List of Lepidoptera of Nauru

The Lepidoptera of Nauru consists of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Nauru, an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of four butterfly species present in Nauru, none of which is endemic. The number of moth species is unknown.

Hesperiidae

 * Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

Lycaenidae

 * Petrelaea tombugensis (Rober, 1886)

Nymphalidae

 * Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Choreutidae

 * Choreutis orthogona (Meyrick, 1886)

Crambidae

 * Diaphania indica (Sanders, 1851)
 * Glyphodes multilinealis Kenrick, 1907
 * Parotis suralis (Lederer, 1863)
 * Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius 1775)

Elachistidae

 * Ethmia nigroapicella (Saalmüller 1880)

Erebidae

 * Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius, 1781)
 * Eublemma anachoresis (Wallgreen, 1863)
 * Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Mocis trifasciata (Stephens 1829)

Gelechiidae

 * Trissodoris honorariella (Walsingham, 1907)

Pterophoridae

 * Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller 1873)
 * Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius 1794)
 * Sphenarches anisodactylus  (Walker 1864)

Pyralidae

 * Etiella zinckenella  (Treitschke 1832)

Noctuidae

 * ?Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
 * Chrysodeixis eriosoma  (Doubleday 1843)
 * Spodoptera mauritia  (Boisduval 1833)
 * Stictoptera cucullioides  Guenée 1852

Nolidae

 * Westermannia superba (Hübner, 1823)

Sphingidae

 * Gnathothlibus erotus (Cramer, 1777)

Tineidae

 * Erechthias penicillata (Swezey, 1909)

Tortricidae

 * Cryptophlebia ombrodelta (Lower, 1898)