Carposinidae, the "fruitworm moths" is a family

Family (biology)

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...

 of insects in the lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

n order

Order (biology)

In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...

. These moths are narrower winged than Copromorphidae

Copromorphidae

Copromorphidae, the "tropical fruitworm moths" is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. These moths have broad, rounded forewings, and well-camouflaged scale patterns. Unlike Carposinidae the mouthparts include "labial palps" with the second rather than third segment the longest...

, with less rounded forewing tips. Males often have conspicuous patches of scales on either surface (Dugdale et al., 1999). The mouthparts

Mouthparts

The mouthparts of arthropods have evolved into a number of forms, each adapted to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified, paired appendages, which in ancestral forms would have appeared more like legs than mouthparts. In general, arthropods have mouthparts for...

 are quite diagnostic, usually with prominent, upcurved "labial palps", the third segment long (especially in females), and the second segment covered in large scales. Unlike Copromorphidae, the "M2" and sometimes "M1" vein on the hindwings is absent. The relationship of Carposinidae relative to Copromorphidae needs further investigation. It is considered possible that the family is artificial, being nested within Copromorphidae (Dugdale et al., 1999). The Palearctic

Palearctic

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...

 species have been revised by Diakonoff (1989).

Distribution

Carposinidae occur worldwide except the NW Palearctic

Palearctic

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...

 region (Dugdale et al., 1999)..

Behaviour

Adults are greenish or greyish, with camouflage

Camouflage

Camouflage is a method of concealment that allows an otherwise visible animal, military vehicle, or other object to remain unnoticed, by blending with its environment. Examples include a leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier and a leaf-mimic butterfly...

 patterns, night-flying and attracted to lights. Caterpillars live within leaves, flowers, fruits or buds, or also in galls within plant tissue. The larva

Larva

A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle...

e pupa

Pupa

A pupa is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation. The pupal stage is found only in holometabolous insects, those that undergo a complete metamorphosis, going through four life stages; embryo, larva, pupa and imago...

te with the larval shelter or descend to the ground and make a cocoon covered in detritus (Dugdale et al., 1999)..

Larval hostplants

The caterpillars feed on the gymnosperm

Gymnosperm

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-bearing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and Gnetales. The term "gymnosperm" comes from the Greek word gymnospermos , meaning "naked seeds", after the unenclosed condition of their seeds...

 family Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. It contains 19 genera if Phyllocladus is included and if Manoao and Sundacarpus are recognized....

 as well as the dicotyledon

Dicotyledon

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots, are a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group...

 plant families Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

, Campanulaceae

Campanulaceae

The family Campanulaceae , of the order Asterales, contains about 2000 species in 70 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap...

, Ericaceae

Ericaceae

The Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...

, Fagaceae

Fagaceae

The family Fagaceae, or beech family, comprises about 900 species of both evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, which are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like nuts. Fagaceous leaves are often...

, Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae

The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

, Rosaceae

Rosaceae

Rosaceae are a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species in 95 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Among the largest genera are Alchemilla , Sorbus , Crataegus , Cotoneaster , and Rubus...

, Proteaceae

Proteaceae

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

 and Rutaceae

Rutaceae

Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

 (Dugdale et al., 1999). As the moths can infest fruit some are considered pest species such as the "Peach Fruit Moth"http://www.invasive.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0660053.

Provisional list of species (based on NHM Lepindex)

• Actenoptila eucosma Diakonoff, 1954
• Actenoptila eustales Diakonoff, 1954
• Actenoptila heliotropia Diakonoff, 1954
• Alexotypa caradjai Diakonoff, 1989
• Alexotypa japonica (Walsingham, 1900) (originally in Propedesis)
• Alexotypa vitiata (Meyrick, 1913) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Anomoeosis barbara Diakonoff, 1954
• Anomoeosis carphopasta Diakonoff, 1954
• Anomoeosis conites Diakonoff, 1954
• Anomoeosis phanerostigma Diakonoff, 1954
• Archostola amblystoma Diakonoff, 1989
• Archostola niphauge Diakonoff, 1989
• Archostola ocytoma (Meyrick, 1938) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Archostola tianmushana Hun, 2001
• Archostola tredecim Diakonoff, 1949
• Atoposea maxima (Meyrick, 1912) (originally in Carposina)
• Blipta technica Diakonoff, 1954
• Blipta xylinarcha (Meyrick, 1930) (originally in Bondia)
• Bondia attenuatana Meyrick, 1882
• Bondia caseata Meyrick, 1910
• Bondia crescentella Walsingham, 1882
• Bondia digramma Meyrick, 1910
• Bondia dissolutana Meyrick, 1882
• Bondia fidelis Meyrick, 1913
• Bondia fuscata Davis, 1969
• Bondia maleficana Meyrick, 1882
• Bondia nigella Newman, 1856
• Bondia shastana Davis, 1969
• Bondia spicata Davis, 1969
• Camacostoma mesosapra Diakonoff, 1954
• Campbellana attenuata Salmon and Bradley, 1956 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509093?250.0000
• Campylarchis acuta Diakonoff, 1967
• Carposina achroana
  Carposina achroana
  Carposina achroana is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1883
• Carposina adreptella
  Carposina adreptella
  Carposina adreptella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.-Taxonomy:Meyrick misinterpreted Walker's type material and this species was long named the New Zealand Raspberry Budmoth, while this was in fact a species different from Carposina adreptella. It is now known as...
  
  (Walker, 1864) (originally in Gelechia)http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509090?270.0000
  • =Carposina charaxias Meyrick, 1891
• Carposina altivaga Meyrick, 1925
• Carposina aplegia Turner, 1916
• Carposina apousia Clarke, 1971
• Carposina asbolopis Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina askoldana Diakonoff, 1989
• Carposina atlanticella Rebel, 1894
• Carposina atronotata
  Carposina atronotata
  Carposina atronotata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Maui.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina autologa Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina benigna
  Carposina benigna
  Carposina benigna is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina berberidella
  Carposina berberidella
  Carposina berberidella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is found from Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, former Yugoslavia and the European part of Russia to the Middle East....
  
  Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Carposina bicincta
  Carposina bicincta
  Carposina bicincta is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Molokai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina biloba Davis, 1969
• Carposina brachycentra Meyrick, 1914
• Carposina bullata
  Carposina bullata
  Carposina bullata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is native to Trinidad and Tobago, but has been introduced to Hawaii.The larvae feed on the fruit and flowers of Clidemia hirta.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina candace Meyrick, 1932
• Carposina canescens
  Carposina canescens
  Carposina canescens is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 15-17 mm. The head, palpi and thorax are whitish-grey. The abdomen is whitish-ochreous. The forewings are grey with a faint greenish tinge and a black basal area on the costa, reaching half across...
  
  Philpott, 1930 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509094?290.0000
• Carposina capnarcha (Meyrick, 1938) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Carposina carcinopa Meyrick, 1927
• Carposina cardinata (Meyrick, 1913) (originally in Trepsitypa)
• Carposina ceramophanes Turner, 1947
• Carposina cervinella
  Carposina cervinella
  Carposina cervinella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina chaetolopha Turner, 1926
• Carposina chersodes Meyrick, 1915
• Carposina conobathra Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina contactella
  Carposina contactella
  Carposina contactella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 15–16mm. The head and thorax are white and the abdomen is grey-whitish...
  
  (Walker, 1866) (originally in Tinea)http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509096?300.0000
  • =Carposina amalodes Meyrick, 1911 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509092?310.0000
• Carposina coreana Kim, 1955
• Carposina cornusvora (Yang, 1982) (originally in Asiacarposina)
• Carposina corticella
  Carposina corticella
  Carposina corticella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Hawaiian Islands.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
  • =Carposina latifasciata
    Carposina latifasciata
    Carposina latifasciata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.-External links:*...
    
    Walsingham, 1907
  • =Carposina semitogata
    Carposina semitogata
    Carposina semitogata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.-External links:*...
    
    Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina cretata Davis, 1969
• Carposina crinifera
  Carposina crinifera
  Carposina crinifera is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and Molokai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina cryodana
  Carposina cryodana
  Carposina cryodana is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The head and thorax are white, slightly speckled with grey. The abdomen and legs are ochreous-whitish. The forewings are elongate, narrow, oblong, the costa moderately arched, the apex...
  
  Meyrick, 1885 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509097?320.0000
• Carposina crypsichola Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina dascioptera Turner, 1947
• Carposina diampyx Diakonoff, 1989
• Carposina dispar
  Carposina dispar
  Carposina dispar is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina distincta
  Carposina distincta
  Carposina distincta is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina divaricata
  Carposina divaricata
  Carposina divaricata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina dominicae Davis, 1969
• Carposina ekbatana Amsel, 1978
• Carposina engalactis Meyrick, 1932
• Carposina epomiana
  Carposina epomiana
  Carposina epomiana is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 17 mm. The head and thorax are white, irrorated with light grey. The abdomen and legs are ochreous-whitish. The forewings are elongate, narrow, oblong, the costa moderately arched, the apex...
  
  Meyrick, 1885 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509099?330.0000
  • =Carposina philpotti philpotti (originally in Heterocrossa) Dugdale, 1971 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509108?450.0000
  • =Carposina philpotti hudsoni Dugdale, 1988 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?nil?430.0000
• Carposina eriphylla
  Carposina eriphylla
  Carposina eriphylla is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 26 mm. The head and thorax are whitish-greenish and the shoulders...
  
  Meyrick, 1888 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509100?340.0000
• Carposina eulopha Turner, 1916
• Carposina euphanesBradley, 1956
• Carposina euryleuca Meyrick, 1912
  • =Carposina comonana Kearfott, 1907
• Carposina euschema Bradley, 1965
• Carposina exochana
  Carposina exochana
  Carposina exochana is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 21 mm. The head and thorax are ochreous-white. The antennae, abdomen and legs are ochreous-whitish, the anterior legs suffused with dark fuscous...
  
  Meyrick, 1888 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509101?350.0000
• Carposina exsanguis Meyrick, 1918
• Carposina fernaldana Busck, 1907
• Carposina ferruginea
  Carposina ferruginea
  Carposina ferruginea is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Molokai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina gemmata
  Carposina gemmata
  Carposina gemmata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and Hawaii.Larvae have been recorded on the buds and fruits of Clermontia and Cyanea species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina gigantella Rebel, 1917
• Carposina glauca
  Carposina glauca
  Carposina glauca is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina gonosemana
  Carposina gonosemana
  Carposina gonosemana is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The head and thorax are white. The forewings are narrow, the costa gently arched, somewhat bent before the middle and the hindmargin straight. They are white with scattered grey scales...
  
  Meyrick, 1882 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509102?360.0000
• Carposina gracillima
  Carposina gracillima
  Carposina gracillima is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.The larvae feed in the berries of Styphelia species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina graminicolor
  Carposina graminicolor
  Carposina graminicolor is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu and Hawaii.The larvae feed on Osmanthus sandwicensis and Plectronia odorata.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina graminis
  Carposina graminis
  Carposina graminis is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.The larvae feed on Metrosideros species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina herbarum
  Carposina herbarum
  Carposina herbarum is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu, Lanai and Hawaii.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina hercotis Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina hyperlopha Turner, 1947
• Carposina ignobilis
  Carposina ignobilis
  Carposina ignobilis is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 16 mm. The head, palpi and thorax are grey mixed with brown and the abdomen is ochreous. The forewings are narrow and ochreous-grey densely irrorated with fuscous. The basal patch is...
  
  Philpott, 1930 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509103?370.0000
• Carposina impavida Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina inscripta
  Carposina inscripta
  Carposina inscripta is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.The larvae feed in the berries of Vaccinium reticulatum.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina iophaea
  Carposina iophaea
  Carposina iophaea is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The head, palpi, and thorax are dark fuscous irrorated with whitish. The abdomen is grey, while the two basal segments are whitish-ochreous. The forewings are elongate, narrow, the costa...
  
  Meyrick, 1907 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509104?380.0000
  • =Carposina thalamota Meyrick, 1909 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1517003?390.0000
• Carposina irata Meyrick, 1914
• Carposina irrorata
  Carposina irrorata
  Carposina irrorata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Lanai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina lacerata
  Carposina lacerata
  Carposina lacerata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina latebrosa Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina lembula (Meyrick, 1910) (originally in Meridarchis)
  • =Carposina hylactica (Meyrick, 1938) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Carposina leptoneura Meyrick, 1920
• Carposina literata
  Carposina literata
  Carposina literata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand....
  
  Philpott, 1930 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509105?400.0000
• Carposina loxolopha Turner, 1947
  • =Carposina maculosa
    Carposina maculosa
    Carposina maculosa is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known from the Lyttelton Hills and Otago....
    
    Philpott, 1927 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?nil?410.0000
• Carposina mauii
  Carposina mauii
  Carposina mauii is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Maui.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina mediella Walker, 1866 (originally in Enopa)
• Carposina pterocosmana Meyrick, 1881
• Carposina megalosema Diakonoff, 1949
• Carposina mesophaea Bradley, 1965
• Carposina mesospila Meyrick, 1920
• Carposina mimodes Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina mnia Diakonoff, 1954
• Carposina morbida
  Carposina morbida
  Carposina morbida is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 26 mm. The head, thorax and abdomen are ochreous-whitish, the shoulders with an ochreous spot. The forewings are elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, the costa gently arched,...
  
  Meyrick, 1912 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509107?420.0000
• Carposina nereitis Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina nesolocha Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina neurophorella Meyrick, 1879
• Carposina nigromaculata
  Carposina nigromaculata
  Carposina nigromaculata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina nigronotata
  Carposina nigronotata
  Carposina nigronotata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Maui and Hawaii.The larvae feed in fruit and seeds of Myrsine lessertiana.-External links:**...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina olbiodora Turner, 1947
• Carposina olivaceonitens
  Carposina olivaceonitens
  Carposina olivaceonitens is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii.The larvae feed in flowers, flower buds and fruit of Clermontia and Planchonella species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina orphania Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina paracrinifera Clarke, 1971
• Carposina percicana Matsumura, 1899 (originally in Carpocapsa)
• Carposina perileuca Lower, 1908
• Carposina petraea Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina phycitana Walsingham, 1914
• Carposina pinarodes Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina piperatella
  Carposina piperatella
  Carposina piperatella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina plumbeonitida
  Carposina plumbeonitida
  Carposina plumbeonitida is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai and Hawaii.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina poliophara Bradley, 1965
• Carposina poliosticha Turner, 1947
• Carposina proconsularis Meyrick, 1921
• Carposina punctulata
  Carposina punctulata
  Carposina punctulata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Molokai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina pusilla
  Carposina pusilla
  Carposina pusilla is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.The wingspan is 6.5-7.5 mm.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina pygmaeella
  Carposina pygmaeella
  Carposina pygmaeella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Hawaii.The wingspan is about 6 mm, making it the smallest Hawaiian Carposinidae species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina roesleri Amsel, 1977
• Carposina rosella Kuznetsov, 1975
  • =Carposina rubophaga
    Carposina rubophaga
    The New Zealand Raspberry Budmoth is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is 14-17 mm. Adults are very variable, some individuals being very light in colour, others very dark, darkish-brown, or dark grey. One variety has a pair of dark converging lines...
    
    (Meyrick, 1882) (originally in Heterocrossa) http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509109?470.0000
• Carposina sanctimonea
  Carposina sanctimonea
  Carposina sanctimonea is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 23 mm. The head is whitish, the thorax grey-white, the antennae whitish and the abdomen pale grey. The forewings are elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, the costa gently arched, the...
  
  Clarke, 1926 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509110?490.0000
• Carposina sarcanthes
  Carposina sarcanthes
  Carposina sarcanthes is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 15 mm. The head is white, with a few grey specks and the thorax is grey with a curved white median bar. The abdomen is pale pinkish-ochreous...
  
  Meyrick, 1918 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1517002?500.0000
• Carposina sasakii
  Carposina sasakii
  The Peach Fruit Moth is a species of moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to large parts of Asia, including Japan, Korea and China and Russia...
  
  Matsumura, 1900
  • =Carposina nicholsana Forbes, 1923
  • =Carposina ottawana Kearfott, 1907
  • =Carposina viduana Caradja, 1916
  • =Carposina niponensis Walsingham, 1900 "Peach Fruit Moth" http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/JV/Plate05.shtmlhttp://www.invasive.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0660053
• Carposina saurates
  Carposina saurates
  Carposina saurates is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.-External links:*...
  
  Meyrick, 1913
• Carposina scierotoxa Meyrick, 1924
• Carposina scirrhosella
  Carposina scirrhosella
  The Peach Fruit Moth is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is found from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria to the Middle East....
  
  Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
  • =Carposina orientella Staniou & Nemes, 1968
• Carposina simulator Davis, 1969
• Carposina siturga Meyrick, 1912
• Carposina smaragdias Turner, 1916
• Carposina socors Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina solutella
  Carposina solutella
  Carposina solutella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and Hawaii.The larvae feed on Hedyotis species.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina stationaria Meyrick, 1928
• Carposina subolivacea
  Carposina subolivacea
  Carposina subolivacea is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Lanai.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina subselliata Meyrick, 1921
• Carposina subumbrata
  Carposina subumbrata
  Carposina subumbrata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.The larvae feed on Scaevola chamissoniana. They form galls on the stems of their host plant.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina sysciodes Turner, 1947
• Carposina tanaoptera Turner, 1947
• Carposina taractis Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina telesia Meyrick, 1910
• Carposina tetratoma Diakonoff, 1989
• Carposina thermurga Meyrick, 1929
  • =Carposina ferruginea
    Carposina ferruginea
    Carposina ferruginea is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Molokai.-External links:*...
    
    Meyrick, 1925
• Carposina tincta
  Carposina tincta
  Carposina tincta is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Lanai and Hawaii.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina togata
  Carposina togata
  Carposina togata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Maui.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina trigononotata
  Carposina trigononotata
  Carposina trigononotata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Molokai and Maui.The larvae feed on the terminal buds of Metrosideros species. The larvae bore in the stem of their host plant.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina viridis
  Carposina viridis
  The Green Carposinid Moth is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to Kauai and Oahu.The larvae feed on Cyrtandra cordifolia. The larvae bore in the stem of their host plant.-External links:*...
  
  Walsingham, 1907
• Carposina zymota Meyrick, 1910 (originally in Meridarchis)
• Commatarcha acidodes Diakonoff, 1989
• Commatarcha characterias (Meyrick, 1932) (originally in Bondia)
• Commatarcha autocharacta (Meyrick, 1932) (originally in Bondia)
• Commatarcha chrysanches (Meyrick, 1938) (originally in Bondia)
• Commatarcha citrogramma (Meyrick, 1938) (originally in Delarchis)
• Commatarcha oresbia Diakonoff, 1989
• Commatarcha palaeosema Meyrick, 1935
• Commatarcha quaestrix (Meyrick, 1935) (originally in Bondia)
• Commatarcha vaga Diakonoff, 1989
• Coscinoptycha improbana
  Coscinoptycha improbana
  The Australian Guava Moth is a moth of the Carposinidae family and only member of the Coscinoptycha genus. It is native to Australia, where it is found from Eungella in Queensland down through New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania...
  
  Meyrick, 1881 "Guava Moth"
• Ctenarchis cramboides Dugdale, 1995
• Desiarchis hemisema Diakonoff, 1952
• Epicopistis pleurospila Turner, 1933
• Glaphyrarcha euthrepta Meyrick, 1938 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509098?260.0000
• Heterogymna anterastes Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna cheesmanae Bradley, 1962
• Heterogymna chorospila Meyrick, 1922
• Heterogymna collegialis Meyrick, 1925
• Heterogymna comitialis Meyrick, 1925
• Heterogymna globula Diakonoff, 1973
• Heterogymna gyritis Meyrick, 1910
• Heterogymna heptanoma Meyrick, 1925
• Heterogymna melanococca Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna melanocrypta Diakonoff, 1967
• Heterogymna metarsia Diakonoff, 1989
• Heterogymna ochrogramma Meyrick, 1913 http://www21.ocn.ne.jp/~k-yanagi/2-MicroLEPI..htm
  • =Heterogymna coloba Diakonoff, 1989
  • =Heterogymna seriatopunctata Matsumura, 1931 (originally in Psecadia)
  • =Heterogymna toxotes Diakonoff, 1989
• Heterogymna pardalota Meyrick, 1922
• Heterogymna parthenia Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna polystigma Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna stenygra Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna xenochroma Diakonoff, 1954
• Heterogymna zacentra Meyrick, 1913
• Hystrichomorpha acanthina Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis alta Diakonoff, 1967 [Valid Name]
• Meridarchis anisopa Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis bifracta Diakonoff, 1967
• Meridarchis bryodes Meyrick, 1907
• Meridarchis bryonephela Meyrick, 1938
• Meridarchis caementaria Meyrick, 1911
• Meridarchis capnographa Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis celidophora Bradley, 1962
• Meridarchis chionochalca Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis concinna Meyrick, 1913
• Meridarchis cosmia Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis creagra Diakonoff, 1949
• Meridarchis crotalus Diakonoff, 1989
• Meridarchis cuphoxylon Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis drachmophora Diakonoff, 1950
• Meridarchis ensifera Diakonoff, 1950
• Meridarchis episacta Meyrick, 1906
• Meridarchis erebolimnas Meyrick, 1938
• Meridarchis eremitis Meyrick, 1905 (originally in Tribonica)
• Meridarchis excisa Walsingham, 1900 (originally in Propedesis)
• Meridarchis famulata Meyrick, 1913
• Meridarchis globifera Meyrick, 1938
• Meridarchis globosa Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis goes Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis heptaspila Meyrick, 1930
• Meridarchis isodina Diakonoff, 1989
• Meridarchis jumboa Kawabe, 1980
• Meridarchis longirostris Hampson, 1900 (originally in Pexinola)
• Meridarchis luteus Walsingham, 1897 (originally in Autogriphus)
• Meridarchis melanantha Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis melanopsacas Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis merga Diakonoff, 1989
• Meridarchis mesosticha Bradley, 1965
• Meridarchis monopa Diakonoff, 1948
• Meridarchis niphoptila Meyrick, 1930
• Meridarchis octobola Meyrick, 1925
• Meridarchis oculosa Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis oxydelta Diakonoff, 1967
• Meridarchis picroscopa Meyrick, 1930
• Meridarchis pentadrachma Diakonoff, 1954
• Meridarchis phaeodelta Meyrick, 1906
• Meridarchis pseudomantis Meyrick, 1920
• Meridarchis pusulosa Diakonoff, 1949
• Meridarchis reprobata Fletcher & Surat, 1920
• "Meridarchis reprobata" Meyrick, 1920
• Meridarchis scyrodes Meyrick, 1916
• Meridarchis scythophyes Diakonoff, 1967
• Meridarchis theriosema Meyrick, 1928
• Meridarchis trapeziella Zeller, 1867
• Meridarchis tristriga Diakonoff, 1952
• Meridarchis unitacta Diakonoff, 1970
• Meridarchis xerostola Diakonoff, 1989
• Mesodica aggerata Meyrick, 1910
• Mesodica dryas (Diakonoff, 1950) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Mesodica infuscata Diakonoff, 1949
• Metacosmesis aelinopa Diakonoff, 1982
• Metacosmesis barbaroglypha Diakonoff, 1949
• Metacosmesis illodis Diakonoff, 1967
• Metacosmesis laxeuta Meyrick, 1906
• Metrogenes deltocycla Meyrick, 1926
• Nosphidia paradoxa Diakonoff, 1982
• Paramorpha aquilana Meyrick, 1881
• Paramorpha aulata Meyrick, 1913
• Paramorpha cylindrica Meyrick, 1922
• Paramorpha eburneola Turner, 1926
• Paramorpha glandulata Meyrick, 1922
• Paramorpha hapalopis Meyrick, 1910
• Paramorpha marginata
  Paramorpha marginata
  Paramorpha marginata is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 11 mm. The head, palpi, antennae and thorax are white. The abdomen is ochreous white and the legs are fuscous mixed with whitish. Forewings with costa moderately arched, apex rather...
  
  (Philpott, 1931) (originally in Carposina) http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?1509106?510.0000
  • =Paramorpha heptacentra Meyrick, 1931 http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/lepidoptera/cgi-bin/bug.pl?nil?520.0000
• Paramorpha injusta Meyrick, 1913
• Paramorpha perileuca Lower, 1908
• Paramorpha rhachias Meyrick, 1910
• Paramorpha semotheta Meyrick, 1910
• Paramorpha tenuistria Turner, 1947
• Peragrarchis emmilta Diakonoff, 1989
• Peragrarchis minima Bradley, 1962
• Peragrarchis pelograpta (Meyrick, 1929) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Peragrarchis rodea (Diakonoff, 1950) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Peragrarchis syncolleta (Meyrick, 1928) (originally in Meridarchis)
• Peritrichocera bipectinata Diakonoff, 1961
• Picrorrhyncha atribasis Diakonoff, 1950
• Picrorrhyncha pista Diakonoff, 1973
• Picrorrhyncha scaphula Meyrick, 1922
• Scopalostoma melanoparea Diakonoff, 1957
• Sosineura mimica
  Sosineura mimica
  Sosineura mimica is a species of moth of the Carposinidae family. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania....
  
  (Lower, 1893) (Originally in Heterocrossa)
• Spartoneura xerocrastis Diakonoff, 1954
• Xyloides lamproxylon Diakonoff, 1954

External links

• Tree of Life
• NHM Lepindex
• Fauna Europaea Experts
• Lepidoptera of Tasmania
• Chinese Carposinidae
• Heterogyma ochrogamma
• Ctenarchis pdf