List of moths of Togo

Location of Togo

The moths of Togo represent about 180 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 Togo.

Anomoeotidae[]

Anomoeotes tenellula Holland, 1893

Arctiidae[]

Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855)
Agylloides asurella Strand, 1912
Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
Amata waldowi (Grünberg, 1907)
Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910)
Amphicallia pactolicus (Butler, 1888)
Amsacta flavicostata (Gaede, 1916)
Amsacta fuscosa (Bartel, 1903)
Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
Asura craigii (Holland, 1893)
Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901)
Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
Cyana togoana (Strand, 1912)
Eilema cuneata Strand, 1912
Eilema pulverosa Aurivillius, 1904
Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880)
Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
(Strand, 1909)
Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880)
Pusiola hemiphaea (Hampson, 1909)
Spilosoma karschi Bartel, 1903
Spilosoma semihyalina Bartel, 1903
Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903
Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, 1865)
Thyretes negus Oberthür, 1878
Zobida trinitas (Strand, 1912)

Cossidae[]

Phragmataecia pelostema (Hering, 1923)

Crambidae[]

Protinopalpa ferreoflava Strand, 1911

Drepanidae[]

(Bryk, 1913)
Uranometra oculata (Holland, 1893)

Geometridae[]

(Walker, 1862)
(Holland, 1893)
(Holland, 1893)
(Prout, 1932)
D. S. Fletcher, 1974
Herbulot, 1975
Herbulot, 1954
Mabille, 1900
D. S. Fletcher, 1974
Warren, 1909
D. S. Fletcher, 1974
Prout, 1928
Prout, 1932
Oberthür, 1912
D. S. Fletcher, 1974
Warren, 1897
D. S. Fletcher, 1974
Prout, 1932

Lasiocampidae[]

(Gaede, 1915)
Hering, 1935
Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
Aurivillius, 1905
(Walker, 1855)
(Hering, 1928)
(Hering, 1928)
Aurivillius, 1905
(Bethune-Baker, 1911)
(Strand, 1912)

Limacodidae[]

Walker, 1855
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
(Hering, 1928)
(Karsch, 1896)
(Karsch, 1896)
(Karsch, 1896)
(Felder, 1874)
(Felder, 1874)
(Karsch, 1896)
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1896
Karsch, 1895
Karsch, 1896
Schaus & Clements, 1893

Lymantriidae[]

Hampson, 1910
Barobata trocta Karsch, 1895
(Hampson, 1910)
(Hering, 1926)
Hering, 1926
Holland, 1893
(Karsch, 1898)
Hering, 1926
Hering, 1926
(Karsch, 1895)
Holland, 1893
Dewitz, 1881
Karsch, 1895
Hampson, 1905
Holland, 1893
Hampson, 1905
Hering, 1926
(Plötz, 1880)
Walker, 1855
(Hering, 1926)
(Möschler, 1887)
(Hering, 1926)
(Holland, 1893)
(Hering, 1926)

Metarbelidae[]

Haberlandia togoensis Lehmann, 2011
Lebedodes bassa (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
Metarbela fumida Karsch, 1896
Metarbela micra Karsch, 1896
Metarbela onusta Karsch, 1896
Moyencharia ochreicosta (Gaede, 1929)
Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
Teragra insignifica Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae[]

(Hampson, 1918)
Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
(Butler, 1898)
Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
Mabille, 1893
Agoma trimenii (Felder, 1874)
(Walker, 1869)
Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
Hampson, 1926
Karsch, 1896
Digama aganais (Felder, 1874)
Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
(Karsch, 1895)
(Hampson, 1903)
Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
Karsch, 1898
Karsch, 1895
(Holland, 1894)
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
Phaegorista similis Walker, 1869
Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Hacker & Zilli, 2007

Nolidae[]

Gaede, 1915

Notodontidae[]

(Hampson, 1910)
(Hampson, 1910)
(Gaede, 1928)
Karsch, 1895
Butler, 1893
Anaphe venata Butler, 1878
(Hampson, 1910)
(Gaede, 1915)
(Karsch, 1895)
Walker, 1855
(Holland, 1893)
(Aurivillius, 1906)
Gaede, 1928
Distant, 1897
(Bethune-Baker, 1911)
Karsch, 1895
(Hampson, 1910)
(Grünberg, 1907)
(Walker, 1865)
Hampson, 1910
(Aurivillius, 1904)
(Schaus, 1893)

Psychidae[]

Karsch, 1900

Pyralidae[]

Acracona remipedalis (Karsch, 1900)

Saturniidae[]

(Westwood, 1849)
(Westwood, 1849)
(Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
Imbrasia epimethea (Drury, 1772)
(Sharpe, 1889)
Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
(Westwood, 1849)
Bouyer, 2008
Westwood, 1849
(Butler, 1888)
Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)

Sesiidae[]

Albuna africana Le Cerf, 1917

Sphingidae[]

Temnora radiata (Karsch, 1892)

Thyrididae[]

(Plötz, 1880)
Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
Karsch, 1900
(Cramer, 1779)
(Walker, 1854)
(Plötz, 1880)

Tortricidae[]

Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)

Zygaenidae[]

Walker, 1864
(Fabricius, 1775)
(Plötz, 1880)

References[]

External links[]

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

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