List of moths of Australia (Cossidae)
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This is a list of the Australian species of the Family
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In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 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 australis
    Culama australis
    Culama 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 caliginosus
    Zyganisus caliginosus
    The 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 leucomochla
    Endoxyla leucomochla
    Endoxyla 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 lituratus
    Endoxyla lituratus
    Endoxyla 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

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