180,000 species of Lepidoptera are described, equivalent to 10% of the total described species of living organisms.[1] This is a list of the diversity of the Lepidoptera showing the estimated number of genera and species described for each superfamily and, where available, family. See Lepidoptera for a note of the schedule of families used.
| Superfamily |
Family |
Genera |
Species
|
| Micropterigiodea |
Micropterigidae |
6 |
182
|
| Agathiphagoidea |
Agathiphagidae |
1 |
2
|
| Heterobathmioidea |
Heterobathmiidae |
1 |
9
|
| Eriocranioidea |
Eriocraniidae |
6 |
25
|
| Acanthopteroctedoidea |
Acanthopteroctetidae |
2 |
5
|
| Lophocoronoidea |
Lophocoronidae |
1 |
6
|
| Neopseustoidea |
Neopseustidae |
3 |
10
|
| Mnesarchaeoidea |
Mnesarchaeidae |
1 |
14
|
| Hepialoidea |
|
68 |
630
|
| |
Anomosetidae |
1 |
1
|
| |
Hepialidae |
61 |
606
|
| |
Neotheoridae |
1 |
1
|
| |
Palaeosetidae |
4 |
7
|
| |
Prototheoridae |
1 |
15
|
| Nepticuloidea |
|
29 |
1,076
|
| |
Nepticulidae |
22 |
862
|
| |
Opostegidae |
7 |
214
|
| Adeloidea |
|
72 |
598
|
| |
Adelidae |
|
|
| |
Cecidosidae |
|
|
| |
Heliozelidae |
|
|
| |
Incurvariidae |
|
|
| |
Prodoxidae |
12 |
80
|
| Palaephatoidea |
Palaephatidae |
7 |
60
|
| Tischerioidea |
Tischeriidae |
5 |
110
|
| Simaethistoidea |
Simaethistidae |
2 |
4
|
| Tineoidea |
|
406 |
4,352
|
| |
Acrolophidae |
|
300
|
| |
Arrhenophanidae |
5 |
26
|
| |
Eriocottidae |
|
|
| |
Lypusidae |
|
|
| |
Psychidae |
|
|
| |
Tineidae |
320 |
3,000
|
| Gracillarioidea |
|
90 |
2,315
|
| |
Bucculatricidae |
|
|
| |
Douglasiidae |
|
|
| |
Gracillariidae |
75 |
2,000
|
| |
Roeslerstammiidae |
|
|
| Yponomeutoidea |
|
83 |
1,578
|
| |
Acrolepiidae |
|
|
| |
Bedelliidae |
|
|
| |
Glyphipterigidae |
|
384
|
| |
Heliodinidae |
|
|
| |
Lyonetiidae |
|
|
| |
Plutellidae |
|
100
|
| |
Yponomeutidae |
|
600
|
| |
Ypsolophidae |
|
|
| Gelechioidea |
|
1,390 |
15,966
|
| |
Agonoxenidae |
|
|
| |
Batrachedridae |
|
|
| |
Blastobasidae |
|
|
| |
Coleophoridae |
43 |
1,418
|
| |
Cosmopterigidae |
106 |
1,628
|
| |
Elachistidae |
165 |
3,270
|
| |
Ethmiidae |
|
|
| |
Gelechiidae |
507 |
4,530
|
| |
Holcopogonidae |
|
|
| |
Lecithoceridae |
|
|
| |
Metachandidae |
|
|
| |
Momphidae |
|
|
| |
Oecophoridae |
|
|
| |
Pterolonchidae |
|
|
| |
Scythrididae |
|
|
| |
Symmocidae |
|
|
| Galacticoidea |
Galacticidae |
3 |
17
|
| Zygaenoidea |
|
98 |
2,700
|
| |
Aididae |
|
|
| |
Anomoeotidae |
|
|
| |
Cyclotornidae |
1 |
5
|
| |
Dalceridae |
|
|
| |
Epipyropidae |
|
|
| |
Heterogynidae |
|
|
| |
Himantopteridae |
|
|
| |
Lacturidae |
|
|
| |
Limacodidae |
|
1,100
|
| |
Megalopygidae |
|
|
| |
Somabrachyidae |
|
|
| |
Zygaenidae |
|
|
| Cossoidea |
|
114 |
676
|
| |
Cossidae |
113 |
670
|
| |
Dudgeoneidae |
1 |
|
| Sesioidea |
|
149 |
1,360
|
| |
Brachodidae |
|
150
|
| |
Castniidae |
|
|
| |
Sesiidae |
149 |
1,362
|
| Choreutoidea |
Choreutidae |
12 |
405
|
| Tortricoidea |
Tortricidae |
755 |
6,338
|
| Urodoidea |
|
4 |
62
|
| |
Urodidae |
3 |
60
|
| |
Ustyurtiidae |
1 |
2[2]
|
| Schreckensteinioidea |
Schreckensteiniidae |
4 |
12
|
| Epermenioidea |
Epermeniidae |
5 |
83
|
| Alucitoidea |
|
15 |
158
|
| |
Alucitidae |
|
130
|
| |
Tineodidae |
|
|
| Pterophoroidea |
Pterophoridae |
73 |
986
|
| Whalleyanoidea |
Whalleyanidae |
1 |
2
|
| Immoidea |
Immidae |
6 |
246
|
| Copromorphoidea |
|
29 |
318
|
| |
Carposinidae |
|
|
| |
Copromorphidae |
|
|
| Hyblaeoidea |
Hyblaeidae |
2 |
18
|
| Pyraloidea[3] |
|
2,092 |
15,576
|
| |
Crambidae |
1,015 |
10,094
|
| |
Pyralidae |
1,077 |
5,900
|
| Thyridoidea |
Thyrididae |
12 |
1,220
|
| Mimallonoidea |
Mimallonidae[4] |
41 |
291
|
| Lasiocampoidea |
|
158 |
1,575
|
| |
Anthelidae |
|
|
| |
Lasiocampidae |
150 |
1,500
|
| Bombycoidea |
|
466 |
3,425
|
| |
Bombycidae |
|
|
| |
Brahmaeidae |
|
|
| |
Carthaeidae |
|
|
| |
Endromidae |
|
|
| |
Eupterotidae |
|
|
| |
Lemoniidae |
|
|
| |
Mirinidae |
|
|
| |
Saturniidae |
165 |
1,480
|
| |
Sphingidae |
200 |
1,200
|
| Cimelioidea |
Cimeliidae |
2 |
6
|
| Calliduloidea |
Callidulidae |
8 |
60
|
| Hedyloidea |
Hedylidae |
1 |
40
|
| Hesperioidea |
Hesperiidae |
550 |
3,500
|
| Papilionoidea |
|
1,400 |
14,000
|
| |
Lycaenidae |
566 |
4,698
|
| |
Nymphalidae |
633 |
5,698
|
| |
Papilionidae |
26 |
605
|
| |
Pieridae |
74 |
1,051
|
| |
Riodinidae |
140 |
1,250
|
| Drepanoidea |
|
129 |
675
|
| |
Drepanidae |
123 |
665
|
| Geometroidea |
|
2,107 |
23,748[5]
|
| |
Epicopeiidae |
9 |
20
|
| |
Geometridae |
2,002 |
23,002
|
| |
Sematuridae |
6 |
40
|
| |
Uraniidae |
90 |
686
|
| Noctuoidea |
|
7,250 |
70,000
|
| |
Arctiidae |
|
11,000
|
| |
Doidae |
|
|
| |
Erebidae |
1,760 |
24,569[5]
|
| |
Euteliidae |
29 |
520[5]
|
| |
Lymantriidae |
360 |
2,500
|
| |
Noctuidae |
1,089 |
11,772[5]
|
| |
Nolidae |
186 |
1,738[5]
|
| |
Notodontidae |
704 |
3,800[5]
|
| |
Oenosandridae |
4 |
8[5]
|
| |
Pantheidae |
|
|