List of moths of Ghana explained

There are about 830 known moth species of Ghana. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Ghana.

Anomoeotidae

• Staphylinochrous euryphaea Hampson, 1920

Arctiidae

• Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865)
• Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
• Afrasura discocellularis (Strand, 1912)
• Afrasura indecisa (Walker, 1869)
• Afrasura numida (Holland, 1893)
• Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
• Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855)
• Aloa moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
• Alpenus affiniola (Strand, 1919)
• Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Alpenus nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Alpenus schraderi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Amata basithyris Hampson, 1914
• Amata nigrobasalis Rothschild, 1910
• Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila fennia (Druce, 1887)
• Amerila leucoptera (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila metasarca (Hampson, 1911)
• Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)
• Amerila puella (Fabricius, 1793)
• Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910)
• Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)
• Amsacta bicoloria (Gaede, 1916)
• Amsacta fuscosa (Bartel, 1903)
• Amsacta latimarginalis Rothschild, 1933
• Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
• Anapisa sjoestedti (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912)
• Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
• Asura atricraspeda Hampson, 1914
• Asura distyi Kühne, 2007
• Asura spurrelli (Hampson, 1914)
• Automolis pallida (Hampson, 1901)
• Balacra batesi Druce, 1910
• Balacra caeruleifascia Walker, 1856
• Balacra ehrmanni (Holland, 1893)
• Balacra flavimacula Walker, 1856
• Balacra furva Hampson, 1911
• Balacra herona (Druce, 1887)
• Balacra rubricincta Holland, 1893
• Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Binna penicillata Walker, 1865
• Binna scita (Walker, 1865)
• Caryatis phileta (Drury, 1782)
• Ceryx semihyalina Kirby, 1896
• Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Crocosia phaeocraspis Hampson, 1914
• Cyana basisticta (Hampson, 1914)
• Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
• Cyana rubritermina (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Disparctia vittata (Druce, 1898)
• Dubatolovia neurophaea (Hampson, 1911)
• Eilema angustipennis Strand, 1912
• Eilema apicalis (Walker, 1862)
• Eilema conisphora (Hampson, 1914)
• Eilema proleuca (Hampson, 1914)
• Epilacydes scita (Walker, 1865)
• Estigmene flaviceps Hampson, 1907
• Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Euchromia hampsoni Seitz, 1926
• Eugoa gemina Hampson, 1914
• Eugoa winneba Kühne, 2007
• Euproctosia cretata Hampson, 1914
• Exilisia disticha (Hampson, 1914)
• Logunovium nigricosta (Holland, 1893)
• Melisa croceipes (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Melisa diptera (Walker, 1854)
• Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900
• Metarctia haematica Holland, 1893
• Metarctia inconspicua Holland, 1892
• Metarctia kumasina Strand, 1920
• Metarctia priscilla Kiriakoff, 1957
• Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)
• Muxta xanthopa (Holland, 1893)
• Myopsyche notoplagia Hampson, 1898
• Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880)
• Nanna melanosticta (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Neuroxena flammea (Schaus, 1893)
• Neuroxena medioflavus (Rothschild, 1935)
• Neuroxena sulphureovitta (Strand, 1909)
• Neuroxena truncatus (Rothschild, 1933)
• Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
• Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera druna (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera restrictum (Butler, 1894)
• Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880)
• Ovenna guineacola (Strand, 1912)
• Ovenna subgriseola (Strand, 1912)
• Paralpenus atripes (Hampson, 1909)
• Paralpenus flavizonata (Hampson, 1911)
• Paremonia argentata Hampson, 1914
• Phryganopsis angulifascia (Strand, 1912)
• Pseudothyretes nigrita (Kiriakoff, 1961)
• Pusiola celida (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Pusiola minutissima (Kiriakoff, 1958)
• Radiarctia lutescens (Walker, 1854)
• Siccia cretata Hampson, 1914
• Siccia gypsia Hampson, 1914
• Siccia microsticta Hampson, 1914
• Siccia stictica Hampson, 1914
• Spilosoma affinis Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma aurantiaca (Holland, 1893)
• Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma karschi Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma occidens (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma pellucida (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma quadrilunata (Hampson, 1901)
• Spilosoma rava (Druce, 1898)
• Spilosoma sulphurea Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903
• Teracotona buryi Rothschild, 1910
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Zobida trinitas (Strand, 1912)

Copromorphidae

• Rhynchoferella simplex Strand, 1915

Cossidae

• Cossus fanti Hampson, 1910
• Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder, 1874
• Phragmataecia sericeata Hampson, 1910
• Xyleutes biatra (Hampson, 1910)

Crambidae

• Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Argyractis accra (Strand, 1913)
• Chalcidoptera argyrophoralis Hampson, 1912
• Charltona albimixtalis Hampson, 1919
• Chilo orichalcociliella (Strand, 1911)
• Cirrhochrista grabczewskyi E. Hering, 1903
• Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1895)
• Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875)
• Filodes normalis Hampson, 1912
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Lamprosema pervulgalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Mesolia microdontalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Nausinoe geometralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Obtusipalpis albidalis Hampson, 1919
• Obtusipalpis fusipartalis Hampson, 1919
• Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)
• Phostria hampsonialis Schaus, 1920
• Pilocrocis pterygodia Hampson, 1912
• Platytes duplicilinea (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionotalis peracutella Hampson, 1919
• Psara brunnealis (Hampson, 1913)
• Psara minoralis (Warren, 1892)
• Pseudocatharylla argenticilia (Hampson, 1919)
• Pseudocatharylla peralbellus (Hampson, 1919)
• Pyrausta violascens Hampson, 1918
• Sufetula trichophysetis Hampson, 1912
• Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852

Drepanidae

• Epicampoptera ivoirensis Watson, 1965
• Isospidia angustipennis (Warren, 1904)
• Negera bimaculata (Holland, 1893)
• Negera confusa Walker, 1855
• Negera disspinosa Watson, 1965
• Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)
• Spidia fenestrata Butler, 1878
• Uranometra oculata (Holland, 1893)

Elachistidae

• Ethmia livida (Zeller, 1852)
• Ethmia oculigera (Möschler, 1883)
• Ptilobola inornatella (Walsingham, 1891)

Eupterotidae

• Acrojana rosacea Butler, 1874
• Acrojana splendida Rothschild, 1917
• Hoplojana soricis Rothschild, 1917
• Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Jana gracilis Walker, 1855
• Jana obscura Aurivillius, 1893
• Stenoglene plagiatus (Aurivillius, 1911)

Gelechiidae

• Prasodryas fracticostella (Walsingham, 1891)

Geometridae

• Acrostatheusis apicitincta Prout, 1915
• Aletis helcita (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Allochrostes impunctata (Warren, 1897)
• Antharmostes interalbicans Warren, 1902
• Aphilopota cardinalli Prout, 1954
• Aphilopota statuta Prout, 1954
• Cartaletis gracilis (Möschler, 1887)
• Chiasmia albivia (Prout, 1915)
• Chiasmia feraliata (Guenée, 1858)
• Chiasmia impar (Warren, 1897)
• Chiasmia majestica (Warren, 1901)
• Coenina aurivena Butler, 1898
• Comostolopsis stillata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Cyclophora sublunata (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Epicosymbia chrysoparalias (Prout, 1917)
• Epigynopteryx ansorgei (Warren, 1901)
• Ereunetea flava Warren, 1909
• Gelasmodes fasciata (Warren, 1899)
• Geodena partita Swinhoe, 1904
• Geodena surrendra Swinhoe, 1904
• Heterostegane monilifera Prout, 1915
• Idaea prucholoma (Prout, 1932)
• Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Lophostola cara Prout, 1913
• Malgassapeira mixtilinea (Warren, 1909)
• Melinoessa aemonia (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Melinoessa aureola Prout, 1934
• Mixocera albimargo Warren, 1901
• Narthecusa tenuiorata Walker, 1862
• Oedicentra gerydaria Swinhoe, 1904
• Pitthea continua Walker, 1854
• Prasinocyma hadrata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Prasinocyma niveisticta Prout, 1912
• Prasinocyma rhodocycla Prout, 1917
• Prasinocyma rugistrigula Prout, 1912
• Racotis squalida (Butler, 1878)
• Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
• Somatina accraria Swinhoe, 1904
• Somatina apicipuncta Prout, 1915
• Somatina chalyboeata (Walker, 1869)
• Syncollesis coerulea (Warren, 1896)
• Terina doleris (Plötz, 1880)
• Thetidia undulilinea (Warren, 1905)
• Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895
• Xenimpia sillaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Xylopteryx nacaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Zamarada acrochra Prout, 1928
• Zamarada adumbrata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada anacantha D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada corroborata Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada crystallophana Mabille, 1900
• Zamarada cucharita D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada cydippe Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada dentigera Warren, 1909
• Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
• Zamarada dolorosa D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada dyscapna D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada eucharis (Drury, 1782)
• Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
• Zamarada euphrosyne Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada flavicosta Warren, 1897
• Zamarada ignicosta Prout, 1912
• Zamarada indicata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada leona Gaede, 1915
• Zamarada lepta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada mimesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
• Zamarada paxilla D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada perlepidata (Walker, 1863)
• Zamarada protrusa Warren, 1897
• Zamarada reflexaria (Walker, 1863)
• Zamarada regularis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada vigilans Prout, 1915
• Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Gracillariidae

• Caloptilia pseudoaurita Triberti, 1989
• Stomphastis thraustica (Meyrick, 1908)

Lasiocampidae

• Euphorea ondulosa (Conte, 1909)
• Filiola dogma Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Filiola fulgurata (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Gastroplakaeis delicatulus Aurivillius, 1911
• Gastroplakaeis forficulatus (Möschler, 1887)
• Gonometa imperialis Aurivillius, 1915
• Grellada imitans (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Leipoxais dives Aurivillius, 1915
• Leipoxais humfreyi Aurivillius, 1915
• Leipoxais manica Hering, 1928
• Leipoxais proboscidea (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Odontocheilopteryx haribda Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
• Odontocheilopteryx pattersoni Tams, 1926
• Odontocheilopteryx phoneus Hering, 1928
• Odontogama nigricans Aurivillius, 1914
• Opisthodontia spodopasta Tams, 1931
• Pachymeta immunda (Holland, 1893)
• Pachymetana guttata (Aurivillius, 1914)
• Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
• Pachytrina elygara Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Pachytrina honrathii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
• Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Philotherma jacchus Möschler, 1887
• Pseudometa choba (Druce, 1899)
• Pseudometa pagetodes Tams, 1929
• Sena cardinalli (Tams, 1931)
• Stoermeriana sjostedti (Aurivillius, 1902)
• Theophasida cardinalli (Tams, 1926)
• Theophasida serafim Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Trabala burchardii (Dewitz, 1881)

Limacodidae

• Altha rubrifusalis Hampson, 1910
• Casphalia elegans Jordan, 1915
• Ctenolita argyrobapta Karsch, 1899
• Hadraphe aprica Karsch, 1899
• Hyphorma subterminalis Hampson, 1910
• Latoia albilinea (Hampson, 1910)
• Macroplectra bilineata West, 1940
• Macroplectra fuscifusa Hampson, 1910
• Miresa gilba Karsch, 1899
• Narosa irrorata West, 1940
• Niphadolepis lampra Hering, 1933
• Niphadolepis schultzei Hering, 1932
• Parapluda syngrapha (Hampson, 1910)
• Parasa divisa West, 1940
• Parasa mesochloris Hampson, 1910
• Perola cardinalli (West, 1940)
• Semyrilla lineata (Holland, 1893)
• Sporetolepis argyrolepia (Hampson, 1910)
• Susica molybdea Hampson, 1910
• Zinara recurvata Hampson, 1910

Lymantriidae

• Bracharoa mixta (Snellen, 1872)
• Conigephyra unipunctata (Möschler, 1887)
• Cropera testacea Walker, 1855
• Crorema mentiens Walker, 1855
• Crorema ochracea (Snellen, 1872)
• Dasychira bergmannii (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Dasychira endophaea Hampson, 1910
• Dasychira goodii (Holland, 1893)
• Dasychira hieroglyphica (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Dasychira libella Swinhoe, 1904
• Dasychira punctifera (Walker, 1857)
• Dasychira sordida Möschler, 1887
• Dasychira sphaleroides Hering, 1926
• Dasychira stegmanni Grünberg, 1910
• Dasychira subflava (Walker, 1855)
• Eudasychira dina (Hering, 1926)
• Eudasychira quinquepunctata Möschler, 1887
• Euproctis cryphia Collenette, 1960
• Euproctis fumitincta Hampson, 1910
• Euproctis lepidographa Hampson, 1910
• Euproctis melanopholis Hampson, 1910
• Euproctis pygmaea (Walker, 1855)
• Euproctis rufiterga Hampson, 1910
• Euproctoides acrisia Plötz, 1880
• Griveaudyria ila (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Heteronygmia chismona Swinhoe, 1903
• Heteronygmia manicata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Laelia atrisquamata Hampson, 1910
• Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Laelia gigantea Hampson, 1910
• Laelia pheosia (Hampson, 1910)
• Laelia pulcherrima (Hering, 1926)
• Leucoma ogovensis (Holland, 1893)
• Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
• Lomadonta obscura Swinhoe, 1904
• Lomadonta ochriaria Hampson, 1910
• Marblepsis flabellaria (Fabricius, 1787)
• Mylantria xanthospila (Plötz, 1880)
• Naroma signifera Walker, 1856
• Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
• Neomardara africana (Holland, 1893)
• Opoboa chrysoparala Collenette, 1932
• Otroeda hesperia (Cramer, 1779)
• Otroeda nerina (Drury, 1780)
• Otroeda planax (Drury, 1780)
• Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
• Pseudonotodonta virescens (Möschler, 1887)
• Stracena fuscivena Swinhoe, 1903
• Stracena promelaena (Holland, 1893)

Metarbelidae

• Haberlandia otfriedi Lehmann, 2011
• Haberlandia rohdei Lehmann, 2011
• Metarbela cremorna Hampson, 1920
• Metarbela laguna Hampson, 1920
• Moyencharia ochreicosta (Gaede, 1929)
• Ortharbela diagonalis (Hampson, 1910)
• Salagena fuscata Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae

• Aburina leucocharagma Hampson, 1926
• Aburina phoenocrosmena Hampson, 1926
• Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)
• Achaea catocaloides Guenée, 1852
• Achaea ezea (Cramer, 1779)
• Achaea faber Holland, 1894
• Achaea indicabilis Walker, 1858
• Achaea jamesoni L. B. Prout, 1919
• Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
• Achaea mercatoria (Fabricius, 1775)
• Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858
• Achaea occidens (Hampson, 1913)
• Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia gratiosa Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia hampsoni Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia hemiselenias (Hampson, 1918)
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia nigrimacula Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia veroxanthia Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• Acontia wahlbergi Wallengren, 1856
• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Aegocera tigrina (Druce, 1882)
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Andobana multipunctata (Druce, 1899)
• Androlymnia torsivena (Hampson, 1902)
• Anigraea purpurascens Hampson, 1912
• Anoba glyphica (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Anoba sinuata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Anomis endochlora Hampson, 1926
• Antarchaea signifera Hampson, 1926
• Anticarsia albilineata Hampson, 1926
• Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Athyrma discimacula Hampson, 1926
• Audea endophaea Hampson, 1913
• Audea kathrina Kühne, 2005
• Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
• Avitta atripuncta Hampson, 1926
• Baniopis pulverea Hampson, 1926
• Belciana euchlora Hampson, 1926
• Blasticorhinus trichopoda Hampson, 1926
• Brevipecten politzari Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Calligraphidia opulenta (Möschler, 1887)
• Callixena versicolora Saalmüller, 1891
• Caryonopera conifera Hampson, 1926
• Catephia cryptodisca Hampson, 1926
• Catephia dipterygia Hampson, 1926
• Catephia endoplaga Hampson, 1926
• Cautatha phoenicea Hampson, 1910
• Cerynea flavibasalis Hampson, 1910
• Cerynea trichobasis Hampson, 1910
• Colbusa euclidica Walker, 1865
• Corgatha enispodes Hampson, 1910
• Corgatha macariodes Hampson, 1910
• Corgatha ozolica Hampson, 1910
• Corgatha regula Gaede, 1916
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
• Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
• Cyligramma amblyops Mabille, 1891
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Digama budonga Bethune-Baker, 1913
• Digama costimacula Swinhoe, 1907
• Drepanophiletis castaneata Hampson, 1926
• Dysgonia conjunctura (Walker, 1858)
• Dysgonia derogans (Walker, 1858)
• Dysgonia palpalis (Walker, 1865)
• Dysgonia pudica (Möschler, 1887)
• Dysgonia rectivia (Hampson, 1913)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Egnasia microsema Hampson, 1926
• Enispa albicosta Hampson, 1910
• Enispa atriceps Hampson, 1910
• Enmonodiops ochrodiscata Hampson, 1926
• Ercheia subsignata (Walker, 1865)
• Erebus walkeri (Butler, 1875)
• Eublemma albicosta Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma albifascia Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma anachoresis (Wallengren, 1863)
• Eublemma atrifusa Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma aurantiaca Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma cochylioides (Guenée, 1852)
• Eublemma exigua (Walker, 1858)
• Eublemma ragusana (Freyer, 1844)
• Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
• Eudrapa metathermeola Hampson, 1926
• Eudrapa mollis Walker, 1857
• Euippodes euprepes Hampson, 1926
• Euminucia conflua Hampson, 1913
• Euminucia orthogona Hampson, 1913
• Eutelia distorta Hampson, 1912
• Eutelia poliochroa Hampson, 1912
• Eutelia subrubens (Mabille, 1890)
• Eutelia symphonica Hampson, 1902
• Exophyla melanocleis Hampson, 1926
• Feliniopsis africana (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Feliniopsis grisea (Laporte, 1973)
• Feliniopsis gueneei (Laporte, 1973)
• Feliniopsis hosplitoides (Laporte, 1979)
• Feliniopsis laportei Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Feliniopsis nigribarbata (Hampson, 1908)
• Focillopis eclipsia Hampson, 1926
• Gonelydna acutangula Hampson, 1910
• Gonioscia meroleuca Hampson, 1926
• Haemaphlebia atripalpis Hampson, 1910
• Hamodes simplicia Weymer, 1892
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliophisma catocalina Holland, 1894
• Heliophisma klugii (Boisduval, 1833)
• Heraclia aemulatrix (Westwood, 1881)
• Heraclia longipennis (Walker, 1854)
• Heraclia medeba (Druce, 1880)
• Heraclia pallida (Walker, 1854)
• Herpeperas atrapex Hampson, 1926
• Hollandia spurrelli Hampson, 1926
• Holocryptis albida Hampson, 1918
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Iambiodes incerta (Rothschild, 1913)
• Isadelphina lacteifascia Hampson, 1926
• Leucania metasarca (Hampson, 1907)
• Libystica crenata Hampson, 1926
• Lobophyllodes miniatus (Grünberg, 1907)
• Lophiophora fulminans Bryk, 1915
• Lophodaxa labandina Hampson, 1926
• Lophoptera litigiosa (Boisduval, 1833)
• Lophoruza semiscripta (Mabille, 1893)
• Loxioda alternans Hampson, 1926
• Marathyssa cuneata (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Marcipa amaba Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa argyrosema Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa disrupta Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa endoselene Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa magniplaga Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa monosema Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa ruptisigna Hampson, 1926
• Marcipalina confluens (Hampson, 1926)
• Marcipalina melanoconia (Hampson, 1926)
• Masalia albiseriata (Druce, 1903)
• Masalia bimaculata (Moore, 1888)
• Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881)
• Masalia flaviceps (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia flavistrigata (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Masalia nubila (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia rubristria (Hampson, 1903)
• Massaga hesparia (Cramer, 1775)
• Massaga maritona Butler, 1868
• Massaga noncoba Kiriakoff, 1974
• Maxera euryptera Hampson, 1926
• Mazuca haemagrapha Hampson, 1910
• Mecodina apicia Hampson, 1926
• Mecodina nigripuncta Hampson, 1926
• Mecodopsis conisema Hampson, 1926
• Mesosciera typica Hampson, 1926
• Metagarista maenas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
• Metagarista triphaenoides Walker, 1854
• Micraxylia nyei Berio, 1964
• Mimasura miltochristodes Hampson, 1918
• Miniodes discolor Guenée, 1852
• Miniodes phaeosoma Hampson, 1913
• Mitrophrys magna (Walker, 1854)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
• Nagia homotona Hampson, 1926
• Nagia microsema Hampson, 1926
• Nagia monosema Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa annulisigna Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa atristipata Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa aulota Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa diagonalis Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa griselda Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa microsema Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa parallela Hampson, 1926
• Oglasa phaeonephele Hampson, 1926
• Oglasodes atrisignata Hampson, 1926
• Oglasodes bisinuata Hampson, 1926
• Ogovia aliena (Holland, 1920)
• Oligia hypothermes Hampson, 1908
• Ophiusa conspicienda (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa recurvata (Hampson, 1913)
• Ophiusa subdiversa (L. B. Prout, 1919)
• Oraesia cerne (Fawcett, 1916)
• Oruza divisa (Walker, 1862)
• Ozarba domina (Holland, 1894)
• Ozarba ochrozona Hampson, 1910
• Pangrapta elassa Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana flavilinea Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana incurvata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana monogona Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana nigripalpis Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana obliqua Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana sarcochroa Hampson, 1926
• Parallelura palumbiodes (Hampson, 1902)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• Phaegorista leucomelas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Phaegorista similis Walker, 1869
• Platyscia mesoscia Hampson, 1926
• Plusia microstigma Hampson, 1910
• Plusiodonta ionochrota Hampson, 1926
• Plusiophaes scotaea (Hampson, 1926)
• Polygrapta argyropasta Hampson, 1926
• Polytelodes florifera (Walker, 1858)
• Prolymnia viola Hampson, 1911
• Pseudoarcte melanis (Mabille, 1890)
• Pseudogiria hypographa (Hampson, 1926)
• Pseudomicrodes polysticta Hampson, 1910
• Rhynchina leucodonta Hampson, 1910
• Rivula erebina Hampson, 1926
• Rougeotiana xanthoperas (Hampson, 1926)
• Sarothroceras banaka (Plötz, 1880)
• Schausia gladiatoria (Holland, 1893)
• Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Strongylosia semiflava Hampson, 1926
• Sypnoides equatorialis (Holland, 1894)
• Taviodes discomma Hampson, 1926
• Thiacidas berenice (Fawcett, 1916)
• Thiacidas schausi (Hampson, 1905)
• Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thyas metaphaea (Hampson, 1913)
• Thyas parallelipipeda (Guenée, 1852)
• Thyas rubricata (Holland, 1894)
• Toana craspedica Hampson, 1910
• Tolna macrosema Hampson, 1913
• Tolna sypnoides (Butler, 1878)
• Trachea euryscia Hampson, 1918
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
• Tuerta chrysochlora Walker, 1869
• Ugiodes cinerea Hampson, 1926
• Zethesides pusilla Hampson, 1926

Nolidae

• Aiteta paralella Hampson, 1912
• Bryophilopsis anomoiota (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Bryophilopsis cometes Hampson, 1912
• Chlorozada endophaea Hampson, 1912
• Chlorozada pyrites Hampson, 1912
• Earias ogovana Holland, 1893
• Giaura plumbeofusa Hampson, 1920
• Gigantoceras rectilinea Hampson, 1912
• Gigantoceras solstitialis Holland, 1893
• Iscadia glaucograpta (Hampson, 1912)
• Leocyma camilla (Druce, 1887)
• Leocyma discophora Hampson, 1912
• Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912
• Metaleptina albibasis Holland, 1893
• Metaleptina obliterata Holland, 1893
• Microzada anaemica Hampson, 1912
• Negeta mesoleuca (Holland, 1894)
• Negeta molybdota Hampson, 1912
• Negeta purpurascens Hampson, 1912
• Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918
• Neonegeta atriflava Hampson, 1912
• Neonegeta pollusca (Schaus, 1893)
• Neonegeta purpurea Hampson, 1912
• Nola apicalis (Hampson, 1903)
• Nola argyropasta (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola chionea Hampson, 1911
• Nola cretaceoides Poole, 1989
• Nola endoscota Hampson, 1914
• Nola foviferoides Poole, 1989
• Nola melalopha (Hampson, 1900)
• Nola melanoscelis (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola mesonephele (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola mesothermoides Poole, 1989
• Nola microlopha (Hampson, 1900)
• Nola phaeocraspis (Hampson, 1909)
• Nola tornalis (Hampson, 1914)
• Odontestis cyphonota Hampson, 1912
• Odontestis prosticta (Holland, 1894)
• Pardasena lativia Hampson, 1912
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• Periplusia nubilicosta Holland, 1894
• Petrinia lignosa Walker, 1869
• Selepa cumasia Hampson, 1912
• Westermannia cuprea Hampson, 1905

Notodontidae

• Afropteryx angulata (Gaede, 1928)
• Amphiphalera leuconephra Hampson, 1910
• Andocidia tabernaria Kiriakoff, 1958
• Antheua amphiaraus (Kiriakoff, 1955)
• Antheua delicata Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Antheua elongata Gaede, 1928
• Antheua extenuata Walker, 1869
• Antheua ruficosta (Hampson, 1910)
• Antheua trifasciata (Hampson, 1909)
• Antheua vittata (Walker, 1855)
• Arciera nigripuncta (Rothschild, 1917)
• Arciera sexpunctata Kiriakoff, 1979
• Bisolita minuta (Holland, 1893)
• Brachychira excellens (Rothschild, 1917)
• Catarctia terminipuncta Hampson, 1910
• Daulopaectes trichosa (Hampson, 1910)
• Desmeocraera aquamarina Kiriakoff, 1958
• Desmeocraera bitioides (Holland, 1893)
• Desmeocraera confluens Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera leucophaea Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera sagittata Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera sincera Kiriakoff, 1958
• Desmeocraerula pallida Kiriakoff, 1963
• Enomotarcha chloana (Holland, 1893)
• Epanaphe parva (Aurivillius, 1891)
• Epicerura pulverulenta (Hampson, 1910)
• Eurystauridia triangularis (Gaede, 1928)
• Lamoriodes metaphaea Hampson, 1910
• Macronadata collaris Möschler, 1887
• Odontoperas aureomixta Kiriakoff, 1959
• Paradiastema pulverea Hampson, 1910
• Polienus rubritincta (Hampson, 1910)
• Psalisodes leuca (Hampson, 1910)
• Scalmicauda evadne Kiriakoff, 1979
• Scalmicauda melasema Kiriakoff, 1959
• Scalmicauda molestula Kiriakoff, 1959
• Scalmicauda terminalis Kiriakoff, 1959
• Scrancia atrifasciata Gaede, 1928
• Scrancia lactea Gaede, 1928
• Scranciola habilis Kiriakoff, 1965
• Synete argentescens (Hampson, 1910)
• Synete subarcuata Kiriakoff, 1979
• Trabanta rufisquamata (Hampson, 1910)
• Xanthodonta isabellina Kiriakoff, 1979
• Xanthodonta minima (Hampson, 1910)

Psychidae

• Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
• Eumeta rougeoti Bourgogne, 1955

Pterophoridae

• Exelastis ebalensis (Rebel, 1907)
• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
• Pterophorus spissa (Bigot, 1969)
• Walsinghamiella eques (Walsingham, 1891)
• Xyroptila africana Bigot, 1969

Pyralidae

• Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865
• Ematheudes straminella Snellen, 1872
• Endotricha consobrinalis Zeller, 1852
• Endotricha vinolentalis Ragonot, 1891
• Gauna pyralodes (Hampson, 1916)
• Lepidogma melanospila Hampson, 1916
• Macalla olivaris Hampson, 1916
• Perula apicalis (Hampson, 1916)
• Rhynchopaschia virescens Hampson, 1916
• Triphassa flavifrons (Warren, 1892)

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
• Bunaeopsis macrophthalma (Kirby, 1881)
• Carnegia mirabilis (Aurivillius, 1895)
• Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)
• Epiphora lineata (Bouvier, 1930)
• Epiphora vacuna (Westwood, 1849)
• Gonimbrasia occidentalis Rothschild, 1907
• Goodia hierax Jordan, 1922
• Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Lobobunaea melanoneura (Rothschild, 1907)
• Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
• Ludia obscura Aurivillius, 1893
• Micragone nubifera Bouvier, 1936
• Nudaurelia dione (Fabricius, 1793)
• Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
• Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)
• Nudaurelia xanthomma (Rothschild, 1907)
• Orthogonioptilum brunneum Jordan, 1922
• Orthogonioptilum deletum Jordan, 1922
• Orthogonioptilum prox Karsch, 1892
• Orthogonioptilum vestigiata (Holland, 1893)
• Pseudantheraea discrepans (Butler, 1878)

Sesiidae

• Barbasphecia ares Pühringer & Sáfián, 2011
• Barbasphecia hephaistos Pühringer & Sáfián, 2011
• Episannina albifrons (Hampson, 1910)
• Episannina flavicincta Hampson, 1919
• Melittia chalconota Hampson, 1910
• Sphecosesia brachyptera Hampson, 1919
• Synanthedon auripes (Hampson, 1910)
• Synanthedon exochiformis (Walker, 1856)
• Synanthedon flavipectus (Hampson, 1910)

Sphingidae

• Antinephele anomala (Butler, 1882)
• Antinephele muscosa Holland, 1889
• Chloroclanis virescens (Butler, 1882)
• Falcatula cymatodes (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
• Hippotion aporodes Rothschild & Jordan, 1912
• Hypaedalea butleri Rothschild, 1894
• Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891
• Lophostethus dumolinii (Angas, 1849)
• Neopolyptychus ancylus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1916)
• Neopolyptychus spurrelli (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
• Nephele discifera Karsch, 1891
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Phylloxiphia bicolor (Rothschild, 1894)
• Phylloxiphia illustris (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906)
• Platysphinx constrigilis (Walker, 1869)
• Platysphinx phyllis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Platysphinx stigmatica (Mabille, 1878)
• Platysphinx vicaria Jordan, 1920
• Polyptychus andosa Walker, 1856
• Polyptychus carteri (Butler, 1882)
• Polyptychus hollandi Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Polyptychus lapidatus Joicey & Kaye, 1917
• Polyptychus murinus Rothschild, 1904
• Polyptychus orthographus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Polyptychus paupercula (Holland, 1889)
• Polyptychus retusus Rothschild & Jordan, 1908
• Pseudopolyptychus foliaceus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Temnora iapygoides (Holland, 1889)
• Theretra jugurtha (Boisduval, 1875)
• Theretra perkeo Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Thyrididae

• Banisia fuliginea (Whalley, 1971)
• Banisia inoptata (Whalley, 1971)
• Byblisia setipes (Plötz, 1880)
• Cecidothyris chrysotherma (Hampson, 1914)
• Cecidothyris tyrannica Whalley, 1971
• Dysodia vitrina (Boisduval, 1829)
• Epaena candida Whalley, 1971
• Heteroschista nigranalis Warren, 1903
• Marmax hyparchus (Cramer, 1779)
• Marmax vicaria (Walker, 1854)
• Nemea eugrapha (Hampson, 1906)
• Ninia plumipes (Drury, 1782)
• Opula perigrapha (Hampson, 1914)
• Rhodoneura sordidula (Plötz, 1880)
• Striglina clathrata (Hampson, 1897)

Tineidae

• Acridotarsa melipecta (Meyrick, 1915)
• Afrocelestis sacculata Gozmány, 1968
• Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Edosa endroedyi (Gozmány, 1966)
• Erechthias travestita (Gozmány, 1968)
• Hyperbola pastoralis (Meyrick, 1931)
• Monopis addenda Gozmány, 1965
• Monopis immaculata Gozmány, 1967
• Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
• Monopis ministrans Gozmány, 1968
• Monopis rejectella (Walker, 1864)
• Morophaga soror Gozmány, 1965
• Organodesma leucomicra (Gozmány, 1966)
• Perissomastix sericea Gozmány, 1966
• Perissomastix stibarodes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Perissomastix styx Gozmány, 1966
• Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973
• Phereoeca proletaria (Meyrick, 1921)
• Phthoropoea oenochares (Meyrick, 1920)
• Silosca licziae Gozmány, 1967
• Sphallestasis spinifurca (Gozmány, 1969)
• Syncalipsis optania (Meyrick, 1908)
• Syncalipsis scotochrysis Gozmány, 1969
• Syncalipsis typhodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Tiquadra cultrifera Meyrick, 1914
• Tiquadra goochii Walsingham, 1881

Tortricidae

• Accra viridis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Afroploce karsholti Aarvik, 2004
• Bactra aletha Diakonoff, 1963
• Coccothera ferrifracta Diakonoff, 1968
• Cydia taocosma (Meyrick, 1914)
• Eccopsis incultana (Walker, 1863)
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• Eupoecilia aburica Razowski, 1993
• Olethreutes molybdachtha (Meyrick, 1930)
• Tortrix dinota Meyrick, 1918
• Xeneboda kumasiana Razowski & Tuck, 2000

Uraniidae

• Acropteris costinigrata Warren, 1897

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852

External links

• Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . amp . 2017 . Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera) . Afromoths.