List of moths of Chad
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Location of Chad
There are about 50 known moth species in Chad. 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 Chad.
Arctiidae[]
- Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
- Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892
Coleophoridae[]
- Nasamonica oxymorpha Meyrick, 1922
Geometridae[]
- Herbulot, 1965
- Prout, 1915
- (Hampson, 1896)
- Guenée, 1858
- Swinhoe, 1895
Lasiocampidae[]
- (Tams, 1925)
Metarbelidae[]
- Moyencharia mineti Lehmann, 2013
- Salagena cuprea Gaede, 1929
Noctuidae[]
- Boisduval, 1836
- Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
- Herbulot & Viette, 1952
- Cardepia sociabilis de Graslin, 1850
- Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900)
- Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
- (Rothschild, 1901)
- (Rambur, 1833)
- Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
- Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
- Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
- Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
- Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
- Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
- Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
- (Krüger, 1939)
- Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
- Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
- Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
- Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
- Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Nolidae[]
- Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
Notodontidae[]
- (Holland, 1893)
Pterophoridae[]
- Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
- Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
- Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
- Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
- Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
- Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Saturniidae[]
- Rougeot, 1977
- (Westwood, 1849)
- (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
- Jordan, 1922
- Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
- (Weymer, 1896)
Sphingidae[]
- Neopolyptychus prionites (Rothschild & Jordan, 1916)
References[]
External links[]
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)". Afromoths.
Categories:
- Insects of Chad
- Lists of biota of Chad
- Moths of Africa
- Lists of moths by country