The list below shows most species of insect that have been identified in and around Arthur's Pass National Park. As time goes on I will try and provide identifying images with most of these. In the meantime visit iNaturalist to view many of these.

Endemic & Introduced Species

Common Name Species	Image
Actenonyx bembidioides	© Jenny Saito
Alpine brown soldier bug Cermatulus nasalis hudsoni	© Cara-Lisa Schloots
Alpine Lichen Looper Dichromodes niger	© William Brockelsby
Amblyptilia epotis	© Jacob Littlejohn
Apoctena conditana	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Aponotoreas anthracias	© Possums' End
Aponotoreas dissimilis	© Possums' End
Apsona muscaria	© Steve Kerr
Araliad plume Pterophorus monospilalis	© rowanny
Asaphodes abrogata	© James Bailey
Astelia zig-zag moth Charixena iridoxa	© George Vernon Hudson
Australian Pug Moth Chloroclystis filata (Introduced)	© Possums' End
Austrolimnophila lambi	© Dougal Townsend
Austronemobius chelatus	© Oscar Dove
Austrotipula hudsoni	© Dougal Townsend
Beech Buprestid Beetle Nascioides enysi	© Jacob Littlejohn
Black & White Owlet Ichneutica paracausta	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Black and Yellow Kelleria Looper Notoreas mechanitis	© Christopher Stephens
Black Cockroach-hunter Wasp Tachysphex nigerrimus	© Tony Wills
Black Mountain Ringlet Percnodaimon merula	© Saryu Mae
Black Stonefly Austroperla cyrene	© Steve Kerr
Blackhorn Moth Protosynaema quaestuosa	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Blue Damselfly Austrolestes colensonis	© Alice Shanks
Brown forest flash Pseudocoremia productata	© Possums' End
Brown soldier bug Cermatulus nasalis	© Steve Kerr
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus terrestris (Introduced)	© José María
Butler's Ringlet Erebiola butleri	© Liadan Dickie
Cabbage Butterfly Pieris rapae (Introduced)	© aperture_encounters
Campbell's Cicada Maoricicada campbelli	© Graeme Ure
Canterbury Alpine Boulder Copper Lycaena tama	© Julie Vause
Canterbury Scree Cicada Maoricicada mangu mangu	© William Harland
Carové's Giant Dragonfly Uropetala carovei	© Evi Gierisch
Catoptes funestus	© Jacob Littlejohn
Celatoblatta undulivitta	© Saryu Mae
Certonotus fractinervis	© Cara-Lisa Schloots
Chalastra pellurgata	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Chalcodrya variegata	© Emily Roberts
Chilton's Giant Dragonfly Uropetala chiltoni	© Erland Refling Nielsen
Chorus Cicada Amphipsalta zelandica	© V. Lohr
Cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae (Introduced)
Clock cicada Kikihia horologium
Common Bag Moth Liothula omnivora
Common Drone Fly Eristalis tenax (Introduced)
Common Forest Looper Pseudocoremia suavis
Common Grass Moth Orocrambus vittellus
Common tussock butterfly Argyrophenga antipodum
Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris (Introduced)
Conocephalus bilineatus (Introduced)
Cosmopolitan Diving Beetle Rhantus suturalis
Costachorema brachypterum
Creekbed Orange Underwing Paranotoreas zopyra	© Possums' End
Dark Coprosma Carpet Austrocidaria similata	© Peter de Lange
Dark sword-grass Agrotis ipsilon	© joannerusso
Dark-banded Carpet Moth Hydriomena deltoidata	© Steve Kerr
Dasyuris leucobathra	© Christopher Stephens
Demetrida nasuta	© Jacob Littlejohn
Diagrypnodes wakefieldi	© Kristi
Dioxycanus oreas	© Jacob Littlejohn
Discobola dohrni	© Grey Smith
Eastern Tiger Moth Metacrias huttonii
Eburida picta
Eburida quadriguttata
Elephant Weevil Rhynchodes ursus
Epichorista hemionana
Eudonia critica
Eudonia feredayi
Eudonia hemicycla
Eudonia legnota
Eudonia leucogramma
Eudonia melanaegis
Eudonia torodes
Eumetriochroa panacifinens
Euosmylus stellae
Exsul tenuis
Five Finger Looper Xyridacma alectoraria
Flax notcher moth Ichneutica steropastis
Flax window-maker Orthoclydon praefectata
Forest Ghost Moth Aoraia enysii
Forest Looper Pseudocoremia leucelaea
Forest Semilooper Declana floccosa
Forest shield bug Oncacontias vittatus
Garner’s tiger beetle Neocicindela garnerae
Glaucocharis interrupta
Glaucocharis pyrsophanes
Golden Hunting Wasp Sphictostethus nitidus
Graphotachina sinuata
Gray's Dragonfly Procordulia grayi
Greater Beech Leafroller Apoctena pictoriana
Greater Orange Underwing Dasyuris anceps
Green-Toothed Owlet Ichneutica chlorodonta
Ground Yellowjackets Vespula (Introduced)
Gymnobathra calliploca
Gynoplistia heighwayi
Helle longirostris
Helophilus antipodus
Helophilus cingulatus
Helophilus montanus
Hemiandrus maculifrons
Heterocrossa eriphylla
Hisparonia hystrix
Horn-cased Caddisfly Olinga feredayi
Huttonobesseria verecunda
Ichneutica agorastis
Ichneutica atristriga
Ichneutica lignana
Ichneutica morosa
Ichneutica rubescens
Izatha huttonii
Janita's Tussock Argyrophenga janitae
Kanuka looper Poecilasthena schistaria
Kawakawa looper Cleora scriptaria
Kiwimiris melanocerus
Lancewood psyllid Trioza panacis
Large black hunting wasp Priocnemis monachus
Large Green Stoneflies Stenoperla
Large Grey Owlet Ichneutica ustistriga
Large Hover Fly Melangyna novaezelandiae
Large Striped Carpet Asaphodes clarata
Leptotarsus vulpinus
Lophus lewisi
Lycaena butterflies Lycaena
Lysiphragma epixyla
Macropathus filifer
Magpie moth Nyctemera annulata
Mahoe-stripper moth Feredayia graminosa
Metacrias
Meterana dotata
Mischoderus forcipatus
Mitophyllus parrianus
Mnesarchella acuta
Mordella promiscua
Mount Cook Flea Pharmacus montanus
Mountain Scoparia Eudonia trivirgata
Native cranberry moth Poecilasthena pulchraria
Nesameletus
Nesameletus austrinus
New Zealand Blue Zizina oxleyi
New Zealand Blue Blowfly Calliphora quadrimaculata
New Zealand Grasshopper Phaulacridium marginale
New Zealand Red Admiral Vanessa gonerilla gonerilla
New Zealand Reticulated Stag Beetle Paralissotes reticulatus
New Zealand Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sordidum	© wild_wind
North Island Boulder Copper Lycaena boldenarum
Norton's Giant Ichneumonid Wasp Megarhyssa nortoni (Introduced)
Notoreas ischnocyma
Notoreas paradelpha
Notoreas simplex
Onysius anomalus
Ophion peregrinus
Orange Underwing Paranotoreas brephosata
Orocrambus angustipennis
Orocrambus catacaustus
Orocrambus melampetrus
Orocrambus simplex
outhouse fly Sylvicola neozelandicus
Pachyrhamma delli
Pasiphila sandycias
Phaeosaces apocrypta
Physetica caerulea
Physetica longstaffi
Pittosporum shield bug Monteithiella humeralis (Introduced)
Pleioplectron simplex
Poecilasthena subpurpureata
Priocnemis conformis
Proscissio milleri
Protosynaema eratopis
Pyronota
Raukaua leaf miner moth Eumetriochroa panacivermiforma
Red Damselfly Xanthocnemis zealandica
Riverbed Triangle Arctesthes catapyrrha
Rusty Dotted Triangle Mnesictena flavidalis
Rusty Hebe Looper Dasyuris callicrena
Sabatinca aurella
Sagephora steropastis
Saropogon fugiens
Scoparia cyameuta	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Scoparia minusculalis	© Aalbert Rebergen
Screaming Cicada Maoricicada cassiope	© Jon Sullivan
Scree Wêtã Deinacrida connectens	© bumblebee11
Selenopalpus rectipes	© kphillips42
Sigaus australis	© Simon
Sigaus collinus	© Melissa Hutchison
Sigaus nitidus	© Christopher Stephens
Sigaus nivalis	© darmozrac
Small Brown Bush Ant Prolasius advena
Smith's Dragonfly Procordulia smithii
Sod webworm Eudonia sabulosella
Southern Ant Chelaner antarcticus
Southern Armyworm Persectania aversa
Sphictostethus fugax
Stathmopoda coracodes
Stenoperla prasina
Stone Jumper Kiwaia lithodes
Stone Moth Eudonia cataxesta
Streaked Inanga Looper Ipana glacialis
Striated Ant Huberia striata
Subalpine Green Cicada Kikihia subalpina
Synacalles peelensis
Talitropsis sedilloti
Tarata Flat Moth Nymphostola galactina	© Aalbert Rebergen
Tawny Nesocolletes Leioproctus fulvescens	© Jenny Saito
Transwinter Owlet Meterana vitiosa	© Christopher Stephens
Wellington Tree Wêtã Hemideina crassidens	© Kyle Bland
Western Brown Carpet Asaphodes cataphracta	© Carey-Knox-Southern-Scales
Yellow Field Bell Moth Clepsis leucaniana	© Aalbert Rebergen
Zeanecrophilus prolongatus	© Sebastian Doak
Zelandoperla decorata	© Jacob Littlejohn
Zelandoperla fenestrata

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