Family Goeridae Ulmer

Author: Takao NOZAKI
E-mail: takao.nozaki[AT]nifty.com
Last updated: 4 October 2026

Subfamily Goerinae Ulmer

Genus Goera Stephens

Goera akagiae Tanida and Nozaki 2006 (in Nozaki and Tanida 2006)

Goera sp. GC: Akagi 1974

Distribution. Japan (Shikoku, Kyushu, Koshiki-jima, Yaku-shima, Amami-Oshima).

Goera curvispina Martynov 1935

Goera gyotokui Kobayashi 1957

Distribution. Japan (Honshu (central to western), Kyushu), Korea, Russia (Khabarovsk, Primorye).

Goera dilatata Nozaki and Tanida 2006

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido (southern), Honshu (northern)).

Goera extrorsa Nozaki 2017

Distribution. Japan (Honshu).

Goera japonica Banks 1906

Lithax karafutonis Matsumura 1911

Goera pilosa (non Fabricius 1775): Iwata 1927a

Goera nipponensis Navás 1933

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku , Kyushu, Rebun-to, Sado, Oki (Dogo, Nakanoshima), Tsushima, Fukue-jima, Amakusa-shimo-shima, Tanega-shima, Yaku-shima), Sakhalin, Kuriles, Korea (Jeju), Kazakhstan.

Goera kawamotonis Kobayashi 1987

Goera sp. GA: Tsuda and Akagi 1956

Distribution. Japan (Honshu (central to western), Kyushu), Russia (Khabarovsk, Primorye), Korea.

Goera kyotonis Tsuda 1942

Distribution. Japan (Honshu (central to western), Shikoku, Kyushu, Oki (based on larva)).

Goera lepidoptera Schmid 1965

Distribution. Japan (Honshu central to northern))

Goera minuta Ulmer 1927

Distribution. Japan (Ishigaki-jima), Taiwan.

Goera nigrosoma Nozaki and Tanida 2006

Goera sp. GB: Tsuda and Akagi 1962

Distribution. Japan (Honshu (central to western), Shikoku).

Goera ogasawaraensis Kuranishi 2005 (in Satake et al. 2005)

Distribution. Japan (Ogasawara).

Goera rupicola Nozaki and Shimura 2020

Distribution. Japan (Amami-Oshima, Okinawa-jima).

Goera shikokuensis Nozaki and Tanida 2006

Distribution. Japan (Shikoku, Kyushu).

Goera spicata Schmid 1965

Distribution. Japan (Honshu (central)).

Goera tajimaensis Tanida and Nozaki 2006 (in Nozaki and Tanida 2006)

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Kyushu).

Goera tenuis Ulmer 1927

Distribution. Japan (Ishigaki-jima, Iriomote-jima), Taiwan.

Goera tungusensis Martynov 1909

Goera sajanensis Martynov 1924

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Rebun-to), Russia (Siberia, continental Far East), Canada (Quebec), USA (Alaska).

Goera uchina Tanida and Nozaki 2006 (in Nozaki and Tanida 2006)

Goera sp. GD: Tanida 1997

Distribution. Japan (Okinawa, Ishigaki-jima).

Goera species indeterminate

Genus Silo Curtis

A single species, Silo nigricellus Matsumura, is recorded from Hokkaido, but the generic identification is very doubtful (Nozaki et al. 2000).

Silo nigricellus Matsumura 1907

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido).

Subfamily Larcasinae Navás

Genus Larcasia Navás

Larcasia akagiae Nishimoto and Tanida 1999 (in Nishimoto et al. 1999)

Imania sp. IA: Tanida 1985

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Shikoku).

Larcasia minor Nishimoto 1999 (in Nishimoto et al. 1999)