List of moths of Sudan and South Sudan

There are about 350 known moth species of Sudan and South Sudan. 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 Sudan and South Sudan.

Arctiidae[]

• Acantharctia metaleuca Hampson, 1901
• Afrowatsonius fulvomarginalis (Wichgraf, 1921)
• Afrowatsonius sudanicus (Rothschild, 1933)
• Aloa moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Alpenus nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Alpenus schraderi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Alpenus wichgrafi Watson, 1988
• Amata shoa (Hampson, 1898)
• Amata tomasina (Butler, 1876)
• Amsacta latimarginalis Rothschild, 1933
• Caripodia chrysargyria Hampson, 1900
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Creatonotos punctivitta (Walker, 1854)
• Metarctia pumila Hampson, 1909
• Oedaleosia concolor Strand, 1912
• Paralacydes arborifera (Butler, 1875)
• Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma metaleuca (Hampson, 1905)

Autostichidae[]

• Turatia scioneura (Meyrick, 1929)

Coleophoridae[]

• Coleophora aularia Meyrick, 1924
• Coleophora sudanella Rebel, 1916

Cosmopterigidae[]

• Bifascioides leucomelanella (Rebel, 1917)
• Gisilia sclerodes (Meyrick, 1909)

Cossidae[]

• Meharia semilactea (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Durrant, 1916
• Paropta henleyi (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Phragmatoecioides pectinicornis Strand, 1915

Crambidae[]

• Cataclysta leroii Strand, 1915
• Charltona albidalis Hampson, 1919
• Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Cornifrons ulceratalis Lederer, 1858
• Crambus diarhabdellus Hampson, 1919
• Crambus sudanicola Strand, 1915
• Culladia achroellum (Mabille, 1900)
• Cybalomia pentadalis Lederer, 1855
• Cybalomia simplex Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Diplopseustis perieresalis (Walker, 1859)
• Elethyia albirufalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Euchromius cambridgei (Zeller, 1867)
• Euchromius ocellea (Haworth, 1811)
• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
• Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Platytes impar Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Prionapteryx alternalis Maes, 2002
• Prionapteryx soudanensis (Hampson, 1919)
• Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli, 1763)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Elachistidae[]

• Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)

Gelechiidae[]

• Ochrodia subdiminutella (Stainton, 1867)
• Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844)
• Scrobipalpa ergasima (Meyrick, 1916)

Geometridae[]

• Acidaliastis micra Hampson, 1896
• Prout, 1915
• Prout, 1915
• (Prout, 1926)
• (Warren, 1899)
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• D. S. Fletcher, 1967
• (Prout, 1913)
• (Swinhoe, 1904)
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Staudinger, 1900
• Isturgia disputaria (Guenée, 1858)
• (Guenée, 1858)
• Warren, 1897
• (Warren, 1899)
• (Prout, 1934)
• (Thunberg, 1784)
• Pseudosterrha paulula (Swinhoe, 1886)
• (Hampson, 1896)
• Scopula adelpharia (Püngeler, 1894)
• Scopula natalica (Butler, 1875)
• Scopula pseudophema Prout, 1920
• (Wallengren, 1863)
• Prout, 1922
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Swinhoe, 1895
• Warren, 1897
• (Guenée, 1858)
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Gracillariidae[]

• Acrocercops bifasciata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
• Stomphastis conflua (Meyrick, 1914)

Lasiocampidae[]

• (Klug, 1830)
• Pagenstecher, 1903
• Beralade obliquata (Klug, 1830)
• (Aurivillius, 1925)
• Tams, 1938
• Aurivillius, 1905
• (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
• Streblote diluta (Aurivillius, 1905)

Limacodidae[]

• Karsch, 1896
• Hampson, 1910
• Berio, 1937
• Hering, 1928

Lymantriidae[]

• Walker, 1855
• (Holland, 1893)
• Strand, 1915
• (Hampson, 1910)
• Hering, 1926
• Hampson, 1910

Metarbelidae[]

• Moyencharia winteri Lehmann, 2013

Nepticulidae[]

• Stigmella xystodes (Meyrick, 1916)

Noctuidae[]

• Dufay, 1958
• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
• Achaea phaeobasis Hampson, 1913
• Walker, 1857
• (Rothschild, 1921)
• (Hampson, 1914)
• Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Swinhoe, 1884
• (Walker, 1857)
• Swinhoe, 1889
• Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
• Hampson, 1910
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• (Staudinger, 1870)
• Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
• Audea humeralis Hampson, 1902
• Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
• (de Joannis, 1909)
• Wiltshire, 1977
• Hampson, 1913
• Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
• Karsch, 1896
• Hampson, 1910
• Strand, 1915
• Clytie infrequens (Swinhoe, 1884)
• Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900)
• Rungs, 1975
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
• Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
• Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• (Rothschild, 1901)
• Berio, 1955
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• (Rothschild, 1901)
• (Wiltshire, 1970)
• Eublemma parva (Hübner, [1808])
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• (Freyer, 1844)
• Berio, 1969
• (Rambur, 1833)
• Wiltshire, 1977
• Gesonia obeditalis Walker, 1859
• Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
• Grammodes geometrica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• Heliothis viriplaca (Hufnagel, 1766)
• (Karsch, 1895)
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• (Mabille, 1890)
• Heteropalpia profesta (Christoph, 1887)
• (Rebel, 1907)
• (Walker, 1865)
• Hiccoda dosaroides Moore, 1882
• Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, [1813])
• Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
• Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
• (Rothschild, 1913)
• Wiltshire, 1977
• Leucania melanostrotoides (Strand, 1915)
• Strand, 1915
• (Druce, 1903)
• (Moore, 1888)
• Seymour, 1972
• Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881)
• (Hampson, 1903)
• (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• (Rothschild, 1921)
• (Walker, 1865)
• (Moore, 1881)
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Swinhoe, 1884
• Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)
• (Krüger, 1939)
• (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Berio, 1940
• (Hampson, 1902)
• Hampson, 1910
• Pandesma quenavadi Guenée, 1852
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• (Wallengren, 1860)
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Hampson, 1926
• (Herrich-Schäffer, 1950)
• Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Hampson, 1916
• Kiriakoff, 1974
• Sesamia cretica Lederer, 1857
• Hampson, 1902
• (Strand, 1915)
• Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
• (Stoll, 1790)
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Syngrapha circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Pinhey, 1956
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
• Tytroca fasciolata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Ulotrichopus stertzi (Püngeler, 1907)
• Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902)
• Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)

Nolidae[]

• (Hampson, 1902)
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• (Strand, 1915)
• (Hampson, 1905)
• Butler, 1881

Notodontidae[]

• (Karsch, 1895)
• (Snellen, 1872)
• Gaede, 1928
• (Rothschild, 1917)
• (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Kiriakoff, 1961
• Strand, 1915

Plutellidae[]

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Psychidae[]

• (Rebel, 1917)
• Rebel, 1907

Pterophoridae[]

• Agdistis arabica Amsel, 1958
• Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)

Pyralidae[]

• (Rothschild, 1901)
• Aglossa aglossalis (Ragonot, 1892)
• Ancylosis costistrigella (Ragonot, 1890)
• Ancylosis faustinella (Zeller, 1867)
• Ancylosis lacteicostella (Ragonot, 1887)
• (Chrétien, 1911)
• Ancylosis nubeculella (Ragonot, 1887)
• Anerastia lotella (Hübner, 1813)
• Arenipses sabella Hampson, 1901
• Cadra calidella (Guenée, 1845)
• Cadra figulilella (Gregson, 1871)
• Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
• Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839)
• Endotricha consobrinalis Zeller, 1852
• Epicrocis ferrealis (Hampson, 1898)
• Epischnia cinerosalis Walker & Rothschild, 1905
• Epischnia masticella Ragonot, 1893
• Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Exodesis vaterfieldi Hampson, 1919
• Gymnancyla canella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Lorymana noctuiformis Strand, 1915
• Hampson, 1896
• Polyocha anerastiodes Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Strand, 1915
• Pyralis obsoletalis Mann, 1864
• Raphimetopus ablutella (Zeller, 1839)
• (Ragonot, 1888)
• Staudingeria yerburii (Butler, 1884)
• Zophodia straminea Strand, 1915

Saturniidae[]

• Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
• (Westwood, 1849)
• (Druce, 1886)
• (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Grünberg, 1909
• (Weymer, 1880)
• (Westwood, 1849)
• (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Stoneham, 1962

Sesiidae[]

• Melittia ruficincta (Felder, 1874)

Sphingidae[]

• Ceridia heuglini (C. & R. Felder, 1874)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion rebeli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)
• Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891
• Neopolyptychus consimilis (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Polyptychoides grayii (Walker, 1856)
• Polyptychoides niloticus (Jordan, 1921)
• Pseudoclanis abyssinicus (Lucas, 1857)
• Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)

Thyrididae[]

• Felder, 1874

Tineidae[]

• (Meyrick, 1917)
• Ceratophaga vastella (Zeller, 1852)
• (Gozmány, 1965)
• Meyrick, 1920
• Gozmány, 1965
• Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Gozmány, 1965
• (Walsingham, 1896)
• Philagraulella punica (Meyrick, 1930)
• (Gozmány, 1967)
• Gozmány, 1965
• Staudinger, 1859
• Trichophaga abruptella (Wollaston, 1858)

Tortricidae[]

• Bactra bactrana (Kennel, 1901)
• Meyrick, 1911
• Bactra tornastis Meyrick, 1909
• Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
• Meyrick, 1930
• (Meyrick, 1924)
• (Meyrick, 1928)

Xyloryctidae[]

• Scythris amplexella Bengtsson, 2002
• Walsingham, 1907
• Scythris fissurella Bengtsson, 1997
• Meyrick, 1924
• Meyrick, 1933

Zygaenidae[]

• (Koch, 1865)

References[]

External links[]

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