Cerastis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

• Cerastis faceta (Treitschke, 1835)
• Cerastis leucographa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – white-marked
• Cerastis orientalis Boursin, 1948
• Cerastis pallescens (Butler, 1878)
• Cerastis robertsoni Crabo & Lafontaine, 1997
• Cerastis rubricosa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – red chestnut
• Cerastis tenebrifera – reddish speckled dart
• Cerastis violetta Boursin, 1955

Subgenus Metalepsis

• Cerastis cornuta (Grote, 1874)
• Cerastis enigmatica Crabo & Lafontaine, 1997
• Cerastis fishii (Grote, 1878)
• Cerastis gloriosa Crabo & Lafontaine, 1997
• Cerastis salicarum (Walker, 1857)

• Cerastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Crabo, Lars and J. Donald Lafontaine. 1997. A Revision of the Cerastis cornuta group of the geunus Cerastis subgenus Metalepsis (Noctuidae)^{[permanent dead link‍]}