List of moths of Mauritania

Location of Mauritania

Moths of Mauritania represent about 165 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 Mauritania.

Arctiidae[]

• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cossidae[]

• Durrant, 1916

Crambidae[]

• Filodes costivitralis Guenée, 1862

Lasiocampidae[]

• Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009

Noctuidae[]

• Dufay, 1958
• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
• Oberthür, 1887
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• (Walker, 1857)
• Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
• Wallengren, 1856
• Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Agrotis herzogi Rebel, 1911
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Wiltshire, 1994
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Hampson, 1910
• (Staudinger, 1870)
• Anumeta spilota (Erschoff, 1874)
• Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
• (Hampson, 1909)
• Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
• (Laporte, 1972)
• Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
• Attatha metaleuca Hampson, 1913
• Audea kathrina Kühne, 2005
• Audea melaleuca Walker, 1865
• Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
• (de Joannis, 1909)
• Hampson, 1926
• Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)
• Holland, 1892
• Calophasia platyptera (Esper, [1788])
• Cardepia affinis Rothschild, 1913
• Cardepia sociabilis de Graslin, 1850
• Berio, 1966
• Karsch, 1896
• Chalciope pusilla (Holland, 1894)
• (Guenée, 1852)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Clytie infrequens (Swinhoe, 1884)
• Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900)
• Rungs, 1975
• Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
• Condica viscosa (Freyer, 1831)
• Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
• Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
• Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma magus (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
• (Rothschild, 1901)
• Drasteria kabylaria (Bang-Haas, 1906)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Eublemma baccalix (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Hampson, 1896
• (Rothschild, 1901)
• Eublemma parva (Hübner, [1808])
• (Freyer, 1844)
• Berio, 1969
• (Rambur, 1833)
• Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
• Eublemmoides apicimacula (Mabille, 1880)
• Hampson, 1902
• Gesonia obeditalis Walker, 1859
• Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
• Grammodes congenita Walker, 1858
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Aurivillius, 1910
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• (Mabille, 1890)
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• (Fabricius, 1794)
• Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Berio, 1966
• Leoniloma convergens Hampson, 1926
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• (Saalmüller, 1891)
• (Druce, 1903)
• (Moore, 1888)
• Masalia nubila (Hampson, 1903)
• (Hampson, 1903)
• (Walker, 1858)
• (Wallengren, 1856)
• (Moore, 1881)
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• (Walker, 1854)
• Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
• (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
• (Krüger, 1939)
• Hampson, 1910
• Berio, 1963
• Berio, 1940
• Pandesma muricolor Berio, 1966
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• (Holland, 1894)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma metaleuca Hampson, 1913
• (Wallengren, 1860)
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• (Walker, 1858)
• Hampson, 1926
• (Herrich-Schäffer, 1950)
• Rhabdophera arefacta (Swinhoe, 1884)
• (Guenée, 1852)
• (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Hampson, 1910
• Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Tachosa fumata (Wallengren, 1860)
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Tytroca leucoptera (Hampson, 1896)
• Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902)
• Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902)

Nolidae[]

• (Hampson, 1902)
• Mabille, 1900
• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• Guenée, 1852
• Agassiz, 2009
• (Hampson, 1905)
• (Walker, 1858)
• Hampson, 1912
• Hampson, 1912
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• (Fabricius, 1794)
• (Pinhey, 1968)

Pterophoridae[]

• Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)

Pyralidae[]

• Hypotia numidalis Hampson, 1900)

Tineidae[]

• Anomalotinea cubiculella (Staudinger, 1859)
• (de Joannis, 1897)
• (Rebel, 1901)
• Rebel, 1901
• (Petersen, 1957)
• (Rebel, 1901)
• (Rebel, 1901)
• (Ragonot, 1892)

Tortricidae[]

• Kennel, 1921

References[]

External links[]

• AfroMoths