List of moths of Benin

Benin moths represent about 25 known moth species. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Location of Benin

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

Anomoeotidae

Alucitidae

Arctiidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

  • Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)

Geometridae

  • Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Gracillariidae

Noctuidae

  • Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
  • Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
  • Metagarista maenas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
  • Sarothroceras banaka (Plötz, 1880)

Notodontidae

  • Epicerura tamsi Kiriakoff, 1963
  • Pseudoscrancia africana (Holland, 1893)

Saturniidae

  • Aurivillius horsini Bouvier, 1927
  • Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
  • Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
  • Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)

Sesiidae

Tineidae

  • Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Syncalipsis typhodes (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Tiquadra cultrifera Meyrick, 1914

Tortricidae

References

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