List of moths of the Gambia

There are about 300 known moth species of the Gambia. 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 the Gambia.

Arctiidae[]

• Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865)
• Acanthofrontia atricosta Hampson, 1918
• Aloa moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amata tomasina (Butler, 1876)
• Amerila fennia (Druce, 1887)
• Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
• Binna scita (Walker, 1865)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Cyana rejecta (Walker, 1854)
• Estigmene unilinea Rothschild, 1910
• Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Euchromia lethe (Fabricius, 1775)
• Logunovium nigricosta (Holland, 1893)
• (Butler, 1882)
• Oedaleosia nigricosta Hampson, 1900
• Poliosia albida Hampson, 1914
• Pseudothyretes perpusilla (Walker, 1856)
• Spilosoma crossi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma rava (Druce, 1898)
• Thyretes caffra Wallengren, 1863
• Trichaeta bivittata (Walker, 1864)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Autostichidae[]

• Procometis acutipennis (Walsingham, 1891)

Bombycidae[]

• Racinoa ianthe (Druce, 1887)

Brachodidae[]

• Nigilgia albitogata (Walsingham, 1891)

Coleophoridae[]

• Holcocera irroratella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Walsingham, 1891

Cosmopterigidae[]

• Alloclita gambiella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Anatrachyntis simplex (Walsingham, 1891)
• Cnemidolophus lavernellus Walsingham, 1881
• Macrobathra distincta (Walsingham, 1891)
• Macrobathra fasciata (Walsingham, 1891)

Cossidae[]

• Macrocossus toluminus (Druce, 1887)

Crambidae[]

• Bocchoris inspersalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Calamotropha discellus (Walker, 1863)
• Charltona albimixtalis Hampson, 1919
• Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1895)
• Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Dysallacta negatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854
• Haimbachia proalbivenalis (Błeszyński, 1961)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nausinoe geometralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita claralis (Walker, 1865)
• Palpita elealis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita unionalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Pleuroptya aegrotalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Sceliodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Stemorrhages sericea (Drury, 1773)
• Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
• Syllepte sarronalis (Walker, 1859)
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)

Drepanidae[]

• Negera confusa Walker, 1855
• Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)

Elachistidae[]

• Ptilobola inornatella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Stenoma complanella (Walsingham, 1891)

Eupterotidae[]

• Jana tantalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Phiala costipuncta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Vianga tristis Druce, 1896

Gelechiidae[]

• Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891
• Anarsia inculta Walsingham, 1891
• Brachmia septella (Zeller, 1852)
• Dactylethrella bryophilella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Dichomeris marginata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Dichomeris marmoratus (Walsingham, 1891)
• Onebala zulu (Walsingham, 1881)
• Polyhymno cleodorella Walsingham, 1891
• (Walsingham, 1891)
• Thiotricha tenuis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Tricyanaula metallica (Walsingham, 1891)

Geometridae[]

• Prout, 1954
• (Guenée, 1858)
• (Snellen, 1872)
• (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• (Walker, 1861)
• (Walker, 1863)
• (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• (Butler, 1875)
• (Drury, 1773)
• Prout, 1917
• (Wallengren, 1872)
• (Prout, 1926)
• Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)
• Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Scopula internata (Guenée, 1857)
• Scopula lactaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula latitans Prout, 1920
• Warren, 1898
• D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Warren, 1909
• Warren, 1897
• Swinhoe, 1904

Gracillariidae[]

• Acrocercops bifasciata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Lamprolectica apicistrigata (Walsingham, 1891)

Lasiocampidae[]

• (Walker, 1865)
• (Dewitz, 1881)
• (Walker, 1855)

Lecithoceridae[]

• Odites carterella Walsingham, 1891
• Odites inconspicua Walsingham, 1891
• Protolychnis marginata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Timyra extranea Walsingham, 1891

Lymantriidae[]

• Walker, 1855
• Walker, 1855
• (Druce, 1898)
• Druce, 1887
• (Boisduval, 1847)
• (Walker, 1863)
• (Walker, 1855)
• Plötz, 1880
• (Walker, 1855)
• Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
• Walker, 1855

Lyonetiidae[]

• Micropostega aeneofasciata Walsingham, 1891

Metarbelidae[]

• Kroonia carteri Lehmann, 2010

Nepticulidae[]

• Stigmella birgittae Gustafsson, 1985
• Stigmella zizyphi (Walsingham, 1911)

Noctuidae[]

• Acanthodelta janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Achaea albicilia (Walker, 1858)
• (Cramer, 1779)
• Walker, 1858
• Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858
• Walker, 1857
• Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Wallengren, 1856
• Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• (Druce, 1887)
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• (Hampson, 1909)
• Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
• Bareia incidens Walker, 1858
• Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Dysgonia arcifera (Druce, 1912)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Walker, 1865
• Erebus walkeri (Butler, 1875)
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Ericeia sobria Walker, 1858
• Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Hampson, 1910
• (Distant, 1901)
• (Hampson, 1912)
• Godasa sidae (Fabricius, 1793)
• Grammodes geometrica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliophisma klugii (Boisduval, 1833)
• (Walker, 1865)
• Walker, 1859
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
• Leucania insulicola Guenée, 1852
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• (Druce, 1903)
• Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Masalia nubila (Hampson, 1903)
• (Rothschild, 1921)
• (Guenée, 1852)
• Guenée, 1852
• Karsch, 1895
• (Walker, 1854)
• (Cramer, 1775)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• (L. B. Prout, 1919)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
• Oraesia emarginata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pandesma quenavadi Guenée, 1852
• (Walker, 1865)
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• (Walker, 1858)
• (Guenée, 1852)
• Hampson, 1910
• (Zeller, 1852)
• Serrodes nigha Guenée, 1852
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)

Nolidae[]

• (Hampson, 1905)
• (Druce, 1887)
• Hampson, 1912
• (Hampson, 1905)
• (Walker, 1858)
• (Druce, 1887)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• (Hampson, 1905)
• Hampson, 1912

Notodontidae[]

• Anaphe panda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Walker, 1855
• (Druce, 1901)
• (Walsingham, 1885)
• Epanaphe moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
• (Druce, 1887)

Oecophoridae[]

• Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
• Walsingham, 1891
• Walsingham, 1891

Plutellidae[]

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Psychidae[]

• Druce, 1887

Pterophoridae[]

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Trichoptilus vivax Meyrick, 1909

Pyralidae[]

• Ditrachyptera verruciferella (Ragonot, 1888)
• Endotricha vinolentalis Ragonot, 1891
• Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832)
• Faveria dionysia (Zeller, 1846)
• (Ragonot, 1888)

Saturniidae[]

• Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
• (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
• Karsch, 1892
• (Walker, 1865)

Sphingidae[]

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Coelonia solani (Boisduval, 1833)
• Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
• Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823)
• Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987
• Lophostethus dumolinii (Angas, 1849)
• Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
• Nephele aequivalens (Walker, 1856)
• Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857
• Nephele funebris (Fabricius, 1793)
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Nephele rosae Butler, 1875
• Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856)
• Rufoclanis rosea (Druce, 1882)
• Temnora livida (Holland, 1889)
• Temnora scitula (Holland, 1889)

Tineidae[]

• Walsingham, 1891
• (Stainton, 1859)
• Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
• Walsingham, 1891
• Gozmány & Vári, 1973
• (Meyrick, 1921)
• (Gozmány, 1968)
• (Gozmány, 1967)
• Tinea atomosella Walker, 1863
• Gozmány, 1968
• Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
• Trichophaga mormopis Meyrick, 1935

Tortricidae[]

• (Walsingham, 1891)
• (Walsingham, 1891)
• Bactra bactrana (Kennel, 1901)
• Diakonoff, 1963
• Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Walsingham, 1891
• Eccopsis incultana (Walker, 1863)
• Eccopsis nebulana Walsingham, 1891
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• (Walsingham, 1891)
• Panegyra flavicostana (Walsingham, 1891)
• (Meyrick, 1920)
• Walsingham, 1891
• Walsingham, 1891
• Pseudeboda gambiae Razowski, 1964
• Sanguinograptis albardana (Snellen, 1872)
• (Walsingham, 1891)

Uraniidae[]

• (Guenée, 1857)

Xyloryctidae[]

• Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera carteri Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852
• Meyrick, 1933
• (Walsingham, 1891)

Yponomeutidae[]

• (Walsingham, 1891)

External links[]

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