List of moths of Burundi

There are about 118 known moth species of Burundi. 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 Burundi.

Arctiidae[]

• Amata alicia (Butler, 1876)
• Apisa subargentea Joicey & Talbot, 1921
• Asura gigantea Kühne, 2007
• Asura mutabilis Kühne, 2007
• Balacra compsa (Jordan, 1904)
• Balacra rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Cragia adiastola (Kiriakoff, 1958)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900
• Metarctia lateritia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Nyctemera itokina (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Pseudothyretes kamitugensis (Dufrane, 1945)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Crambidae[]

• Diasemia lunalis Gaede, 1916
• Orphanostigma excisa (Martin, 1956)
• Psara cryptolepis (Martin, 1956)
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

Eupterotidae[]

• Jana fletcheri Berger, 1980
• Jana roseata Rothschild, 1917
• Janomima dannfelti (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Stenoglene obtusus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886)

Geometridae[]

• (D. S. Fletcher, 1958)
• D. S. Fletcher, 1967
• (Warren, 1898)
• (Herbulot, 1966)
• Pingasa distensaria (Walker, 1860)
• Prout, 1921
• Prout, 1915
• Prout, 1912
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• D. S. Fletcher, 1958
• Bastelberger, 1909
• Prout, 1912
• Bastelberger, 1909
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Lasiocampidae[]

• (Kruck, 1940)
• (Walker, 1865)
• (Walker, 1865)
• Aurivillius, 1909
• Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Wallengren, 1860
• Hering, 1928
• Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
• (Walker, 1855)
• (Tams, 1936)
• (Riel, 1909)
• (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• (Aurivillius, 1921)
• (Tams, 1936)

Lymantriidae[]

• (Collenette, 1938)
• Walker, 1855
• (Hampson, 1910)
• Collenette, 1937
• (Walker, 1857)
• (Fawcett, 1900)
• Dall'Asta, 1983
• Holland, 1893
• Collenette, 1933
• Aurivillius, 1925
• (Kirby, 1896)
• Swinhoe, 1903
• Aurivillius, 1904
• Jacksoniana striata (Collenette, 1937)
• (Collenette, 1931)
• Hampson, 1905
• Collenette, 1931
• (Distant, 1897)
• Distant, 1899
• Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Hampson, 1910
• Bethune-Baker, 1913
• (Plötz, 1880)
• Mylantria xanthospila (Plötz, 1880)
• (Holland, 1893)
• Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
• Collenette, 1937
• (Cramer, 1779)
• Hering, 1926
• (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
• Tamsita ochthoeba (Hampson, 1920)

Metarbelidae[]

• Mountelgonia urundiensis Lehmann, 2013

Noctuidae[]

• Guenée, 1852
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Aegocera fervida (Walker, 1854)
• Mabille, 1893
• Boisduval, 1836
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• (Berio, 1974)
• (Fabricius, 1781)
• (Hampson, 1901)
• (Butler, 1875)
• Walker, 1854
• (Cramer, 1775)
• Tuertella rema (Druce, 1910)

Nolidae[]

• (Walker, 1865)

Notodontidae[]

• (Karsch, 1895)
• (Gaede, 1928)
• Kiriakoff, 1969
• Kiriakoff, 1969
• Strand, 1909

Pterophoridae[]

• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)

Saturniidae[]

• Rougeot, 1978
• Bouyer, 1992
• Bouyer, 1989
• D. S. Fletcher, 1952
• Bouyer, 2008

Tineidae[]

• Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Gozmány, 1967

References[]

External links[]

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