Location of Senegal

Moths of Senegal represent about 190 known moth species. 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 Senegal.

Arctiidae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

Drepanidae

Geometridae

  • Erastria albosignata (Walker, 1863)
  • Euproutia aggravaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Idaea prionodonta (Prout, 1932)
  • Isturgia inaequivirgaria (Mabille, 1890)
  • Neromia propinquilinea Prout, 1920
  • Orbamia octomaculata (Wallengren, 1872)
  • Orbamia renimacula (Prout, 1926)
  • Scopula paradelpharia Prout, 1920
  • Thalassodes albifimbria Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada acrochra Prout, 1928
  • Zamarada anacantha D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada crystallophana Mabille, 1900
  • Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
  • Zamarada emaciata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
  • Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
  • Zygophyxia relictata (Walker, 1866)

Gracillariidae

Lasiocampidae

  • Beralade bistrigata Strand, 1909
  • Chrysopsyche imparilis Aurivillius, 1905
  • Euphorea ondulosa (Conte, 1909)
  • Lasiocampa bilineata (Mabille, 1884)
  • Leipoxais proboscidea (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Mimopacha rotundata Hering, 1941
  • Pallastica meloui (Riel, 1909)
  • Streblote bakeri (Riel, 1911)
  • Theophasida cardinalli (Tams, 1926)

Lecithoceridae

Limacodidae

  • Latoia colini Mabille, 1881
  • Latoia privativa Hering, 1928

Lymantriidae

Metarbelidae

Noctuidae

  • Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
  • Acantholipes semiaurea Berio, 1966
  • Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
  • Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
  • Acontia buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
  • Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
  • Acontia fastrei Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
  • Acontia hampsoni Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
  • Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
  • Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
  • Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)
  • Acontia stassarti Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
  • Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
  • Acontia wahlbergi Wallengren, 1856
  • Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
  • Agoma trimenii (Felder, 1874)
  • Amazonides tabida (Guenée, 1852)
  • Aspidifrontia hemileuca (Hampson, 1909)
  • Aspidifrontia senegalensis Berio, 1966
  • Aspidifrontia villiersi (Laporte, 1972)
  • Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
  • Brevipecten calimanii (Berio, 1939)
  • Calliodes appollina Guenée, 1852
  • Cerocala albicornis Berio, 1966
  • Chasmina tibialis (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Chasmina vestae (Guenée, 1852)
  • Clytie tropicalis Rungs, 1975
  • Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
  • Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
  • Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
  • Ctenusa pallida (Hampson, 1902)
  • Dysmilichia flavonigra (Swinhoe, 1884)
  • Euclidia limbosa Guenée, 1852
  • Gesonia nigripalpa Wiltshire, 1977
  • Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
  • Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
  • Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
  • Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
  • Iambia jansei Berio, 1966
  • Masalia albiseriata (Druce, 1903)
  • Masalia bimaculata (Moore, 1888)
  • Masalia cheesmanae Seymour, 1972
  • Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881)
  • Masalia flaviceps (Hampson, 1903)
  • Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
  • Masalia nubila (Hampson, 1903)
  • Masalia rubristria (Hampson, 1903)
  • Masalia terracottoides (Rothschild, 1921)
  • Matopo selecta (Walker, 1865)
  • Melanephia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)
  • Misa memnonia Karsch, 1895
  • Mitrophrys magna (Walker, 1854)
  • Mitrophrys menete (Cramer, 1775)
  • Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
  • Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)
  • Ozarba corniculantis Berio, 1947
  • Ozarba leptocyma Hampson, 1914
  • Ozarba rubrivena Hampson, 1910
  • Pandesma muricolor Berio, 1966
  • Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
  • Phaegorista agaristoides Boisduval, 1836
  • Phaegorista leucomelas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
  • Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
  • Rhabdophera clathrum (Guenée, 1852)
  • Rhabdophera hansali (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
  • Rhynchina leucodonta Hampson, 1910
  • Saalmuellerana media (Walker, 1857)
  • Schausia gladiatoria (Holland, 1893)
  • Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
  • Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas meii Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas mukim (Berio, 1977)
  • Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas submutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thyas parallelipipeda (Guenée, 1852)
  • Timora senegalensis (Guenée, 1852)

Nolidae

  • Blenina chloromelana (Mabille, 1890)

Notodontidae

  • Anaphe stellata Guérin-Méneville, 1844
  • Epanaphe vuilleti (de Joannis, 1907)

Psychidae

  • Eumeta rotunda Bourgogne, 1965
  • Melasina murifica Meyrick, 1922

Pyralidae

Saturniidae

  • Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Gonimbrasia occidentalis Rothschild, 1907
  • Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Imbrasia senegalensis (Olivier, 1792)
  • Micragone nenia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Micragone nenioides Rougeot, 1979
  • Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
  • Pseudobunaea irius (Fabricius, 1793)

Sesiidae

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

  • Amalthocera tiphys Boisduval, 1836

Tineidae

  • Agnathosia byrsinopa (Meyrick, 1933)
  • Ceratophaga tragoptila (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Endromarmata lutipalpis (Meyrick, 1922)
  • Hapsifera luteata Gozmány, 1965
  • Hapsifera niphoxantha Gozmány, 1965
  • Syncalipsis optania (Meyrick, 1908)

Tortricidae

References

    • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)". Afromoths.
    • African Moths
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