List of moths of Botswana

Botswana moths represent about 115 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 Botswana.

Arctiidae[]

• Acantharctia vittata Aurivillius, 1900
• Metarctia lateritia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)
• Paralacydes destrictus Kühne, 2010
• Paralacydes jeskei (Grünberg, 1911)
• Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, 1865)

Cossidae[]

• Aethalopteryx atrireta (Hampson, 1910)

Crambidae[]

• Ischnurges lancinalis (Guenée, 1854)

Geometridae[]

• (Prout, 1925)
• (Prout, 1917)
• (Guenée, 1858)
• (Warren, 1898)
• (Walker, 1861)
• (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Prout, 1922
• Prout, 1925
• Warren, 1914
• Prout, 1922
• Warren, 1895
• (Prout, 1915)

Gracillariidae[]

• Phyllonorycter anchistea (Vári, 1961)
• Phyllonorycter grewiella (Vári, 1961)

Lasiocampidae[]

• Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009

Limacodidae[]

• Butler, 1880

Lymantriidae[]

• (Swinhoe, 1903)

Metarbelidae[]

• Arbelodes sebelensis Lehmann, 2010
• Kroonia fumealis (Janse, 1925)

Noctuidae[]

• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Walker, 1862
• Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• (Hampson, 1902)
• (Aurivillius, 1879)
• Hopffer, 1857
• (Walker, [1858])
• Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia gratiosa Wallengren, 1856
• (Walker, 1857)
• (Hampson, 1910)
• (Guenée, 1852)
• (Butler, 1898)
• Wallengren, 1860
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Aurivillius, 1879
• Wallengren, 1856
• Adisura straminea Hampson, 1902
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Hampson, 1909
• (Möschler, 1883)
• Audea humeralis Hampson, 1902
• Audea melanoplaga Hampson, 1902
• (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Cerocala vermiculosa Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
• (Boisduval, 1833)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Hampson, 1910
• Ctenusa pallida (Hampson, 1902)
• Ctenusa varians (Wallengren, 1863)
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Eublemma rivula (Moore, 1882)
• Euphiusa harmonica (Hampson, 1902)
• Hampson, 1902
• (Laporte, 1979)
• Grammodes geometrica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• (Walker, 1865)
• Hypopyra carneotincta (Hampson, 1913)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Masalia leucosticta (Hampson, 1902)
• (Hampson, 1902)
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Hampson, 1910
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Pericyma atrifusa (Hampson, 1902)
• (Wallengren, 1860)
• (Grünberg, 1910)
• (Fawcett, 1917)
• Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902)
• Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902)

Nolidae[]

• Guenée, 1852
• (Wallengren, 1863)
• (Wallengren, 1860)
• (Walker, 1858)
• Hampson, 1912

Notodontidae[]

• (Distant, 1902)

Pterophoridae[]

• Agdistis clara Arenberger, 1986

Pyralidae[]

• Pempelia morosalis (Saalmüller, 1880)

Saturniidae[]

• (Dewitz, 1881)
• (Westwood, 1849)
• Gynanisa maja (Klug, 1836)
• (Rogenhofer, 1891)
• Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Boisduval, 1847)

Sesiidae[]

• Anaudia felderi Wallengren, 1863

Sphingidae[]

• Polyptychoides grayii (Walker, 1856)
• Praedora leucophaea Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Rufoclanis numosae (Wallengren, 1860)
• Xenosphingia jansei Jordan, 1920

Thyrididae[]

• Arniocera erythropyga (Wallengren, 1860)

Tineidae[]

• (Meyrick, 1917)
• Meyrick, 1918

Tortricidae[]

• (Meyrick, 1920)

Xyloryctidae[]

• Meyrick, 1933

References[]

External links[]

• AfroMoths