 The word Copromorphidae derives from the Ancient Greek words (') meaning "excrement" and (') meaning "shape" or "appearance", a reference to the visual characteristics of the moths' camouflage.These moths are widely distributed except the Palearctic region, occurring in Madagascar, India, South East Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Neotropics, with limited temperate region coverage except that the genera "Lotisma" and "Ellabella" occur in North America, and the latter also in China (Common, 1990).Over 20 belong to the genus "Copromorpha" occurring in Indo-Australia (Dugdale et al., 1999).