List of moths of the Republic of the Congo

There are about 380 known moth species of the Republic of the Congo. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Location of the Republic of the Congo

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in the Republic of the Congo.

Adelidae

Alucitidae

Anomoeotidae

Arctiidae

Autostichidae

Carposinidae

Choreutidae

Crambidae

Elachistidae

Eriocottidae

Eupterotidae

Gelechiidae

Geometridae

  • Aletis erici Kirby, 1896
  • Anacleora diffusa (Walker, 1869)
  • Aphilopota mailaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
  • Aphilopota strigosissima (Bastelberger, 1909)
  • Biston abruptaria (Walker, 1869)
  • Braueriana fiorino Bryk, 1913
  • Chiasmia majestica (Warren, 1901)
  • Chiasmia streniata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Chrysocraspeda abdominalis (Herbulot, 1984)
  • Chrysocraspeda rubripennis (Warren, 1898)
  • Colocleora binoti Herbulot, 1983
  • Colocleora ducleri Herbulot, 1983
  • Colocleora linearis Herbulot, 1985
  • Colocleora sanghana Herbulot, 1985
  • Colocleora smithi (Warren, 1904)
  • Conolophia persimilis (Warren, 1905)
  • Dorsifulcrum cephalotes (Walker, 1869)
  • Epigynopteryx prophylacis Herbulot, 1984
  • Euproutia aggravaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Hypochrosis banakaria (Plötz, 1880)
  • Hypomecis dedecora (Herbulot, 1985)
  • Idaea inquisita (Prout, 1932)
  • Melinoessa sodaliata (Walker, 1862)
  • Melinoessa stramineata (Walker, 1869)
  • Mesomima tenuifascia (Holland, 1893)
  • Miantochora picturata Herbulot, 1985
  • Mimaletis postica (Walker, 1869)
  • Oxyfidonia umbrina Herbulot, 1985
  • Piercia myopteryx Prout, 1935
  • Pitthea catadela D. S. Fletcher, 1963
  • Pitthea cunaxa Druce, 1887
  • Pitthea famula Drury, 1773
  • Pitthea perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Prasinocyma congrua (Walker, 1869)
  • Psilocladia loxostigma Prout, 1915
  • Racotis squalida (Butler, 1878)
  • Scopula macrocelis (Prout, 1915)
  • Semiothisa testaceata (Walker, 1863)
  • Somatina chalyboeata (Walker, 1869)
  • Terina circumdata Walker, 1865
  • Terina crocea Hampson, 1910
  • Terina latifascia Walker, 1854
  • Terina niphanda Druce, 1887
  • Xenochroma silvatica Herbulot, 1984
  • Xylopteryx triphaenata Herbulot, 1984
  • Zamarada modesta Herbulot, 1985
  • Zeuctoboarmia ochracea Herbulot, 1985

Glyphipterigidae

Gracillariidae

Himantopteridae

Hyblaeidae

Immidae

Lacturidae

Lasiocampidae

  • Cheligium choerocampoides (Holland, 1893)
  • Cheligium nigrescens (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Cheligium pinheyi Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Euwallengrenia reducta (Walker, 1855)
  • Gelo jordani (Tams, 1936)
  • Grellada imitans (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Grellada marshalli (Aurivillius, 1902)
  • Lechriolepis tessmanni Strand, 1912
  • Leipoxais marginepunctata Holland, 1893
  • Leipoxais rufobrunnea Strand, 1912
  • Mimopacha gerstaeckerii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Mimopacha knoblauchii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Muzunguja rectilineata (Aurivillius, 1900)
  • Nepehria olivia Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2010
  • Odontocheilopteryx conzolia Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
  • Odontocheilopteryx phoneus Hering, 1928
  • Opisthoheza heza Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Pachymeta contraria (Walker, 1855)
  • Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
  • Pachytrina gliharta Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pachytrina honrathii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Pachytrina philargyria (Hering, 1928)
  • Pachytrina rubra (Tams, 1929)
  • Pachytrina trihora Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
  • Pallastica meloui (Riel, 1909)
  • Pallastica sericeofasciata (Aurivillius, 1921)
  • Pehria umbrina (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Schausinna clementsi (Schaus, 1897)
  • Sonitha libera (Aurivillius, 1914)
  • Stenophatna hollandi (Tams, 1929)
  • Stenophatna kahli (Tams, 1929)
  • Theophasida obusta (Tams, 1929)
  • Theophasida valkyria Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010

Lecithoceridae

Limacodidae

  • Parasa chapmani Kirby, 1892
  • Zinara nervosa Walker, 1869

Lymantriidae

  • Euproctis pygmaea (Walker, 1855)
  • Knappetra fasciata (Walker, 1855)
  • Naroma signifera Walker, 1856
  • Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
  • Otroeda manifesta (Swinhoe, 1903)

Noctuidae

Nolidae

  • Eligma allaudi Pinhey, 1968

Notodontidae

  • Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
  • Antheua trifasciata (Hampson, 1909)
  • Arciera postalba Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Arciera roseiventris Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Arciera rufescens (Kiriakoff, 1962)
  • Boscawenia bryki (Schultze, 1934)
  • Boscawenia caradrinoides (Schultze, 1934)
  • Boscawenia incerta (Schultze, 1934)
  • Boscawenia jaspidea (Schultze, 1934)
  • Catarctia divisa (Walker, 1855)
  • Desmeocraera chloeropsis (Holland, 1893)
  • Desmeocraera congoana Aurivillius, 1900
  • Desmeocraera geminata Gaede, 1928
  • Desmeocraera sagittata Gaede, 1928
  • Epidonta insigniata (Gaede, 1932)
  • Haplozana nigrolineata Aurivillius, 1901
  • Scaeopteryx curvatula (Rothschild, 1917)
  • Scalmicauda adusta Kiriakoff, 1963
  • Scalmicauda rectilinea (Gaede, 1928)
  • Scrancia stictica Hampson, 1910

Oecophoridae

  • Orygocera carnicolor Walsingham, 1897
  • Pseudoprotasis canariella Walsingham, 1897

Psychidae

  • Melasina imperfecta Meyrick, 1922
  • Melasina polycapnias Meyrick, 1922
  • Melasina scrutaria Meyrick, 1922
  • Mesopolia inconspicua Walsingham, 1897
  • Narycia centropa Meyrick, 1922

Pterophoridae

Saturniidae

  • Bunaeopsis licharbas (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
  • Decachorda congolana Bouvier, 1930
  • Decachorda inspersa (Hampson, 1910)
  • Epiphora congolana (Bouvier, 1929)
  • Epiphora vacuna (Westwood, 1849)
  • Gonimbrasia rectilineata (Sonthonnax, 1899)
  • Gonimbrasia tyrrhea (Cramer, 1775)
  • Goodia dimonica Darge, 2008
  • Goodia hierax Jordan, 1922
  • Goodia lunata Holland, 1893
  • Goodia unguiculata Bouvier, 1936
  • Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
  • Lobobunaea rosea (Sonthonnax, 1899)
  • Micragone agathylla (Westwood, 1849)
  • Micragone caliginosa Darge, 2010
  • Micragone ducorpsi (De Fleury, 1925)
  • Micragone elisabethae Bouvier, 1930
  • Micragone joiceyi Bouvier, 1930
  • Micragone lichenodes (Holland, 1893)
  • Micragone loutemboensis Darge, 2010
  • Micragone morini Rougeot, 1977
  • Micragone neonubifera Rougeot, 1979
  • Nudaurelia alopia Westwood, 1849
  • Nudaurelia bouvieri (Le Moult, 1933)
  • Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)
  • Orthogonioptilum andreasum Rougeot, 1967
  • Orthogonioptilum fontainei Rougeot, 1962
  • Orthogonioptilum prox Karsch, 1892
  • Pseudantheraea discrepans (Butler, 1878)
  • Pseudaphelia kaeremii Bouvier, 1927
  • Pseudaphelia simplex Rebel, 1906
  • Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
  • Pseudobunaea parathyrrena (Bouvier, 1927)

Sesiidae

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

  • Arniocera viridifasciata (Aurivillius, 1900)
  • Marmax semiaurata (Walker, 1854)

Tineidae

  • Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
  • Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Criticonoma episcardina (Gozmány, 1965)
  • Dasyses rugosella (Stainton, 1859)
  • Hyperbola zicsii Gozmány, 1965
  • Machaeropteris baloghi Gozmány, 1965
  • Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
  • Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
  • Morophaga soror Gozmány, 1965
  • Oxymachaeris euryzancla Meyrick, 1918
  • Perissomastix pyroxantha (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Pitharcha latriodes (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Tiquadra lichenea Walsingham, 1897

Tortricidae

Zygaenidae

  • Astyloneura chlorotica (Hampson, 1920)
  • Saliunca mimetica Jordan, 1907
  • Saliunca nkolentangensis Strand, 1913
  • Saliunca rubriventris Holland, 1920

References

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