Species first discovered in Hong Kong

This list contains species first discovered in Hong Kong, with the endemic species asterisked.

• Bauhinia (Bauhinia blakeana)
• Crapnell's camellia (Camellia crapnelliana)
• Grantham's camellia (Camellia granthamiana)
• Hong Kong camellia (Camellia hongkongensis)
• Hong Kong dogwood (Dendrobenthamia hongkongensis)
• Hong Kong iris (Iris speculatrix)
• Hong Kong balsam (Impatiens hongkongensis)
• Pavetta (Pavetta hongkongensis)
• Hong Kong croton (Croton hancei)*
• Hong Kong wild kumquat (Fortunella hindsii), see Kumquat
• Hong Kong bamboo (Arundinaria shiuyingiana)*
• Lantau star-anise (Illicium angustisepalum)*
• Hong Kong asarum (Asarum hongkongense)*
• Shiuying bamboo (Arundinaria shiuyingiana)*
• Subglabrous cane (Sasa subglabra)*
• Two-coloured bulbophyllum (Bulbophyllum bicolor)*
• Monteiro's caterpillar orchid (Cheirostylis monteiroi)*
• Entire lip ginger (Zingiber integrilabrum)* (probably extinct)

• Chinese white dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis)

• Romer's tree frog (Philautus romeri)*
• Hong Kong newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis)
• Hong Kong cascade frog (Amolops hongkongensis)
• Short-legged horned toad (Xenophrys brachykolos )*
• Polypedates megacephalus
• Fejervarya multistriata
• Rana macrodactyla
• Microhyla pulchra (Hallowell), 1861

• Hongkong blind skink (Dibamus bogadeki)*
• Lazell's blind snake (Typhlops lazelli)*
• Anderson's stream snake (Ophisthotropis andersonii)
• Eumeces quadrilineatus (Blyth), 1853
• Achalinus rufescens Boulenger, 1888
• Calamaria septentrionalis Boulenger, 1890
• Dendrelaphis hollonrakei Lazell, 2002
• Ahaetulla prasina medioxima (Lazzell, 2002)

• Aphyocpris lini
• Hong Kong paradisefish (Macropodus hongkongensis)
• Pseudogastromyzon myersi
• Parazacco spilurus (Gunther), 1868
• Pseudohemiculter dispar (Peters), 1880
• Oreonectes platycephalus Gunther, 1868
• Rhinogobius duospilus (Herre, 1935)
• Bathyphylax bombifrons Myers, 1934
• Figaro melanobranchus (Chan), 1965
• Sphyraena putnamiae Jordan & Schlegel, 1905
• Osteomugil strongylocephalus (Richardson), 1846
• Argyrosomus pawak Lin, 1940
• Nibea chui Trewavas, 1971
• Callionymus altipinnis Fricke, 1981
• Arnoglossus tenuis Gunther, 1880
• Plagiopsetta fasciatus (Fowler), 1933
• Brachirus swinhonis (Steindachner), 1867
• Cynoglossus lineolatus Steindachner, 1867
• Opistognathus hongkongiensis Chan, 1968
• Bathygobius hongkongensis Lam, 1986
• Paraploactis hongkongiensis (Chan, 1966)*
• Xyrichtys trivittatus Randall & Cornish, 2000
• Neopomacentrus bankieri (Richardson, 1846)

• Phyllodesmium opalescene
• Chloritis hungerfordiana rufopila
• Cryptosoma imperator
• Kaliella hongkongensis
• Macrochlamys discus
• Macrochlamys nitidissma
• Marcrocycloides crenulate
• Microcystina schmackerina
• Microcystina stenomphala
• Sinoenna splendens hongkongensis
• Tornatellira boeningi

• Aglaophamus toloensis Ohwada, 1992

• Phasmatidae
  • Ramulus caii (Brock & Seow-Choen 2000)
  • Entoria victoria Brock & Seow-Choen, 2000*
• Heteronemiidae
  • Phraortes stomphax (Westwood 1859)*
  • Sipyloidea shukayi Bi, Zhang & Lau, 2001*
  • Neohirasea hongkongensis Brock & Seow-Choen, 2000*
  • Macellina souchongia (Westwood, 1859)

• Corydalidae
  • Neochauliodes bowringi (McLachlan, 1867)

• Rhinotermitidae
  • Coptotermes hongkongensis Oshima, 1914
  • Coptotermes melanoistriatus Lau & He, 1995
• Termitidae
  • Ahmaditermes choui Ping & Tong, 1989
  • Macrotermes planicapitatus Gao & Lau, 1996
  • Nasutitermes choui Ping & Xu, 1989
  • Nasutitermes dudgeoni Gao & Lam, 1986

• Epipsocidae
  • Hinduipsocus hongkongensis Li & Mockford, 1997
• Mesopsocidae
  • Mesopsocus hongkongensis Thornton, 1959
• Peripsocidae
  • Peripsocus hongkongensis Thornton & Wong, 1968

• Aleyrodidae
  • Paraleyrodes pseudonaranjae Martin, 2001
• Aphididae
  • Aulacophoroides millettiae Qiao, Jiang & Martin, 2006
  • Toxoptera victroiae Martin, 1991
• Coccidae
  • Cribropulvinaria tailungensis Hodgson & Martin, 2001
  • Fistulococcus pokfulamensis Hodgson & Martin, 2005
• Miridae
  • Orientomiris sinicus (Walker), 1873

• Helicopsychidae
  • Helicopsyche agnetae Johanson & Oláh, 2008

• Environment of Hong Kong

For the plants:

• Hu Qi-ming ed., 2003. Rare and Precious Plants of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department; Friends of the Country Parks; Cosmos Books. October 2003 revised edition. ISBN 988-201-616-2.

For the animals:

• Bai, H.Y. & Li, H.H., 2008, A review of the genus Gibbovalva (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Gracillariinae) from China. Oriental Insects 42: 317-326.
• Bai, H.Y, Li, H.H. & Kendrick, R.C., 2009. Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Checklist of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera: Gracillarioidea). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 37 (148): 495-509.
• Diakonoff, A., 1984. Synopsis and descriptions of new species of the South Asiatic Cochylinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with an appendix. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 58: 261-293. (including full text PDF)
• Fibiger, M. 2008: Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae. Zootaxa, 1867: 1-136. Abstract & excerpt
• Fibiger, M. 2010: Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae. Zootaxa, 2583: 1–119. Preview
• Galsworthy, A.C., 1997. New and revised species of macrolepidoptera from Hong Kong. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society. 21: 127-150, 25 figures, 1 plate.
• Galsworthy, A.C., 1998a. Two new species of acontiines from Hong Kong (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acontiinae). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 49: 30-32.
• Galsworthy, A.C., 1998b. A new species of Pingasa (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae) from Hong Kong. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 49: 104-106.
• Galsworthy, A.C., 1999a. Two new species of Sauris (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Hong Kong. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 50: 35-37.
• Galsworthy, A.C., 1999b. New and revised eupitheciine species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Hong Kong and South East Asia. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 50: 223-234
• Inoue, H., 1996. Revision of the genus Palpita Hübner (Crambidae, Pyraustinae) from the Eastern Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian Regions. Part 1: Group A (annulifer Group). Tinea 15: 12-46.
• Inoue, H., 1999. Revision of the genus Palpita Hübner (Crambidae, Pyraustinae) from the Eastern Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian Regions. Part 3: Additions and Corrections. Tinea 16: 52-60.
• Lafontaine, J.D. & Fibiger, M. 2006: Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Canadian Entomologist 138: 610-635. doi:10.4039/n06-012
• László, G.M. & Sterling, M. 2020: Illustrated checklist of Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) of Hong Kong, China, with description of two new species. Ecologica Montenegrina 33: 33-58. doi:10.37828/em.2020.33.6
• Li, H., Zhang, Z. & Sinez, S.Y., 2012. Review of the genus Scaeosopha Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Scaeosophinae) in the world, with descriptions of sixteen new species. Zootaxa 3322: 1-34. Preview
• Li, H.H., Zhen, H., Kendrick, R.C. & Sterling, M.J., 2010. Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Taxonomic study on the genus Dichomeris Hübner, 1818, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 38 (149): 67-89.
• Sato, R., 1996. Six new species of the genus Psilalcis Warren (Geometridae, Ennominae) from Indo-Malayan region, with some taxonomic notes on the allied species. Tinea 15: 55-68.
• Sato, R. & Galsworthy, A.C., 1998. Description of a new species of the genus Microcalicha Sato (Geometridae) from Hong Kong. Tinea 15: 240-242.
• Solis, M. A.; Pratt, P.; Makinson, J.; Zonneveld, R. & Lake, E., 2017. Another new Lygodium-boring species of the musotimine genus Siamusotima (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from China. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 119 (3): 471–480. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.119.3.471.
• Wang, A.L., Wang, S.X. & Guan, W., 2021. Genus Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from China: Descriptions of ten new species. Zootaxa 4908: 451–472. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4908.4.1
• Wang, S. & Kendrick, R.C., 2009. Genus Stereodytis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) of China, with descriptions of two new species. Entomologica Fennica 20: 186–190. abstract
• Wang, S.X., Kendrick, R.C. & Sterling, P., 2009. Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae I: the genus Promalactis Meyrick. Zootaxa 2239: 31–44. [1] (abstract)
• Yang, L., Li, H. & Kendrick, R.C., 2012. Taxonomic study of the genus Thisizima Walker, 1864 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Tineidae). ZooKeys 254: 109–120. doi:10.3897/zookeys.254.3952
• Yu, G.Y. & Lau, C.S.K., 2001. A contribution to knowledge of the ladybirds of Hong Kong, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society. 24: 147-179.

• Hong Kong Plant Database
• Hong Kong Butterflies listing
• Hong Kong Moths listing
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index