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Moths in Hong Kong - 1: Common Moths

This is a simple guide to the moth species most often encountered so far in Hong Kong...... It can be used in conjunction with the Hong Kong Moths Recording Project on i-Naturalist.

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Diamondback Moth, 小菜蛾 1
Plutella xylostella
Homona coffearia 2
Appleleaf-curling moth 3
Adoxophyes privatana
Endotricha repandalis 4
Ceroprepes pulvillella 1
Piesmopoda semilutea, a knot-horn moth, [螟蛾科; 斑螟亞科] 1
Piesmopoda semilutea (Walker, 1863)
Heortia vitessoides 5
Syntonarcha iriastis 6
Camptomastix hisbonalis 7
Rice Leaf-roller 8
Cnaphalocrocis medinalis
Grass Webworm 9
Herpetogramma licarsisalis
Metoeca foedalis 5
Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth 10
Spoladea recurvalis
Talanga sexpunctalis 11
Kunugia divaricata 11
Euthrix isocyma 11
Trilocha varians 7
Apha kantonensis 11
Marumba dyras 12
Fritz's Hummingbird Hawkmoth 13
Macroglossum fritzei
Heteralex unilinea 14
Idaea costiguttata 15
Triangular Wave 11
Lophophleps triangularis
Cross-line Wave Moth 13
Traminda aventiaria
False Tiger Moth 1
Dysphania militaris
Lophophelma calaurops 1
Lophophelma funebrosa 16
Hemithea tritonaria 1
Pelagodes antiquadraria, an Emerald Moth, 樟翠尺蛾 17
Pelagodes antiquadraria (Inoue, 1976)
Fascellina chromataria 7
Fascellina plagiata 12
Plutodes costatus 1
Ourapteryx clara 11
Nothomiza flavicosta 11
Peratophyga crista 1
Biston suppressaria 18
Cleora alienaria 11
Dasyboarmia subpilosa 19
Ectropis bhurmitra 8
Hypomecis transcissa, a looper moth (尺蛾科) 1
Hypomecis transcissa (Walker, 1860)
Hyposidra infixaria 13
Hyposidra talaca 5
Krananda falcata 11
Krananda latimarginaria 1
Krananda oliveomarginata 3
Pseudonadagara semicolor 3
Psilalcis galsworthyi 1
Racotis boarmiaria 13
Ruttellerona pseudocessaria 1
Cocoa Tussock Moth 11
Orgyia postica
Grote's Tussock Moth 5
Calliteara grotei
Euproctis quadrangularis 20
Orvasca subnotata 21
Banyan tussock moth 5
Perina nuda
Barsine striata 22
Brunia antica 23
Manulea fuscodorsalis 1
Danielithosia immaculata 23
Huangilene sp. cf. apoklinousa Volynkin & Černý, 2020 1
Huangilene sp nr apoklinousa
Schistophleps bipuncta 13
Syntomoides imaon, a handmaiden moth, 伊貝鹿蛾 1
Syntomoides imaon (Cramer, 1780)
Creatonotos transiens 24
Nyctemera adversata 13
Asota heliconia 1
Asota caricae 25
Nodaria externalis 5
Pangrapta bicornuta 11
Pangrapta obscurata 11
Pangrapta plumbilineata 23
Pangrapta plumbilineata Wileman & West, 1929
Pangrapta roseinotata 11
Hydrillodes lentalis 11
Bocula marginata 11
Laspeyria ruficeps 1
Saroba pustulifera 26
Lopharthrum comprimens 11
Crithote pallivarga 27
Rema costimacula 13
Ericeia subcinerea 28
Macaldenia palumba 11
Bastilla joviana 11
Oxyodes scrobiculata 13
Ercheia cyllaria 29
Erygia apicalis 11
Sympis rufibasis 11
Ugia purpurea 1
Chorsia albiscripta 11
Melanographia flexilineata 27
Nola pumila 30
Calymera confinis 11
Eastern Streaked Plusia 11
Ctenoplusia albostriata
Green Garden Looper 13
Chrysodeixis eriosoma
Condica conducta 11
Oriental Leafworm 1
Spodoptera litura
Athetis bremusa 1
Athetis cognata 1
Athetis hongkongensis 3
Athetis stellata 1
Mythimna reversa 1

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