Types of moths australia. Australian moths online does not include images of all described species and deliberately excludes species that have not been described. The moth is variable in colour and may be reddish brown brown or greyish brown. For example in the lacturidae family eustixis sp. In australia there are over 10757 named species of moths compared with only about 400 species of butterflies.
The emperor gum moth is a striking native australian moth. Australian moths represent between 20000 and 30000 different types of moths. Australia has around 22 000 species of moths. Note too that some moths although identified as a separate species have yet to be described.
Australian not moths australian lepidoptera unknown caterpillars updated 31 march 2013 22 november 2018 31 december 2019 since 6 july 2020. Moths are flying insects in the order of lepidoptera which is also the same order to which butterflies belong. Their is a small eye spot on the forewings and large reddish orange eye spot with black border on each. There are over 160000 recorded species of moths across the globe with around 11000 of these being found in the united states and around 2500 being found in the united kingdom.
Around half of these have been scientifically named.