List of moths of South Africa

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.

Family Acrolepiidae

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

Family Adelidae

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

Family Alucitidae

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

Family Anomoeotidae

• Anomoeotes levis <small>Felder, 1888</small>
• Anomoeotes nigrivenosus <small>Butler, 1893</small>
• Dianeura goochii <small>Butler, 1888</small>

Family Arctiidae

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

Family Autostichidae

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

Family Batrachedridae

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

Family Bedelliidae

• Bedellia cathareuta <small>Meyrick, 1911</small>
• Bedellia somnulentella <small>(Zeller, 1847)</small>

Family Bombycidae

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

Family Brachodidae

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

Family Brahmaeidae

• Dactyloceras widenmanni <small>(Karsch, 1895)</small>
• Spiramiopsis comma <small>Hampson, 1901</small>

Family Bucculatricidae

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

Family Carposinidae

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

Family Cecidosidae

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

Family Choreutidae

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

Family Coleophoridae

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

Family Copromorphidae

• Copromorpha aeruginea <small>Meyrick, 1917</small>
• Rhynchoferella syncentra <small>(Meyrick, 1916)</small>

Family Cosmopterigidae

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

Family Cossidae

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

Family Crambidae

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

Family Drepanidae

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

Family Dudgeoneidae

• Dudgeonea leucosticta <small>Hampson, 1900</small>

Family Elachistidae

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

Family Epermeniidae

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

Family Epipyropidae

• Epipyrops fulvipunctata <small>Distant, 1913</small>

Family Eriocottidae

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

Family Eupterotidae

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

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

Family Gelechiidae

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

Family Geometridae

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

Family Glyphipterigidae

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

Family Gracillariidae

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

Family Heliozelidae

• Antispila argyrozona <small>Meyrick, 1918</small>
• Antispila salutans <small>Meyrick, 1921</small>

Family Hepialidae

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

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

Family Himantopteridae

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

Family Hyblaeidae

• Hyblaea fontainei <small>Berio, 1967</small>
• Hyblaea occidentalium <small>Holland, 1894</small>
• Hyblaea puera <small>(Cramer, 1777)</small>

Family Immidae

• Imma arsisceles <small>Meyrick, 1937</small>
• Imma quaestoria <small>Meyrick, 1911</small>
• Moca tormentata <small>(Meyrick, 1921)</small>

Family Incurvariidae

• Protaephagus capensis <small>Scoble, 1980</small>

Family Lacturidae

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

Family Lasiocampidae

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

• Trichopisthia igneotincta <small>(Aurivillius, 1909)</small>
• Trichopisthia monteiroi <small>(Druce, 1887)</small>

Family Lecithoceridae

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

Family Lemoniidae

• Sabalia picarina <small>Walker, 1865</small>
• Sabalia thalia <small>Fawcett, 1915</small>

Family Limacodidae

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

Family Lymantriidae

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

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

Family Lyonetiidae

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

Family Metarbelidae

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

Family Micropterigidae

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

Family Nepticulidae

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

Family Noctuidae

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

Family Nolidae

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

Family Notodontidae

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

Family Oecophoridae

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

Family Opostegidae

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

Family Plutellidae

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

Family Prodoxidae

• Lampronia albifusa <small>Meyrick, 1926</small>
• Sindonophora leucozona <small>Meyrick, 1917</small>

Family Prototheoridae

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

Family Psychidae

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

Family Pterophoridae

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

Family Pyralidae

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

Family Saturniidae

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

Family Sematuridae

• Apoprogones hesperistis <small>Hampson, 1903</small>

Family Sesiidae

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

Family Somabrachyidae

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

Family Sphingidae

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

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

Family Thyrididae

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

Family Tineidae

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

Family Tischeriidae

• Coptotriche africana <small>Puplesis & Diskus, 2003</small>
• Coptotriche basipectinella <small>Puplesis & Diskus, 2003</small>
• Tischeria martinkrugeri <small>Puplesis & DiÅ¡kus, 2003</small>
• Tischeria sparmanniae <small>Puplesis & DiÅ¡kus, 2003</small>
• Tischeria zestica <small>Meyrick, 1911</small>

Family Tortricidae

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

Family Uraniidae

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

Family Xyloryctidae

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

Family Yponomeutidae

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

Family Ypsolophidae

• Ypsolopha exsularis <small>(Meyrick, 1937)</small>
• Ypsolopha scenites <small>(Meyrick, 1909)</small>

Family Zygaenidae

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

See also

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

References

External links