🦋 Family

Castniidae

6 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Castniidae

Synemon plana, the golden sun moth, is a vulnerable day-flying moth endemic to fragmented south-eastern Australian native grasslands.

Synemon parthenoides, the orange-spotted sunmoth, is a Castniidae moth found in Australia that feeds on Lepidosperma carphoides as larvae.

Synemon theresa, the Cryptic Sun-moth, is a day-flying moth now found only in South Australia, presumed extinct in Victoria.

Castnia licus (Telchin licus, the banana stem borer) is a South American pest moth in the Castniidae family.

Castniomera atymnius, the giant butterfly-moth, is the only species in the monotypic moth genus Castniomera, found from Mexico to Venezuela.

Paysandisia archon is a large day-flying moth, native to South America, introduced and spreading as a palm pest in Europe.

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