List of moths of South Africa (Gelechiidae)

This is a list of moths of the family Gelechiidae that are found in South Africa. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of South Africa.

Acraeologa delotypa Janse, 1963 Acraeologa xanthobasalis Janse, 1963 Acraeologa xerochroa Meyrick, 1921 Acribologa cymotrocha (Meyrick, 1913) Acutitornus kalahariensis Janse, 1957 Acutitornus leucostola Janse, 1957 Acutitornus liebbergi Janse, 1963 Acutitornus munda Janse, 1951 Acutitornus munroi Janse, 1957 Aeolotrocha delograpta Janse, 1960 Aeolotrocha generosa Meyrick, 1921 Aeolotrocha paroptila Janse, 1960 Aeolotrocha phaeoptera Janse, 1960 Allophlebia hemizancla Janse, 1960 Amblyphylla lophozancla Janse, 1960 Anacampsis cosmia Meyrick, 1921 Anacampsis embrocha Meyrick, 1914 Anapatetris crystallista (Meyrick, 1911) Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891 Anarsia albibasella Janse, 1963 Anarsia amalleuta Meyrick, 1913 Anarsia antisaris (Meyrick, 1913) Anarsia callicosma Janse, 1960 Anarsia carbonaria Meyrick, 1913 Anarsia gravata Meyrick, 1911 Anarsia inculta Walsingham, 1891 Anarsia mitescens Meyrick, 1913 Anarsia nigrimacula Janse, 1949 Anarsia nimbosa Meyrick, 1913 Anarsia permissa Meyrick, 1926 Anarsia pustulata Janse, 1949 Anarsia sciograpta (Meyrick, 1921) Anarsia sciotona Meyrick, 1927 Anarsia spicata Meyrick, 1918 Anarsia subfulvescens Meyrick, 1918 Anarsia vectaria Meyrick, 1918 Anastomopteryx angulata Janse, 1951 Angustiphylla hylotropa Janse, 1960 Anomologa demens Meyrick, 1926 Anomologa dispulsa Meyrick, 1926 Aproaerema africanella (Janse, 1951) Araeophalla barbertonensis Janse, 1960 Araeovalva albiflora (Meyrick, 1920) Araeovalva minor Janse, 1960 Argophara epaxia Janse, 1963 Aristotelia balanocentra Meyrick, 1914 Aristotelia chlorographa Meyrick, 1914 Aristotelia comis Meyrick, 1913 Aristotelia dryonota Meyrick, 1926 Aristotelia galeotis Meyrick, 1908 Aristotelia ptilastis Meyrick, 1909 Aristotelia swierstrai Janse, 1950 Aristotelia trematias Meyrick, 1913 Asapharcha strigifera Meyrick, 1920 Aspades armatovalva Janse, 1963 Aspades hutchinsonella (Walsingham, 1891) Athrips cretulata Meyrick, 1927 Athrips helicaula (Meyrick, 1912) Athrips mappigera Meyrick, 1914 Athrips neograpta Meyrick, 1914 Athrips phoenaula (Meyrick, 1913) Athrips ptychophora (Meyrick, 1914) Athrips syncopaula (Meyrick, 1937) Athrips zetterstedtiella (Zeller, 1852) Autodectis atelarga Meyrick, 1937 Belovalva nigripuncta Janse, 1963 Bilobata argosticha (Janse, 1954) Bilobata subsecivella (Zeller, 1852) Bilobata torninotella (Janse, 1954) Blastovalva anisochroa Janse, 1960 Blastovalva haplotypa Janse, 1960 Blastovalva paltobola (Meyrick, 1921) Brachmia apricata Meyrick, 1913 Brachmia convolvuli Walsingham, 1907 Brachmia fiscinata Meyrick, 1918 Brachmia fuscogramma Janse, 1960 Brachmia graphicodes Meyrick, 1914 Brachmia malacogramma Meyrick, 1909 Brachmia musicopa Meyrick, 1908 Brachmia pantheropa Meyrick, 1913 Brachmia septella (Zeller, 1852) Brachmia spilopis Meyrick, 1927 Brachmia velitaris Meyrick, 1913 Brachmia verberata Meyrick, 1911 Bucolarcha geodes Meyrick, 1929 Calliphylla retusa Janse, 1963 Capnosema celidota Janse, 1958 Catelaphris torrefacta (Meyrick, 1914) Cerofrontia griseotincta Janse, 1951 Chrysoesthia isocharis (Vári, 1963) Chrysoesthia mimetis (Vári, 1963) Chrysoesthia stipelloides (Janse, 1950) Clepsimorpha inconspicua Janse, 1960 Cymatoplicella aestuosa (Meyrick, 1913) Cymatoplicella aplectodes (Janse, 1960) Dactylethrella chionitis (Meyrick, 1910) Dactylethrella siccifolii (Walsingham, 1881) Dactylethrella tetrametra (Meyrick, 1913) Daemonarcha amblopis Janse, 1954 Daemonarcha atactodes Janse, 1954 Daemonarcha cyprophanes Meyrick, 1918 Daemonarcha hamata Janse, 1954 Daemonarcha heterobela Janse, 1954 Daemonarcha oncera Janse, 1954 Deltolophos haplopa Janse, 1960 Deltophora diversella Sattler, 1979 Deltophora typica Sattler, 1979 Dichomeris antizyga Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris argentaria Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris basistriata (Walsingham, 1897) Dichomeris cotifera Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris exsecta Meyrick, 1927 Dichomeris fruitans Meyrick, 1920 Dichomeris impigra Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris meridionella (Walsingham, 1891) Dichomeris metrodes Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris oleata Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris stasimopa Meyrick, 1937 Dichomeris stromatias Meyrick, 1918 Dichomeris ventosa Meyrick, 1913 Dichomeris xanthodeta Meyrick, 1913 Dicranucha albicincta (Meyrick, 1921) Dicranucha dicksoni Janse, 1963 Dicranucha homochroma Janse, 1954 Dicranucha ochrostoma (Meyrick, 1913) Dicranucha serialis (Meyrick, 1908) Dicranucha sterictis (Meyrick, 1908) Dicranucha strepsigramma (Meyrick, 1937) Encentrotis catagrapha Meyrick, 1921 Encolpotis argyrophanes Meyrick, 1937 Encolpotis xanthoria Meyrick, 1909 Ephysteris aellographa Janse, 1960 Ephysteris fuscocrossa Janse, 1960 Ephysteris infirma (Meyrick, 1912) Ephysteris neosirota (Janse, 1950) Ephysteris ornata (Janse, 1950) Ephysteris parasynecta Janse, 1963 Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859) Ephysteris sirota (Meyrick, 1908) Eporgastis conclusa (Meyrick, 1918) Ereboscaeas amorpha Meyrick, 1937 Erikssonella permagna (Meyrick, 1920) Euryctista hobohmi Janse, 1963 Filisignella cirrhaea (Meyrick, 1914) Flexiptera revoluta (Meyrick, 1918) Frumenta nephelomicta Meyrick, 1930 Furcaphora caelata (Meyrick, 1913) Gambrostola imposita Meyrick, 1926 Gelechia abjunctella Walker, 1864 Gelechia aglossella Walker, 1866 Gelechia anagramma Meyrick, 1921 Gelechia arotrias Meyrick, 1908 Gelechia chionomima Meyrick, 1929 Gelechia epiphloea Meyrick, 1913 Gelechia fecunda Meyrick, 1918 Gelechia flavipalpella Walsingham, 1881 Gelechia liberata Meyrick, 1910 Gelechia omphalopis Meyrick, 1926 Gelechia rescissella Zeller, 1852 Gelechia resecta Meyrick, 1913 Gelechia sematica (Meyrick, 1913) Gelechia tetraleuca Meyrick, 1918 Gnosimacha catericta Meyrick, 1927 Grandipalpa robusta Janse, 1951 Haplovalva ametris (Meyrick, 1921) Hedma maculata Povolný, 1978 Hedma microcasis (Meyrick, 1929) Hedma rhamnifoliae (Amsel & Hering, 1931) Holaxyra acuta (Meyrick, 1927) Holaxyra ithyaula (Meyrick, 1926) Holaxyra picrophanes (Meyrick, 1913) Hypatima albogrisea (Walsingham, 1881) Hypatima austerodes (Meyrick, 1918) Hypatima binummulata (Meyrick, 1929) Hypatima dissidens (Meyrick, 1913) Hypatima formidolosa (Meyrick, 1916) Hypatima improba (Meyrick, 1913) Hypatima lecticata (Meyrick, 1926) Hypatima loxosaris (Meyrick, 1918) Hypatima mancipata (Meyrick, 1913) Hypatima melanecta (Meyrick, 1914) Hypatima nigrogrisea Janse, 1949 Hypatima probolaea (Meyrick, 1913) Hypatima solutrix (Meyrick, 1911) Hypatima stasimodes (Meyrick, 1931) Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909) Hypatima triannulata (Meyrick, 1911) Iochares festa Meyrick, 1921 Iochares straminis (Walsingham, 1881) Ischnocraspedus peracuta (Meyrick, 1920) Ischnophylla similicolor Janse, 1963 Lacharissa tanyzancla Meyrick, 1937 Lachnostola amphizeucta Meyrick, 1918 Lacistodes brunneostola Janse, 1960 Lacistodes tauropis Meyrick, 1921 Lanceopenna pentastigma Janse, 1960 Lanceopenna prominula (Meyrick, 1913) Lanceopenna pseudogaleotis Janse, 1950 Lanceoptera panochra Janse, 1960 Lasiarchis hirsuta Janse, 1958 Lasiarchis pycnodes (Meyrick, 1909) Leucophylla nigribasis Janse, 1960 Leuronoma chlorotoma Meyrick, 1918 Leuronoma eodryas (Meyrick, 1918) Leuronoma magna Janse, 1958 Leuronoma nigridorsis Meyrick, 1921 Leuronoma textifera (Meyrick, 1913) Leuronoma veterascens Meyrick, 1918 Leuronoma zymotis (Meyrick, 1909) Leuropalpa reducta (Janse, 1951) Machlotricha griseostola Janse, 1960 Machlotricha latipalpis (Walsingham, 1881) Macrocalcara sporima Janse, 1960 Megacraspedus serica Meyrick, 1909 Melitoxoides cophias (Meyrick, 1913) Melitoxoides glauca Janse, 1960 Melitoxoides leucodoxa (Meyrick, 1920) Melitoxoides panaula (Meyrick, 1909) Metatactis griseobrunnea Janse, 1949 Metzneria acrena (Meyrick, 1908) Metzneria heptacentra Meyrick, 1911 Microcraspedus brachypogon (Meyrick, 1937) Microcraspedus eremaula (Janse, 1960) Microcraspedus photinopa (Meyrick, 1925) Microcraspedus synecta (Meyrick, 1909) Mometa zemiodes Durrant, 1914 Musurga turgida (Meyrick, 1918) Neopachnistis amblystola Janse, 1954 Neopachnistis parochroma Janse, 1954 Neopachnistis pseudomorpha Janse, 1954 Neopachnistis tephrodes (Meyrick, 1909) Neopatetris tenuis Janse, 1960 Neotelphusa anisogrisea Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa bimaculata Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa castrigera (Meyrick, 1913) Neotelphusa cirrhomacula Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa craterota (Meyrick, 1913) Neotelphusa ferrugilinea Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa flavinotatta Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa fuscisparsa Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa limenaea (Meyrick, 1920) Neotelphusa obliquifascia Janse, 1960 Neotelphusa ochrophthalma (Meyrick, 1927) Neotelphusa pallidistola Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa phaeomacula Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa similella Janse, 1958 Neotelphusa tapinota Janse, 1958 Ochrodia pentamacula (Janse, 1958) Ochrodia subdiminutella (Stainton, 1867) Octonodula inumbrata (Meyrick, 1914) Onebala brunneotincta Janse, 1954 Onebala obsoleta Janse, 1954 Onebala probolaspis Meyrick, 1929 Onebala semiluna Janse, 1954 Onebala zulu (Walsingham, 1881) Ornativalva kalahariensis (Janse, 1960) Panicotricha prographa Meyrick, 1913 Parabola butyraula (Meyrick, 1913) Parabrachmia anomala Janse, 1960 Parabrachmia trisignella Janse, 1960 Parallactis panchlora (Meyrick, 1911) Parallactis plaesiodes (Meyrick, 1920) Parallactis zorophanes Janse, 1954 Parapsectris carinata (Meyrick, 1911) Parapsectris exstincta (Meyrick, 1911) Parapsectris fastidiosa Meyrick, 1911 Parapsectris ferax (Meyrick, 1913) Parapsectris feraxoides Bidzilya, 2010 Parapsectris ferulata Meyrick, 1918 Parapsectris lacunosa (Meyrick, 1918) Parapsectris ochrocosma (Meyrick, 1911) Parapsectris opaula (Meyrick, 1911) Parapsectris tholaea Meyrick, 1911 Paraselotis pelochroa Janse, 1960 Paratelphusa griseoptera Janse, 1958 Parathectis farinata (Meyrick, 1913) Parathectis sordidula (Meyrick, 1913) Paristhmia barathrodes Meyrick, 1909 Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844) Phanerophalla knysnaensis Janse, 1960 Photodotis abachausi Janse, 1958 Photodotis pellochroa Janse, 1960 Photodotis prochalina Meyrick, 1911 Photodotis spilodoma Meyrick, 1918 Phthoracma blanda Meyrick, 1921 Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873) Picroptera aulotoma (Meyrick, 1917) Picroptera orthacma (Meyrick, 1926) Pithanurga chariphila Meyrick, 1921 Platyphalla ochrinotata Janse, 1951 Polyhymno blastophora Janse, 1950 Polyhymno centrophora (Meyrick, 1921) Polyhymno chionarcha Meyrick, 1913 Polyhymno deuteraula Meyrick, 1914 Polyhymno erratica Janse, 1950 Polyhymno eurydoxa Meyrick, 1909 Polyhymno furcatella Janse, 1950 Polyhymno hieracitis Meyrick, 1913 Polyhymno hostilis Meyrick, 1918 Polyhymno inermis Meyrick, 1913 Polyhymno intorta Meyrick, 1918 Polyhymno intortoides Janse, 1950 Polyhymno lignicolor Janse, 1950 Polyhymno multifida Meyrick, 1917 Polyhymno oxystola Meyrick, 1913 Polyhymno palinorsa Meyrick, 1909 Polyhymno paracma Meyrick, 1909 Polyhymno pausimacha Meyrick, 1909 Polyhymno pernitida Janse, 1950 Polyhymno pleuracma Meyrick, 1926 Polyhymno tetragrapha Meyrick, 1913 Polyhymno thinoclasta Meyrick, 1926 Polyhymno tropaea Meyrick, 1908 Polyhymno walsinghami Janse, 1950 Proselotis strictula (Meyrick, 1937) Pseudotelphusa albisignata Janse, 1960 Pseudotelphusa albopasta Janse, 1960 Pseudotelphusa confixa (Meyrick, 1918) Pseudotelphusa cycota (Meyrick, 1911) Pseudotelphusa devia (Meyrick, 1913) Pseudotelphusa griseotincta Janse, 1958 Pseudotelphusa oxychasta (Meyrick, 1929) Pseudotelphusa paracycota Janse, 1958 Pseudotelphusa probata (Meyrick, 1909) Pseudotelphusa tornimacula Janse, 1958 Pseudotelphusa trinephela (Meyrick, 1929) Ptychovalva obruta (Meyrick, 1921) Ptychovalva trigella (Zeller, 1852) Ptychovalva trimaculata Janse, 1960 Pycnodytis erebaula Meyrick, 1918 Pyncostola abnormalis Janse, 1950 Pyncostola albicolorella Janse, 1950 Pyncostola alloea Janse, 1950 Pyncostola auturga Meyrick, 1921 Pyncostola celeris Meyrick, 1920