List of moths of Mozambique

The moths of Mozambique represent about 520 known species. Moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Location of Mozambique

This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Mozambique.

Adelidae

Alucitidae

Arctiidae

Autostichidae

Batrachedridae

Brachodidae

Choreutidae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

Elachistidae

Eriocottidae

Eupterotidae

Gelechiidae

Geometridae
  • Acanthovalva bilineata (Warren, 1895)
  • Acanthovalva inconspicuaria (Hübner, 1819)
  • Biston exsilia Karisch, 2005
  • Cartaletis libyssa (Hopffer, 1857)
  • Chiasmia alternata (Warren, 1899)
  • Chiasmia amarata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Chiasmia ammodes (Prout, 1922)
  • Chiasmia assimilis (Warren, 1899)
  • Chiasmia boarmioides Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860)
  • Chiasmia confuscata (Warren, 1899)
  • Chiasmia curvifascia (Warren, 1897)
  • Chiasmia deceptrix Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia extrusilinea (Prout 1925)
  • Chiasmia feraliata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Chiasmia fuscataria (Möschler, 1887)
  • Chiasmia grisescens (Prout, 1916)
  • Chiasmia inconspicua (Warren, 1897)
  • Chiasmia inquinata Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia kilimanjarensis (Holland, 1892)
  • Chiasmia majestica (Warren, 1901)
  • Chiasmia marmorata Warren, 1897
  • Chiasmia maronga Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia nana (Warren, 1898)
  • Chiasmia orientalis Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia paucimacula Krüger, 2001
  • Chiasmia rectistriaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
  • Chiasmia rhabdophora (Holland, 1892)
  • Chiasmia separata (Druce, 1882)
  • Chiasmia simplicilinea (Warren, 1905)
  • Chiasmia sororcula (Warren, 1897)
  • Chiasmia streniata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Chiasmia subcurvaria (Mabille, 1897)
  • Chiasmia tecnium (Prout 1916)
  • Chiasmia threnopsis (D. S. Fletcher, 1963)
  • Chiasmia umbrata (Warren, 1897)
  • Chiasmia umbratilis (Butler, 1875)
  • Comibaena leucospilata (Walker, 1863)
  • Diptychis meraca Prout, 1928
  • Heterorachis devocata (Walker, 1861)
  • Isturgia arizeloides Krüger, 2001
  • Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1857)
  • Isturgia deerraria (Walker, 1861)
  • Isturgia exospilata (Walker, 1861)
  • Isturgia spissata (Walker, 1862)
  • Isturgia supergressa (Prout 1913)
  • Metallochlora dyscheres Prout, 1922
  • Mixocera albistrigata (Pagenstecher, 1893)
  • Nassinia aurantiaca Prout, 1928
  • Neromia rhodomadia Prout, 1922
  • Nychiodes tyttha Prout, 1915
  • Omizodes ocellata Warren, 1894
  • Omizodes rubrifasciata (Butler, 1896)
  • Paragathia albimarginata Warren, 1902
  • Plateoplia acrobelia Wallengren 1875
  • Platypepla spurcata Warren 1897
  • Racotis apodosima Prout, 1931
  • Racotis squalida (Butler, 1878)
  • Rhodesia viridalbata Warren, 1905
  • Rhodometra audeoudi Prout, 1928
  • Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Traminda neptunaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Xanthisthisa tergorinota Prout, 1928
  • Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895
  • Zamarada adiposata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Zamarada bathyscaphes Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada crystallophana Mabille, 1900
  • Zamarada deceptrix Warren, 1914
  • Zamarada delosis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dentigera Warren, 1909
  • Zamarada differens Bastelberger, 1907
  • Zamarada erugata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
  • Zamarada flavicaput Warren, 1901
  • Zamarada glareosa Bastelberger, 1909
  • Zamarada ignicosta Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada ilma Prout, 1922
  • Zamarada inermis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada metrioscaphes Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada phaeozona Hampson, 1909
  • Zamarada plana Bastelberger, 1909
  • Zamarada psammites D. S. Fletcher, 1958
  • Zamarada psectra D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada pulverosa Warren, 1895
  • Zamarada purimargo Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe, 1904
  • Zamarada scintillans Bastelberger, 1909
  • Zamarada seydeli D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada transvisaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Zamarada varii D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Gracillariidae

Hepialidae

Lacturidae
  • Gymnogramma flavivitella (Walsingham, 1881)

Lasiocampidae
  • Anadiasa affinis Aurivillius, 1911
  • Anadiasa schoenheiti (Wichgraf, 1922)
  • Anadiasa swierstrai Aurivillius, 1922
  • Braura truncatum (Walker, 1855)
  • Cleopatrina phocea (Druce, 1887)
  • Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906)
  • Eucraera gemmata (Distant, 1897)
  • Eucraera koellikerii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Eucraera salammbo (Vuillot, 1892)
  • Eutricha morosa (Walker, 1865)
  • Gonometa postica Walker, 1855
  • Gonometa robusta (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Grammodora nigrolineata (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Laeliopsis punctuligera Aurivillius, 1911
  • Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Philotherma rosa (Druce, 1887)
  • Sophyrita argibasis (Mabille, 1893)
  • Stenophatna cymographa (Hampson, 1910)
  • Stenophatna hollandi (Tams, 1929)
  • Streblote polydora (Druce, 1887)
  • Trichopisthia monteiroi (Druce, 1887)

Lecithoceridae

Limacodidae
Chrysopoloma isabellina
  • Chrysopoloma isabellina Aurivillius, 1895
  • Chrysopoloma rosea Druce, 1886
  • Crothaema sericea Butler, 1880
  • Halseyia rectifascia (Hering, 1937)
  • Latoia vivida (Walker, 1865)
  • Latoia viridifascia Holland, 1893
  • Micraphe lateritia Karsch, 1896
  • Miresa habenichti Wichgraf, 1913
  • Omocenoides isophanes Janse, 1964
  • Scotinochroa inconsequens Butler, 1897
  • Scotinochroa rufescens Janse, 1964
  • Taeda gemmans (Felder, 1874)
  • Thosea rufimacula Joicey & Talbot, 1921
  • Trogocrada deleter Tams, 1953
  • Zinara discophora Hampson, 1910
  • Zinara nervosa Walker, 1869

Lymantriidae
  • Aclonophlebia rhodea Hampson, 1905
  • Aroa discalis Walker, 1855
  • Cimola opalina Walker, 1855
  • Crorema fulvinotata (Butler, 1893)
  • Dasychira cangia Druce, 1887
  • Euproctis dewitzi (Grünberg, 1907)
  • Euproctis pallida (Kirby, 1896)
  • Euproctis punctifera (Walker, 1855)
  • Griveaudyria cangia (Druce, 1887)
  • Homochira poecilosticta Collenette, 1938
  • Lacipa gracilis Hopffer, 1857
  • Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
  • Palasea albimacula Wallengren, 1863
  • Pteredoa subapicalis Hering, 1926

Lyonetiidae

Noctuidae
  • Achaea echo (Walker, 1858)
  • Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
  • Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Achaea mercatoria (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Achaea praestans (Guenée, 1852)
  • Acontia caffraria (Cramer, 1777)
  • Acontia discoidea Hopffer, 1857
  • Acontia guttifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
  • Acontia hampsoni Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
  • Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
  • Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
  • Acontia natalis (Guenée, 1852)
  • Acontia niphogona (Hampson, 1909)
  • Acontia psaliphora (Hampson, 1910)
  • Acontia trimaculata Aurivillius, 1879
  • Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
  • Amazonides tabida (Guenée, 1852)
  • Anomis polymorpha Hampson, 1926
  • Antiophlebia bracteata Felder, 1874
  • Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
  • Athetis satellitia (Hampson, 1902)
  • Attatha ethiopica Hampson, 1910
  • Brephos decora (Linnaeus, 1764)
  • Brevipecten cornuta Hampson, 1902
  • Brevipecten wolframmeyi Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
  • Busseola fusca (Fuller, 1901)
  • Calliodes pretiosissima Holland, 1892
  • Cerocala vermiculosa Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
  • Cometaster pyrula (Hopffer, 1857)
  • Compsotata elegantissima (Guenée, 1852)
  • Cuneisigna obstans (Walker, 1858)
  • Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
  • Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Deinopa flavida Hampson, 1926
  • Diaphone eumela (Stoll, 1781)
  • Diaphone mossambicensis Hopffer, 1862
  • Diparopsis castanea Hampson, 1902
  • Dysgonia algira Linnaeus, 1767
  • Dysgonia albilinea (Hampson, 1918)
  • Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
  • Egybolis vaillantina (Stoll, 1790)
  • Entomogramma pardus Guenée, 1852
  • Episparis leucotessellis Hampson, 1902
  • Erebus macrops (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Erebus walkeri (Butler, 1875)
  • Ethiopica cupricolor (Hampson, 1902)
  • Eublemma anachoresis (Wallengren, 1863)
  • Eulocastra poliogramma Hampson, 1918
  • Eutelia callichroma (Distant, 1901)
  • Eutelia vulgaris Mabille, 1900
  • Feliniopsis africana (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
  • Gesonia stictigramma Hampson, 1926
  • Grammodes exclusiva Pagenstecher, 1907
  • Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
  • Heliophisma xanthoptera (Hampson, 1910)
  • Heraclia mozambica (Mabille, 1890)
  • Heraclia pentelia (Druce, 1887)
  • Heraclia perdix (Druce, 1887)
  • Heraclia superba (Butler, 1875)
  • Hespagarista echione (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Hydrillodes uliginosalis Guenée, 1854
  • Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
  • Leucovis alba (Rothschild, 1897)
  • Marcipa mediana Hampson, 1926
  • Marcipa phaeodonta Hampson, 1926
  • Maxera brachypecten Hampson, 1926
  • Mecodina rufipalpis Hampson, 1926
  • Mentaxya ignicollis (Walker, 1857)
  • Mesogenea costimacula Hampson, 1926
  • Miniodes discolor Guenée, 1852
  • Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Mocis mutuaria (Walker, 1858)
  • Mocis undata (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller, 1891)
  • Oedebasis ovipennis Hampson, 1902
  • Ophiusa hypoxantha (Hampson, 1918)
  • Ophiusa legendrei Viette, 1967
  • Ophiusa tettensis (Hopffer, 1857)
  • Ozarba cryptochrysea (Hampson, 1902)
  • Ozarba fasciata (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Pangrapta melacleptra Hampson, 1926
  • Paralephana argyresthia Hampson, 1926
  • Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Proschaliphora albida Hampson, 1909
  • Pseudogyrtona nigrivitta Hampson, 1926
  • Sergiusia pentelia (Druce, 1887)
  • Sesamia calamistis Hampson, 1910
  • Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
  • Sommeria culta Hübner, 1831
  • Syngatha semipurpurea Hampson, 1918
  • Tavia latebra Hampson, 1926
  • Tephrialia vausema Hampson, 1926
  • Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
  • Tycomarptes inferior (Guenée, 1852)
  • Zekelita angularis (Mabille, 1880)

Nolidae
  • Acaenica diaperas Hampson, 1918
  • Blenina quadripuncta Hampson, 1902
  • Bryothripa miophaea Hampson, 1912
  • Chlorozada metaleuca (Hampson, 1905)
  • Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
  • Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Megathripa rufimedia (Hampson, 1905)
  • Nola quilimanensis Strand, 1920
  • Nola socotrensis (Hampson, 1901)
  • Nola taeniata Snellen, 1874
  • Odontestis fuscicona (Hampson, 1910)
  • Paranola bipartita van Son, 1933
  • Paranola nigristriga van Son, 1933

Notodontidae
  • Amyops ingens Karsch, 1895
  • Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
  • Atrasana nigrosignata Kiriakoff, 1975
  • Bisolita rubrifascia (Hampson, 1910)
  • Deinarchia agramma (Hampson, 1910)
  • Desmeocraera moza Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Eurystauridia iphis Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Fentonina exacta Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Odontoperas heterogyna (Hampson, 1910)
  • Phalera atrata (Grünberg, 1907)
  • Pinheyia lymantrioides Kiriakoff, 1971
  • Psalisodes dimorpha Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scrancia pinheyi Kiriakoff, 1965
  • Ulinodes costalis Kiriakoff, 1968

Oecophoridae
  • Isocrita phlyctidopa Meyrick, 1921
  • Lasiomactra acharista Meyrick, 1921
  • Oedematopoda princeps (Zeller, 1852)
  • Orygocera recordata Meyrick, 1921
  • Porthmologa deltophanes Meyrick, 1918
  • Stathmopoda aegotricha Meyrick, 1921
  • Stathmopoda teleozona Meyrick, 1921

Psychidae
  • Acanthopsyche emiliae (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Albidopsis major (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Barbaroscardia fasciata Walsingham, 1891
  • Diaphanopsyche rogenhoferi (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
  • Eumeta hardenbergeri Bourgogne, 1955
  • Gymnelema rougemontii Heylaerts, 1891
  • Melasina hippias Meyrick, 1921
  • Psyche trimeni Heylaerts, 1891
  • Typhonia linodyta (Meyrick, 1921)

Pterophoridae

Pyralidae

Saturniidae
Campimoptilum kuntzei
  • Adafroptilum austriorientale Darge, 2008
  • Adafroptilum incana (Sonthonnax, 1899)
  • Antistathmoptera daltonae Tams, 1935
  • Antistathmoptera rectangulata Pinhey, 1968
  • Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
  • Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
  • Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Bunaeopsis oubie (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)
  • Campimoptilum kuntzei (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Cinabra hyperbius (Westwood, 1881)
  • Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
  • Epiphora mythimnia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Gonimbrasia affinis (Bouvier, 1926)
  • Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1849)
  • Gonimbrasia wahlbergii (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Gonimbrasia zambesina (Walker, 1865)
  • Gynanisa maja (Klug, 1836)
  • Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Holocerina smilax (Westwood, 1849)
  • Imbrasia ertli Rebel, 1904
  • Lobobunaea angasana (Westwood, 1849)
  • Ludia delegorguei (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Ludia goniata Rothschild, 1907
  • Melanocera menippe (Westwood, 1849)
  • Micragone cana (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Micragone nubifera Bouvier, 1936
  • Pselaphelia flavivitta (Walker, 1862)
  • Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
  • Pseudobunaea irius (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Pseudobunaea tyrrhena (Westwood, 1849)
  • Usta terpsichore (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)

Sesiidae
  • Chamanthedon amorpha Hampson, 1919
  • Chamanthedon critheis (Druce, 1899)
  • Chamanthedon elymais (Druce, 1899)
  • Chamanthedon tiresa (Druce, 1899)
  • Episannina melanochalcia Le Cerf, 1917
  • Melittia boulleti Le Cerf, 1917
  • Melittia endoxantha Hampson, 1919
  • Melittia natalensis Butler, 1874
  • Paranthrene cuprescens Hampson, 1919
  • Sura pyrocera Hampson, 1919
  • Synanthedon vassei (Le Cerf, 1917)
  • Tipulamima sophax (Druce, 1899)
  • Vespanthedon cerceris Le Cerf, 1917

Sphingidae

Thyrididae
  • Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857
  • Arniocera erythropyga (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Banisia joccatia (Whalley, 1971)
  • Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
  • Cecidothyris pexa (Hampson, 1906)
  • Chrysotypus splendida (Warren, 1899)
  • Dysodia constellata Warren, 1908
  • Dysodia intermedia (Walker, 1865)
  • Dysodia vitrina (Boisduval, 1829)
  • Epaena candida Whalley, 1971
  • Gnathodes helvella Whalley, 1971
  • Hapana minima Whalley, 1971
  • Hapana verticalis (Warren, 1899)
  • Kalenga ansorgei (Warren, 1899)
  • Kalenga culanota Whalley, 1971
  • Kuja squamigera (Pagenstecher, 1892)
  • Marmax smaragdina (Butler, 1888)
  • Netrocera jordani Joicey & Talbot, 1921
  • Rhodoneura flavicilia Hampson, 1906
  • Rhodoneura roseola Whalley, 1971
  • Rhodoneura sordidula (Plötz, 1880)

Tineidae
  • Acridotarsa melipecta (Meyrick, 1915)
  • Ateliotum crymodes (Meyrick, 1908)
  • Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
  • Crypsithyris insolita Meyrick, 1918
  • Drosica abjectella Walker, 1963
  • Ellochotis ectocharis Gozmány, 1976
  • Ellochotis lyncodes (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Enargocrasis galactopis (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Lysitona euryacta Meyrick, 1918
  • Machaeropteris eribapta Meyrick, 1915
  • Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
  • Opogona amphichorda Meyrick, 1921
  • Oxymachaeris euryzancla Meyrick, 1918
  • Perissomastix montis Gozmány, 1968
  • Perissomastix pyroxantha (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Pitharcha atrisecta (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Scalmatica myelodes (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Scalmatica phaulocentra (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Sphallestasis mahunkai Gozmány, 1976

Tortricidae
  • Afroploce karsholti Aarvik, 2004
  • Ancylis impatiens (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Bactra triceps Diakonoff, 1963
  • Choristoneura heliaspis (Meyrick, 1909)
  • Coniostola calculosa (Meyrick, 1913)
  • Coniostola lobostola (Meyrick, 1918)
  • Crocidosema leptozona (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Cydia trigonoptila (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Eccopsis affluens (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
  • Eucosma haematospila Meyrick, 1921
  • Fulcrifera aphrospila (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Geita micrograpta (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Lobesia deltophora (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Metendothenia balanacma (Meyrick, 1914)
  • Olethreutes lutipennis (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Olethreutes niphadastra (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Paraeccopsis insellata (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Paraeccopsis phoeniodes (Meyrick, 1921)

Uraniidae
  • Epiplema anomala Janse, 1932

Xyloryctidae

Yponomeutidae

Zygaenidae
  • Astyloneura meridionalis (Hampson, 1920)
  • Epiorna ochreipennis (Butler, 1874)
  • Tasema fulvithorax Hampson, 1920
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References
    • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
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