola Meyrick, 1911
• Scythris glaphyropa Meyrick, 1914
• Scythris justifica Meyrick, 1911
• Scythris lactanea Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris latebrosa Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris melanodora Meyrick, 1912
• Scythris melanopleura Meyrick, 1914
• Scythris meligastra Meyrick, 1920
• Scythris mesoplecta Meyrick, 1921
• Scythris nigrispersa Meyrick, 1918
• Scythris obstans Meyrick, 1928
• Scythris ochrantha Meyrick, 1909
• Scythris pelochyta Meyrick, 1909
• Scythris psamathota Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris rivigera Meyrick, 1911
• Scythris roseola Meyrick, 1912
• Scythris sacharissa Meyrick, 1913
• Scythris stagnosa Meyrick, 1913
• Xylorycta artigena Meyrick, 1914

• Abacistis hexanoma Meyrick, 1913
• Abacistis teligera Meyrick, 1914
• Acrataula catapachna Meyrick, 1921
• Amalthina lacteata Meyrick, 1914
• Argyresthia liparodes Meyrick, 1914
• Argyresthia pentanoma Meyrick, 1913
• Argyresthia stilpnota Meyrick, 1913
• Atteva carteri (Walsingham, 1891)
• Embryonopsis halticella Eaton, 1875
• Exaulistis trichogramma Meyrick, 1911
• Hesperarcha pericentra Meyrick, 1918
• Morotripta fatigata Meyrick, 1917
• Palaetheta innocua Meyrick, 1911
• Palaetheta ischnozona Meyrick, 1909
• Parazelota dryotoma Meyrick, 1913
• Parexaula isomima Meyrick, 1909
• Plexippica verberata Meyrick, 1912
• Prays citri (Millière, 1873)
• Prays liophaea Meyrick, 1927
• Ptiloteina nigricola (Meyrick, 1912)
• Steganosticha remigera Meyrick, 1921
• Teinoptila puncticornis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Trochastica albifrenis Meyrick, 1913
• Xyrosaris secreta Meyrick, 1912
• Yponomeuta africanus Stainton, 1860
• Yponomeuta athyris Meyrick, 1928
• Yponomeuta fumigatus Zeller, 1852
• Yponomeuta sistrophora Meyrick, 1909
• Yponomeuta strigillatus Zeller, 1852
• Yponomeuta subplumbellus Walsingham, 1881
• Zygographa asaphochalca Meyrick, 1917

• Ypsolopha exsularis (Meyrick, 1937)
• Ypsolopha scenites (Meyrick, 1909)

• Anticrates crocophaea Meyrick, 1921
• Anticrates electropis Meyrick, 1921
• Astyloneura glennia (Jordan, 1907)
• Astyloneura meridionalis (Hampson, 1920)
• Astyloneura trefurthi Gaede, 1914
• Coptoproctis languida (Zeller, 1852)
• Janseola titaea (Druce, 1896)
• Malamblia durbanica Jordan, 1907
• Neurosymploca affinis Jordan, 1907
• Neurosymploca caffra (Linnaeus, 1764)
• Neurosymploca concinna (Dalman, 1823)
• Neurosymploca hottentota (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Neurosymploca meterythra Hampson, 1920
• Neurosymploca pagana Kirby, 1892
• Orna contraria (Walker, 1854)
• Orna nebulosa (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Praezygaena agria (Distant, 1892)
• Praezygaena conjuncta (Hampson, 1920)
• Praezygaena lateralis (Jordan, 1907)
• Praezygaena microsticha (Jordan, 1907)
• Praezygaena myodes (Druce, 1899)
• Praezygaena ochroptera (Felder, 1874)
• Saliunca assimilis Jordan, 1907
• Saliunca homochroa (Holland, 1897)
• Saliunca meruana Aurivillius, 1910
• Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)
• Saliuncella marshalli Jordan, 1907
• Tascia finalis (Walker, 1854)
• Tascia rhabdophora Vári, 2002
• Tascia virescens Butler, 1876
• Zutulba namaqua (Boisduval, 1847)
• Zutulba ocellaris (Felder, 1874)

• List of butterflies of South Africa
• Wildlife of South Africa

• De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Search". Afromoths.