MOTH species of COSTA RICA

Costa Rica boasts of near 1.500 species of butterflies and 12.000 moths in the Lepidoptera order. The best time to observe butterflies in Costa Rica is generally from June till December, but please note, September and October can be extremely rainy. But basically during the whole year it is easy to observe hundreds of species of butterflies and moths during the whole year. Around 10% of the total butterfly species live in Costa Rica.

There are many amazing examples of Müllerian or Batesian mimicry amongst the various moths species which you can find in Costas Rica which you can misidentify or overlook believing that it is a wasp, leaf or butterfly for example.

Moths species

• Bombycoidea - Apatelodidae 35 species
• Bombycoidea - Bombycidae 22 species
• Bombycoidea - Eupterotidae 2 species
• Bombycoidea - Lasiocampidae 92 species
• Bombycoidea - Saturniidae 174 species
• Bombycoidea - Sphingidae 149 species
• Drepanoidea - Doidae 2 species
• Drepanoidea - Drepanidae 1 specie
• Geometroidea - Geometridae 1049 species
• Geometroidea - Sematuridae 9 species
• Geometroidea - Uraniidae 28 species
• Hedyloidea - Hedylidae 16 species
• Noctuoidea - Arctiidae 709 species
• Noctuoidea - Erebidae 853 species
• Noctuoidea - Lymantriidae 13 species
• Noctuoidea - Noctuidae 477 species
• Noctuoidea - Nolidae 73 species
• Noctuoidea - Notodontidae 504 species

Moths of Costa Rica: 4208 species

• Cossoidea - Cossidae 33 species
• Cossoidea - Dudgeoneidae 1 species
• Epermenioidea - Epermeniidae 1 species
• Gelechioidea - Autostichidae 1 species
• Gelechioidea - Depressariidae 133 species
• Gelechioidea - Gelechiidae 13 species
• Gelechioidea - Oecophoridae 3 species
• Hepialoidea - Hepialidae 12 species
• Incurvarioidea - Adelidae 3 species
• Mimallonoidea - Mimallonidae 41 species
• Nepticuloidea - Nepticulidae 6 species
• Nepticuloidea - Opostegidae 25 species
• Pterophoroidea - Pterophoridae 2 species
• Pyraloidea - Crambidae 494 species
• Pyraloidea - Hyblaeidae 1 species
• Pyraloidea - Pyralidae 130 species
• Pyraloidea - Thyrididae 45 species
• Sesioidea - Brachodidae 1 species
• Sesioidea - Castniidae 10 species
• Sesioidea - Choreutidae 18 species
• Sesioidea - Sesiidae 1 species
• Sesioidea - Urodidae 10 species
• Tineoidea - Arrhenophanidae 9 species
• Tineoidea - Gracillariidae 11 species
• Tineoidea - Psychidae 2 species
• Tineoidea - Tineidae 10 species
• Tortricoidea - Tortricidae 134 species
• Yponomeutoidea - Attevidae 3 species
• Yponomeutoidea - Glyphipterigidae 2 species
• Yponomeutoidea - Yponomeutidae 2 species
• Zygaenoidea - Aididae 1 species
• Zygaenoidea - Dalceridae 18 species
• Zygaenoidea - Lacturidae 4 species
• Zygaenoidea - Limacodidae 84 species
• Zygaenoidea - Megalopygidae 31 species
• Zygaenoidea - Zygaenidae 7 species

Microlepidoptera of Costa Rica: 1302 species