Global #Lepidoptera Index update with full revision of Brachodidae.

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Names updated: Brachodidae: 191 Notodontidae: 55 Erebidae: 33 Cossidae: 27 Psychidae: 10 Depressariidae: 7 Tineidae: 6 Limacodidae: 5 Oecophoridae: 5 Noctuidae: 3 Choreutidae: 3 Pyralidae: 3 Crambidae: 2 Zygaenidae: 2 Tischeriidae: 2 Bombycidae: 1 Lacturidae: 1

Major sources:

Kallies 2025, Checklist of Brachodidae

Schintlmeister et al. 2025, A review of the genus Antheua Walker, 1855 with descriptions of 19 new species and one new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Phalerinae), https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.90.11

Japaridze et al. 2025, Burrowed through time: Exploring the enigmatic Cossidae moths of Georgia, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5701.5.1

Fibiger et al. 2001, The Araeopteron genus-group in Yemen, with description of one new genus and 6 new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Jin et al. 2025, Four new and one newly recorded species of Araeopteron Hampson, 1893 (Erebidae, Boletobiinae, Araeopteronini), with the checklist of the genus from China, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1256.159686

Lvovsky 2016, Five new species of flat moths (Lepidoptera, Depressariidae) from Russia and neighboring countries, https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816070137

Kallies 1998, Erster Beitrag zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Brachodidae: Revision von Brachodes fallax mit Beschreibungen neuer zentralasiatischer Arten (Sesioidea), https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41421922

Guillermet 2009, Contribution à l’étude des Hétérocères de l’île La Réunion: trois nouveaux Tineidae et un nouveau Noctuidae (Lepidoptera Heterocera)

Ahmad et al. 2025, Four new species of the genus Striogyia Holloway (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) from India, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.4.8

Beaver et al. 2025, Two genera newly recorded from Australia: Mahasena Moore and Manatha Moore(Lepidoptera: Psychidae: Oiketicinae), each with a new species, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.6

Min et al. 2025, Four new species of Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.2.8

Yakovlev 2011, Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World (Lepidoptera), https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomologische-Nachrichten_66_0001-0129.pdf

Han et al. 2021, Three new species of the genus Araeopteron Hampson, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Boletobiinae) from the Xizang Autonomous Region, China with an updated list of the world species, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.67674

Zagulajev 1999, New and Little Known Moth Species (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae, Brachodidae) in the Fauna of Russia and Neighboring Territories:XII