58 Moths described in 1892

Lyces solaris is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by William Schaus in 1892. It is known from Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Acraga coa is a moth of the family Dalceridae. It is found in southern Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical premontane wet, tropical premontane rain, tropical lower montane moist, subtropical wet, subtropical moist, subtropical dry and warm temperate wet forests.

Agathia codina is a species of moth in the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the north-eastern parts of the Himalaya, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Agrotis characteristica is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Ukraine, the southern Urals, western Siberia, the Altai mountains, the Sayan Mountains, Transbaikal, Mongolia, northern China and the Korean Peninsula.

Amelora arotraea is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania.

Antheraea godmani is a moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1892. It is found from Mexico to Colombia.

Antictenia punctunculus is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1892. It is found in Australia.

Antinephele achlora is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by William Jacob Holland in 1892, and is found from forests from Sierra Leone to Uganda and western Kenya.

Ardonis filicata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas and Borneo and Sulawesi.

Autographa buraetica is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in north and north-eastern Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Russia, Mongolia, Sibiria, the Ussuri region, Korea and Japan. It has recently been recorded from Austria. In North America, it is found in Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

Barsine lucibilis is a moth of the family Erebidae, subfamily Arctiinae. The species was first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is endemic to Borneo. It is found in lowland forests and also occurs in disturbed habitats. It is found at elevations up to 1,000 meters.

Calliteara farenoides is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Queensland.

Catocala aestimabilis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Xinjiang, China.

Catocala remissa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1892. It is found in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

Choristoneura simonyi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on the Canary Islands.

Clupeosoma cinerea is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Warren in 1892. It is found in Japan, Borneo, China, Russia and Taiwan.

Coleophora glaucicolella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae, found in Asia, Europe and North America. It occurs in forest-steppe biotopes, wet meadows and meadow-steppe.

Cotachena pubescens is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Warren in 1892. It is found in Taiwan, China and Indonesia.

Cucullia dorsalis is a species of owlet moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.

Cyclophora intermixtaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in Taiwan, the Himalayas, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Diasemiodes nigralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Charles H. Fernald in 1892. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida to Texas, with strays north to at least Michigan and Maryland.

Dichagyris amoena is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Turkey and Israel.

Dichagyris erubescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Turkey and adjacent areas, more specifically the Transcaucasia, Iraq, western Iran, Israel, Syria, Jordan and the Sinai in Egypt.

Dichagyris singularis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Turkmenistan to south-eastern Turkey, parts of the Middle East, Jordan, Israel, Iran and Afghanistan.

Dolbina exacta, the exact grizzled hawkmoth, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from the southern part of the Russian Far East, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, south into China as far as Sichuan, Hubei and Zhejiang. The habitat consists of open parklands and forest edges.

Elymiotis tlotzin is a moth in the family Notodontidae first described by William Schaus in 1892. It is found in Costa Rica, where it has been collected in the dry forest ecosystem of Peninsula de Nicoya, and in the dry forests of Sector Santa Rosa and Sector Pailas of at elevations between 0 and 800 meters.

Endotricha rogenhoferi is a species of snout moth in the genus Endotricha. It was described by Hans Rebel in 1892, and is known from the Canary Islands.

Eois numida is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Herbert Druce in 1892. It is found in South America, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Epinotia lindana, the diamondback epinotia moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in North America, records include British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, North Carolina, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Euproctis baliolalis, the browntail gum moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the south-east quarter of Australia.

Exaeretia conciliatella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Greece and on Sicily and the Canary Islands.

Fraus pteromela is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in most of the southern half of Australia.

Hagnagora croceitincta is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Paul Dognin in 1892. It is found from central Colombia to south-eastern Peru.

Hippotion rosetta, or Swinhoe's striated hawkmoth, is a sphingid moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892.

Hydraecia medialis is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in western North America. East of the Cascades, it occurs as far north as the Cariboo region in south-central British Columbia. The range extends across the Rocky Mountains in Montana and then spreads north and south on the Great Plains to reach Alberta, the western Dakotas and northern New Mexico. The habitat consists of open ponderosa pine forests, drier sagebrush steppe and juniper woodlands.

Hypolamprus taphiusalis is a species of moth of the family Thyrididae. It is found in West Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Brunei, Borneo and Java. The habitat consists of lowland to lower montane forest at altitudes of about 1,500 meters.

Idaea mustelata is a moth of the family Geometridae. In Europe it is only found on the Iberian Peninsula. It is also found in North Africa, from Morocco up to Western Algeria. It was considered a subspecies of Idaea rusticata up to 2004 when it was re-instated at species level by Axel Hausmann.

Izatha caustopa is a lichen tuft moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known very locally, and very infrequently, from the southern half of the North Island: two specimens collected in 2016 were the first seen for 30 years. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.

Laothoe amurensis, the aspen hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.

Leucoblepsis excisa is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by George Hampson in 1892. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Records for Taiwan, refer to the species Leucoblepsis taiwanensis.

Lophocampa modesta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela.

Macroglossum limata is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is known from Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Meyrickella torquesauria is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1892. It is found in Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.

Neotherina callas is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Herbert Druce in 1892. It is a moderately common species is found at altitudes between 1,100 and 2,800 meters throughout Costa Rica.

Nordstromia grisearia is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1892. It is found in the Russian Far East, Japan and China.

Odontoptila is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1897. Its only species, Odontoptila obrimo, was first described by Druce in 1892. It is found in Central and North America.

Paradiarsia coturnicola is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the South Siberian Mountains, central Yakutia, the mountains of north-eastern Siberia, and the area of Russia north of the Russian Far East.

Prionapteryx lancerotella is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found on the Canary Islands.

Pseudotessellarctia ursina is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Schaus in 1892. It is found in Brazil.

Pyrgotis plinthoglypta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Selenarctia elissa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1892. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis, the Kuldja hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1892. It is found in eastern Kazakhstan, western Xinjiang province in China, eastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and eastern Afghanistan.

Synegiodes histrionaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in Taiwan and India.

Tamphana marmorea is a moth in the Bombycidae family. It was described by Schaus in 1892. It is found in Costa Rica and Brazil.

Theretra insularis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is known from the Philippines, north-eastern Borneo, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.

Thopeutis galleriellus is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Spain, France, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, North Africa, the Near East, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Iraq.

Trichoptilus inclitus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Australia.

Yponomeuta gigas is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found on the Canary Islands.