List of moths of Australia (Cossidae)
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This is a list of the Australian species of the Family
Cossidae
. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of Australia.
The following species belongs to the subfamily Zeuzerinae, but has not been assigned to a genus yet. Given here is the original name given to the species when it was first described:
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Cossidae
Cossidae
Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. Ths family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description...
. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of Australia.
Cossinae
- Cossodes lyonetii White, 1841
- Culama australisCulama australisCulama australis is a moth of the Cossidae family. It is known from South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria and Tasmania....
Walker, 1856 - Culama crepera Turner, 1939
- Culama dasythrix Turner, 1945
- Culama rhytiphorus (Lower, 1893)
- Macrocyttara expressa (T.P. Lucas, 1902)
- Macrocyttara pamphaea Turner, 1945
- Zyganisus caliginosusZyganisus caliginosusThe Australian Goat Moth is a moth of the Cossidae family. It is found in Tasmania.The wingspan is about 50 mm.-External links:**...
(Walker, 1856) - Zyganisus fulvicollis (Gaede, 1933)
Zeuzerinae
- Brephomorpha cineraria (Turner, 1945)
- Catoxophylla cyanauges Turner, 1945
- Duomitus ceramica (Walker, 1865)
- Endoxyla acontucha (Turner, 1903)
- Endoxyla affinis (Rothschild, 1896)
- Endoxyla amphiplecta (Turner, 1932)
- Endoxyla angasii R. Felder, 1874
- Endoxyla arachnophora (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla biarpiti (Tindale, 1953)
- Endoxyla bipustulatus (Walker, 1865)
- Endoxyla cinereus (Tepper, 1890)
- Endoxyla columbina T.P. Lucas, 1898
- Endoxyla coscinopa (Lower, 1901)
- Endoxyla coscinophanes (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla coscinota (Turner, 1903)
- Endoxyla decoratus (Swinhoe, 1892)
- Endoxyla dictyoschema (Turner, 1915)
- Endoxyla didymoplaca (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla duponchelii (Newman, 1856)
- Endoxyla edwardsorum (Tepper, 1891)
- Endoxyla eluta (Rothschild, 1903)
- Endoxyla encalypti Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
- Endoxyla epicycla (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla episticha (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla eremonoma (Turner, 1906)
- Endoxyla eumitra (Turner, 1926)
- Endoxyla euplecta (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla euryphaea (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla grisea (Gaede, 1933)
- Endoxyla houlberti (Oberthür, 1916)
- Endoxyla interlucens T.P. Lucas, 1898
- Endoxyla leucomochlaEndoxyla leucomochlaEndoxyla leucomochla is a species of cossid moth endemic to Australia. The larvae of the moth is commonly known as the "witchetty grub", and was widely used as bushfood by Indigenous Australians....
(Turner, 1915) - Endoxyla lichenea (Rothschild, 1896)
- Endoxyla lituratusEndoxyla lituratusEndoxyla lituratus is a moth of the Cossidae family. It is known from all of Australia.The wingspan is about 70 mm. Adults have a streaky speckled fawn pattern on their wings. The abdomen is banded in brown and grey....
(Donovan, 1805) - Endoxyla mackeri (Oberthür, 1916)
- Endoxyla macleayi Froggatt, 1894
- Endoxyla magnifica (Rothschild, 1896)
- Endoxyla magniguttata (Gaede, 1933)
- Endoxyla methychroa (Turner, 1911)
- Endoxyla minutiscripta T.P. Lucas, 1898
- Endoxyla nephocosma (Turner, 1902)
- Endoxyla neuroxantha (Lower, 1900)
- Endoxyla nubila (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla opposita (Walker, 1865)
- Endoxyla perigypsa (Lower, 1915)
- Endoxyla phaeocosma (Turner, 1911)
- Endoxyla polyplecta (Turner, 1932)
- Endoxyla polyploca (Turner, 1911)
- Endoxyla pulchra (Rothschild, 1896)
- Endoxyla punctifimbria (Walker, 1865)
- Endoxyla reticulosa (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla secta T.P. Lucas, 1898
- Endoxyla sordida (Rothschild, 1896)
- Endoxyla stenoptila (Turner, 1911)
- Endoxyla tanyctena (Turner, 1945)
- Endoxyla tenebrifer (Walker, 1865)
- Endoxyla tigrinus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
- Endoxyla turneri (Roepke, 1955)
- Endoxyla vittata (Walker, 1856)
- Endoxyla zophoplecta (Turner, 1902)
- Endoxyla zophospila (Turner, 1945)
- Skeletophyllon tempestua (T.P. Lucas, 1898)
- Sympycnodes rhaptodes Turner, 1942
- Sympycnodes tripartita (T.P. Lucas, 1892)
- Trismelasmos donovani (Rothschild, 1897)
- Trismelasmos tectorius (Swinhoe, 1901)
- Xyleutes persona (Le Guillou, 1841)
- Zeuzera aeglospila Turner, 1915
- Zeuzera quieta Turner, 1932
The following species belongs to the subfamily Zeuzerinae, but has not been assigned to a genus yet. Given here is the original name given to the species when it was first described:
- Eudoxyla cineraria Illidge, 1898
Unplaced to Subfamily
- Archaeoses magicosema (Meyrick, 1936)
- Archaeoses pentasema (Lower, 1915)
- Archaeoses polygrapha (Lower, 1893)
- Brevicyttara cyclospila (Turner, 1945)
- Charmoses dumigani Turner, 1932
- Eusthenica treicleiota (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
- Idioses littleri Turner, 1927
- Ptilomacra senex Walker, 1855