Location of Ghana

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

References

External links

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