List of moths of the Comoros

Moths of the Comoros represent about 320 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 on the Comoros and on Mayotte, which is geographically part of the Comoro Islands off the south-east coast of Africa.

Arctiidae[]

• Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880
• Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
• Chiromachla insulare (Boisduval, 1833)
• Chiromachla pallescens Oberthür, 1890
• Cyana tripuncta (Toulgoët, 1980)
• Rothschild, 1933
• Rothschild, 1933
• Eilema catenata (Mabille, 1900)
• Eilema comorensis Toulgoët, 1955
• Eilema humbloti Toulgoët, 1956
• Eilema kingdoni (Butler, 1877)
• Euchromia folletii (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Exilisia insularis Tougoët, 1972
• Exilisia leighi (Toulgoët, 1956)
• Exilisia quadripunctata (Toulgoët, 1956)
• Exilisia variegata Toulgoët, 1972
• Fodinoidea pupieri Toulgoët, 1972
• Galtara colettae Toulgoët, 1976
• Galtara extensa (Butler, 1880)
• Leucaloa infragyrea (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Mimulosia quadripunctaria (Toulgoët, 1956)
• Neuroxena rectilineata (Toulgoët, 1972)
• Nyctemera insulare (Boisduval, 1833)
• Nyctemera pallescens Oberthür, 1890
• Pelosia stictigramma (Hampson, 1908)
• Podomachla virgo (Strand, 1909)
• Proxhyle comoreana Toulgoët, 1959
• Siccia punctipennis (Wallengren, 1860)
• Spatulosia griveaudi Toulgoët, 1972
• Thumatha fuscescens Walker, 1866
• Utetheisa elata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Viettesia bicolor Toulgoët, 1980
• Viettesia matilei Toulgoët, 1978

Carposinidae[]

• Carposina impavida Meyrick, 1913

Copromorphidae[]

• Copromorpha aeruginea Meyrick, 1917
• Copromorpha cryptochlora Meyrick, 1930
• Copromorpha mesobactra Meyrick, 1930

Crambidae[]

• Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854
• Agathodes ostentalis (Geyer, 1837)
• Ambia prolalis Viette, 1958
• Angustalius hapaliscus (Zeller, 1852)
• Angustalius malacellus (Duponchel, 1836)
• Antigastra catalaunalis (Duponchel, 1833)
• Bocchoris putrisalis (Viette, 1958)
• Bradina admixtalis (Walker, 1859)
• Bradina atralis (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Chabulina putrisalis (Viette, 1958)
• Chilo partellus (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Chilo sacchariphagus (Bojer, 1856)
• Cirrhochrista griveaudalis Viette, 1961
• Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Conotalis nigroradians (Mabille, 1900)
• Coptobasoides comoralis Viette, 1960
• Coptobasoides djadjoualis Viette, 1981
• Cotachena octoguttalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794)
• Crocidophora caffralis Hampson, 1910
• Crocidophora elongalis Viette, 1978
• Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Diaphania oriolalis (Viette, 1958)
• Dipleurinodes comorensis Leraut, 1989
• Dipleurinodes nigra Leraut, 1989
• Epipagis cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Euchromius mythus Błeszyński, 1970
• Eudipleurina viettei Leraut, 1989
• Euphyciodes albotessulalis (Mabille, 1900)
• Eurrhyparodes tricoloralis (Zeller, 1852)
• Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glyphodes boseae Saalmüller, 1880
• Glyphodes capensis (Walker, 1866)
• Glyphodes mascarenalis de Joannis, 1906
• Glyphodes oriolalis (Viette, 1958)
• Glyphodes mayottalis Hampson, 1908
• Glyphodes shafferorum Viette, 1987
• Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854
• Goniorhynchus argyropalis (Hampson, 1908)
• Haimbachia leucopleuralis (Mabille, 1900)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
• Hendecasis duplifascialis (Hampson, 1891)
• Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Herpetogramma brunnealis (Hampson, 1913)
• Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Hyalobathra filalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832)
• Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Ischnurges lancinalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Isocentris retinalis (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Lamprosema argyropalis (Hampson, 1908)
• Leucinodes hemichionalis (Mabille, 1900)
• Nausinoe capensis (Walker, 1866)
• Neurophyseta comoralis (Strand, 1916)
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Notarcha quaternalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
• Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pardomima zanclophora Martin, 1955
• Parotis ankaratralis (Marion, 1954)
• (Strand, 1912)
• Parotis prasinalis (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Patissa ochreipalpalis Hampson, 1919
• Pioneabathra olesialis (Walker, 1859)
• Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Pyrausta bouveti Viette, 1981
• (Walker, 1859)
• Pyrausta phaenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Scirpophaga gilviberbis Zeller, 1863
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Stemorrhages sericea (Drury, 1773)
• Stenochora lancinalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Syllepte melanopalis Hampson, 1908
• Syllepte patagialis (Zeller, 1852)
• Syllepte undulalis (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Ulopeza primalis Viette, 1958
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)
• Zebronia virginalis Viette, 1958

Drepanidae[]

• Archidrepana saturniata Warren, 1902

Elachistidae[]

• Agonopterix nyctalopis (Meyrick, 1930)
• Ethmia ampanella Viette, 1976
• Ethmia comoriensis Viette, 1963

Euteliidae[]

• Viette, 1984
• Viette, 1984
• Viette, 1984

Gelechiidae[]

• Brachmia convolvuli Walsingham, 1907
• Dichomeris acuminatus (Staudinger, 1876)

Geometridae[]

• Herbulot, 1978
• Antitrygodes herbuloti Viette, 1977
• Antitrygodes malagasy Viette, 1977
• Herbulot, 1954
• (Walker, 1860)
• Ascotis selenaria ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Asthenotricha torata L. B. Prout, 1932
• Herbulot, 1978
• Herbulot, 1956
• (Mabille, 1880)
• Chiasmia normata (Walker, 1861)
• Chiasmia simplicilinea (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Chloroclystis comorana Herbulot, 1978
• Chloroclystis consocer Prout, 1937
• Chloroclystis grisea Warren, 1897
• Chloroclystis nanula (Mabille, 1900)
• Chloroclystis taxata Herbulot, 1981
• Chloroclystis toreumata L. B. Prout, 1937
• (Mabille, 1893)
• (Herbulot, 1965)
• (Janse, 1932)
• (Strand, 1914)
• Cleora transversaria (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Collix foraminata Guenée, 1858
• (Oberthür, 1913)
• (Mabille, 1880)
• Comibaena punctaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Herbulot, 1981
• Prout, 1915
• (Guenée, 1862)
• (Walker, 1862)
• Herbulot, 1960
• (Warren, 1897)
• (Prout, 1923)
• Herbulot, 1981
• (Boisduval, 1833)
• Eucrostes disparata Walker, 1861
• Eupithecia alticomora Herbulot, 1981
• Eupithecia bolespora L. B. Prout, 1937
• Eupithecia ericeti Herbulot, 1970
• Eupithecia exheres Herbulot, 1954
• Gymnoscelis olsoufieffae L. B. Prout, 1937
• Gymnoscelis rubricata (de Joannis, 1932)
• L. B. Prout, 1922
• Horisme albostriata (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Herbulot, 1978
• (Snellen, 1872)
• (Warren, 1897)
• Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Krüger, 2001
• Isturgia contexta (Saalmüller, 1891)
• (Walker, 1861)
• Isturgia univirgaria (Mabille, 1880)
• (Warren, 1898)
• Herbulot, 1966
• Herbulot, 1966
• Herbulot, 1954
• Orthonama quadrisecta Herbulot, 1954
• Phaiogramma stibolepida (Butler, 1879)
• Pingasa griveaudi Herbulot, 1966
• Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Pingasa ultrata Herbulot, 1966
• Problepsis meroearia Saalmüller, 1884
• (Warren, 1899)
• (Mabille, 1898)
• Prout, 1932
• Psilocerea psegma Herbulot, 1981
• (Mabille, 1898)
• Racotis deportata Herbulot, 1970
• Racotis squalida (Butler, 1878)
• Rhodesia alboviridata (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Warren, 1897
• Scopula bistrigata (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Scopula caesaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula cornishi Prout, 1932
• Scopula internataria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula lactaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
• Scopula rebaptisa Herbulot, 1985
• Scopula rufolutaria (Mabille, 1900)
• Somatina lia Prout, 1915
• Somatina vestalis (Butler, 1875)
• (Fabricius, 1793)
• Prout, 1926
• Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1857
• Traminda obversata (Walker, 1861)
• Herbulot, 1981
• Herbulot, 1961
• Herbulot, 1961
• (Warren, 1897)
• (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Prout, 1925
• Zamarada differens Bastelberger, 1907

Immidae[]

• Bryonympha silvana Meyrick, 1930
• Imma infima Meyrick, 1930

Lasiocampidae[]

• Viette, 1981

Lecithoceridae[]

• Lecithocera malacta Meyrick, 1918
• Odites analogica Meyrick, 1917
• Odites carcharopa Meyrick, 1914
• Odites fructuosa Meyrick, 1915
• Odites hermatica Meyrick, 1915
• Odites pedicata Meyrick, 1914

Limacodidae[]

• Viette, 1980

Lymantriidae[]

• Collenette, 1937
• (Walker, 1863)
• Euproctis mayottensis Collenette, 1956
• (Collenette, 1931)
• Rothschild, 1916
• Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)

Metarbelidae[]

• Salagena ngazidya Viette, 1981

Noctuidae[]

• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Achaea diplographa Hampson, 1913
• Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mabille, 1879
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis longidentifera (Hampson, 1903)
• Viette, 1958
• Aletia infrargyrea (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Aletia pyrausta (Hampson, 1913)
• (Rungs, 1956)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Ancarista laminifera (Saalmüller, 1878)
• Viette, 1965
• Anomis auragoides (Guenée, 1852)
• Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Viette, 1981
• Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Asota borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)
• Asota comorana (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Asota fereunicolor (Toulgoët, 1972)
• Athetis ignava (Guenée, 1852)
• Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)
• Callixena versicolora Saalmüller, 1891
• Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
• (Oberthür, 1890)
• (Boisduval, 1833)
• Viette, 1965
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Viette, 1981
• Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
• (Walker, 1858)
• Conservula cinisigna de Joannis, 1906
• Conservula malagasa (Gaede, 1915)
• Ctenoplusia furcifera (Walker, 1857)
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
• Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Digama sagittata Gaede, 1926
• Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
• (Mabille, 1890)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Guenée, 1852
• Erebus walkeri (Butler, 1875)
• Ericeia albangula (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Ericeia lituraria (Saalmüller, 1880)
• Eublemmoides apicimacula (Mabille, 1880)
• Eudocima fullonia (Clerck, 1764)
• Guenée, 1852
• Gracilodes nysa Guenée, 1852
• Grammodes bifasciata (Petagna, 1787)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Viette, 1981
• Lödl, 1994
• Viette, 1968
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Mabille, 1879
• Hypena polycyma Hampson, 1902
• Prout, 1921
• Prout, 1925
• Hypena varialis Walker, 1866
• Leucania insulicola Guenée, 1852
• Saalmüller, 1891
• (Mabille, 1900)
• Maxera marchalii (Boisduval, 1833)
• Megalonycta mediovitta (Rothschild, 1924)
• Mentaxya ignicollis (Walker, 1857)
• Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858)
• Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Nagia linteola (Guenée, 1852)
• Nesaegocera comorana (Jordan, 1926)
• Ophiusa finifascia (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa legendrei Viette, 1967
• Holland, 1894
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Rhesala moestalis (Walker, 1866)
• Sesamia calamistis Hampson, 1910
• Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• (Walker, [1858])
• Tolna sypnoides (Butler, 1878)
• Viette, 1981
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)

Nolidae[]

• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Berio, 1956
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• (Viette, 1956)
• (Saalmüller, 1884)
• (Toulgoët, 1961)
• (Toulgoët, 1954)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)

Notodontidae[]

• Kiriakoff, 1969
• Kiriakoff, 1969

Oecophoridae[]

• Meyrick, 1914

Pterophoridae[]

• Exelastis crudipennis (Meyrick, 1932)
• Exelastis luqueti (Gibeaux, 1994)
• Exelastis phlyctaenias (Meyrick, 1911
• Exelastis robinsoni Gibeaux, 1994
• Exelastis viettei (Gibeaux, 1994)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Megalorhipida prolai Gibeaux, 1994
• Ochyrotica moheliensis Gibeaux, 1994
• Ochyrotica rufa Arenberger, 1987
• Platyptilia comorensis Gibeaux, 1994
• Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Titanoptilus laniger Bigot, 1969
• Walsinghamiella prolai (Gibeaux, 1994)

Pyralidae[]

• Canthelea oegnusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Endotricha vinolentalis Ragonot, 1891
• Epicrocis oegnusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832)
• Leraut, 2010
• Macalla seyrigalis Marion & Viette, 1956
• Maliarpha separatella (Ragonot, 1888)
• Marionana paulianalis Viette, 1953
• Nhoabe privatalis Viette, 1960
• Boisduval, 1833

Saturniidae[]

• Antherina suraka (Boisduval, 1833)

Sphingidae[]

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
• Batocnema coquerelii (Boisduval, 1875)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Coelonia fulvinotata (Butler, 1875)
• Coelonia solani (Boisduval, 1833)
• Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dargeclanis grandidieri (Mabille, 1879)
• Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
• Hippotion geryon (Boisduval, 1875)
• Maassenia heydeni (Saalmüller, 1878)
• Macroglossum aesalon Mabille, 1879
• Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823)
• Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
• Nephele comoroana Clark, 1923
• Nephele densoi (Keferstein, 1870)
• Nephele oenopion (Hübner, [1824])
• Pseudoclanis grandidieri (Mabille, 1879)
• Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora leighi Rothschild & Jordan, 1915
• Temnora marginata (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora peckoveri (Butler, 1876)
• Temnora pseudopylas (Rothschild, 1894)
• Theretra orpheus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Xanthopan morganii (Walker, 1856)

Thyrididae[]

• Hapana carcealis Whalley, 1971
• (Mabille, 1879)
• (Plötz, 1880)
• Viette, 1957

Tineidae[]

• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Cimitra horridella (Walker, 1863)
• (Stainton, 1859)
• Scalidomia fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Gozmány, 1968
• Walsingham, 1881

Tortricidae[]

• Diakonoff, 1963
• Bactra stagnicolana Zeller, 1852
• Brachiolia amblopis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Brachiolia egenella (Walker, 1864)
• (Meyrick, 1912)
• (Mabille, 1900)
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1981
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1989
• Diakonoff, 1960
• Procrica agrapha Diakonoff, 1983
• Procrica diarda Diakonoff, 1983
• Procrica intrepida (Meyrick, 1912)
• Procrica sanidota (Meyrick, 1912)
• Diakonoff, 1983
• Diakonoff, 1983

Uraniidae[]

• Boudinot, 1982
• Dirades theclata (Guenée, 1858)
• Boudinot, 1982
• Warren, 1899
• Boudinot, 1982

Xyloryctidae[]

• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852

References[]

• De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2014). "Advanced search: Distribution: country". Afromoths. Retrieved 20 March 2014.