List of Lepidoptera of the Faroe Islands

The Lepidoptera of the Faroe Islands consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the Faroe Islands.

According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 111 Lepidoptera species present in the Faroe Islands.

There are no butterflies on the Faroe Islands.

• Coleophora glaucicolella Wood, 1892

• Coleophora versurella Zeller, 1849

• Catoptria furcatellus (Zetterstedt, 1839)
• Catoptria margaritella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Crambus ericella (Hübner, 1813)
• Crambus pascuella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Loxostege sticticalis (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Scoparia ambigualis (Treitschke, 1829)
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Udea lutealis (Hübner, 1809)

• Depressaria badiella (Hübner, 1796)

• Arctia caja (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Catocala fraxini (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euproctis chrysorrhoea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Scrobipalpa samadensis (Pfaffenzeller, 1870)

• Abraxas grossulariata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chloroclysta miata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chloroclysta siterata (Hufnagel, 1767)
• Dysstroma citrata (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Dysstroma truncata (Hufnagel, 1767)
• Entephria caesiata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Eupithecia nanata (Hübner, 1813)
• Eupithecia pusillata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Eupithecia satyrata (Hübner, 1813)
• Eupithecia venosata (Fabricius, 1787)
• Mesotype didymata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nycterosea obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Operophtera brumata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Perizoma albulata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Perizoma blandiata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Thera cognata (Thunberg, 1792)
• Xanthorhoe decoloraria (Esper, 1806)
• Xanthorhoe designata (Hufnagel, 1767)
• Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Aspilapteryx tringipennella (Zeller, 1839)

• Hepialus humuli (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Agrochola circellaris (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Amphipoea crinanensis (Burrows, 1908)
• Amphipoea lucens (Freyer, 1845)
• Amphipyra tragopoginis (Clerck, 1759)
• Anaplectoides prasina (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Apamea crenata (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Apamea exulis (Lefebvre, 1836)
• Apamea monoglypha (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Apamea remissa (Hübner, 1809)
• Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Autographa pulchrina (Haworth, 1809)
• Celaena haworthii (Curtis, 1829)
• Cerapteryx graminis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Diarsia mendica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Enargia paleacea (Esper, 1788)
• Eupsilia transversa (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Eurois occulta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hada plebeja (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Helotropha leucostigma (Hübner, 1808)
• Hydraecia micacea (Esper, 1789)
• Hypocoena stigmatica (Eversmann, 1855)
• Lycophotia porphyrea (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Mamestra brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Mniotype adusta (Esper, 1790)
• Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
• Noctua orbona (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Parastichtis suspecta (Hübner, 1817)
• Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
• Phlogophora meticulosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Rhizedra lutosa (Hübner, 1803)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Standfussiana lucernea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Trigonophora flammea (Esper, 1785)
• Xanthia icteritia (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Xestia alpicola (Zetterstedt, 1839)
• Xylena vetusta (Hübner, 1813)

• Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849)

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Rhigognostis annulatella (Curtis, 1832)
• Rhigognostis senilella (Zetterstedt, 1839)

• Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
• Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla (Scopoli, 1763)

• Dioryctria abietella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
• Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hyles gallii (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)

• Monopis laevigella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851

• Acleris aspersana (Hübner, 1817)
• Acleris comariana (Lienig & Zeller, 1846)
• Acleris maccana (Treitschke, 1835)
• Acleris notana (Donovan, 1806)
• Acleris sparsana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• Bactra lancealana (Hübner, 1799)
• Eana osseana (Scopoli, 1763)
• Epinotia caprana (Fabricius, 1798)
• Epinotia mercuriana (Frolich, 1828)
• Epinotia solandriana (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lobesia littoralis (Westwood & Humphreys, 1845)
• Phiaris schulziana (Fabricius, 1776)
• Zeiraphera griseana (Hübner, 1799)

• Fauna Europaea