List of moths of Chad

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.