title: List of Lepidoptera of Nauru
text: # 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.
  
  ## Butterflies
  
  ### Hesperiidae
  
  * Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)
  
  ### Lycaenidae
  
  * Petrelaea tombugensis (Rober, 1886)
  
  ### Nymphalidae
  
  * Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  * Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)
  
  ## Moths
  
  ### 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)
  