List of Lepidoptera of Cape Verde

Lepidoptera of Cape Verde represent about 280 known species. A total of 252 moth species have been recorded. Twenty-eight species of butterflies are known from Cape Verde, one of which is endemic. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Hesperiidae

 * Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Coeliades forestan (Stoll, 1782)

Lycaenidae

 * Azanus jesous (Guérin, 1847)
 * Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880) (questionable)
 * Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)
 * Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
 * Deudorix dinomenes Grose-Smith, 1887 (questionable)
 * Euchrysops osiris (Hopffer, 1855)
 * Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Tarucus (Fabricius, 1793)
 * Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

Nymphalidae

 * Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773)
 * Danaus chrysippus (Cramer, 1777)
 * Nymphalis polychloros (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
 * Junonia oenone (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Vanessa vulcania (Godart, 1819)
 * Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Papilionidae

 * Papilio demodocus Esper, 1798

Pieridae

 * Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) (questionable)
 * Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Colias croceus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
 * Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) (questionable)
 * Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) (questionable)
 * Eurema brigitta (Cramer, 1780)
 * Eurema floricola (Boisduval, 1833) (questionable)
 * Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Eurema senegalensis (Boisduval, 1836) (questionable)
 * Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Pontia glauconome Klug, 1829

Satyrinae

 * Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bedelliidae

 * Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Coleophoridae

 * Coleophora creola Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2015

Cosmopterigidae

 * Anatrachyntis simplex (Walsingham, 1891)
 * Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)

Crambidae

 * Achyra coelatalis (Walker, 1859)
 * Achyra nudalis (Hübner, 1796)
 * Cataonia mauritanica Amsel, 1953
 * Condylorrhiza zyphalis (Viette, 1958)
 * Cornifrons ulceratalis Lederer, 1858
 * Cynaeda dentalis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
 * Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
 * Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, 1847
 * Euclasta insularis Viette, 1958
 * Eudonia fogoalis Derra, 2008
 * Eudonia lindbergalis Viette, 1958
 * Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
 * Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
 * Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832)
 * Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
 * Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
 * Notarcha quaternalis (Zeller, 1852)
 * Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)
 * Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
 * Pediasia strenua Bassi, 1992
 * Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

Depressariidae

 * Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)

Erebidae

 * Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
 * Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
 * Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
 * Achaea infinita (Guenée, 1852)
 * Achaea violaceofascia (Saalmüller, 1891)
 * Anomis auragoides (Guenée, 1852)
 * Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
 * Audea melaleuca Walker, 1865
 * Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
 * Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
 * Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
 * Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
 * Eilema aistleitneri Cerny, 2013
 * Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
 * Ericeia inangulata (Guenée, 1852)
 * Eublemma apicimacula (Mabille, 1880)
 * Eublemma baccatrix Hacker, 2019
 * Eublemma cochylioides (Guenée, 1852)
 * Eublemma ecthaemata Hampson, 1896
 * Eublemma exigua (Walker, 1858)
 * Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)
 * Eublemma mesophaea Hampson, 1910
 * Eublemma parva (Hübner, 1808)
 * Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
 * Eublemma spirogramma Rebel, 1912
 * Gesoniodes nigripalpa (Wiltshire, 1977)
 * Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
 * Grammodes congenita Walker, 1858
 * Grammodes exclusiva Pagenstecher, 1907
 * Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Hipoepa fractalis (Guenée, 1854)
 * Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854
 * Hypena conscitalis Walker, 1866
 * Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
 * Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
 * Hypena semilutea (Snellen, 1872)
 * Hypena strigatus (Fabricius, 1798)
 * Hypena varialis Walker, 1866
 * Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
 * Lygephila pastinum (Treitschke, 1826)
 * Maxera marchalii (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
 * Mesogenea varians Hampson, 1902
 * Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858)
 * Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
 * Nodaria externalis Guenée, 1854
 * Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
 * Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
 * Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
 * Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
 * Phytometra melanosticta Hacker, 2016
 * Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
 * Serrodes partita (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
 * Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
 * Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
 * Tathorhynchus leucobasis Bethune-Baker, 1911
 * Tathorhynchus troberti (Guenée, 1852)
 * Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
 * Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902)
 * Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelechiidae

 * Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921
 * Aristotelia benedenii (Weyenbergh, 1873)
 * Brachmia convolvuli (Walsingham, 1907)
 * Helcystogramma lamprostoma (Zeller, 1847)
 * Ornativalva heluanensis (Debski, 1913)
 * Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844)
 * Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
 * Scrobipalpa aptatella (Walker, 1864)
 * Zizyphia cleodorella Chrétien, 1908

Geometridae

 * Chiasmia sudanata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
 * Comibaena leucospilata (Walker, 1863)
 * Comostolopsis stillata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
 * Eucrostes beatificata (Walker, 1863)
 * Eucrostes disparata Walker, 1861
 * Gymnoscelis daniloi Hausmann, 2009
 * Gymnoscelis lindbergi Herbulot, 1957
 * Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1858)
 * Isturgia deerraria (Walker, 1861)
 * Mesocolpia nanula (Mabille, 1900)
 * Microloxia aistleitneri Hausmann, 2009
 * Microloxia herbaria (Hübner, 1818)
 * Microloxia ruficornis Warren, 1897
 * Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
 * Pasiphila derasata (Bastelberger, 1905)
 * Phaiogramma faustinata (Millière, 1868)
 * Pingasa hypoleucaria (Guenée, 1862)
 * Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)
 * Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
 * Prasinocyma germinaria (Guenée, 1857)
 * Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Scopula paneliusi Herbulot, 1957
 * Scopula retracta (Hausmann, 2006)
 * Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1858
 * Traminda vividaria (Walker, 1861)

Gracillariidae

 * Caloptilia soyella (van Deventer, 1904)
 * Phodoryctis caerulea (Meyrick, 1912)

Noctuidae

 * Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
 * Acontia conifrons Aurivillius, 1879
 * Acontia feae (Berio, 1937)
 * Acontia gratiosa Wallengren, 1856
 * Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
 * Acontia insocia (Walker, 1858)
 * Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
 * Adisura callima Bethune-Baker, 1911
 * Agrotis aistleitneri Behounek & Speidel, 2009
 * Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
 * Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
 * Agrotis spinifera (Hübner, 1808)
 * Agrotis subspinifera (Hampson, 1903)
 * Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)
 * Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
 * Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
 * Androlymnia clavata Hampson, 1910
 * Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
 * Athetis ochreosignata Aurivillius, 1910
 * Athetis pigra (Guenée, 1852)
 * Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
 * Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
 * Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
 * Caradrina flava Oberthür, 1876
 * Chasmina tibialis (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Chasmina vestae (Guenée, 1852)
 * Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858)
 * Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1798)
 * Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
 * Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
 * Condica pauperata (Walker, 1858)
 * Cornutiplusia circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
 * Euxoa admirabilis Hacker & Schreier, 2010
 * Euxoa canariensis Rebel, 1902
 * Haplocestra similis Aurivillius, 1910
 * Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
 * Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
 * Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
 * Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
 * Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
 * Hiccoda pluristriata (Berio, 1937)
 * Iambiodes incerta (Rothschild, 1913)
 * Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
 * Maliattha sahelica Hacker, 2016
 * Maliattha signifera (Walker, 1857)
 * Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
 * Mythimna natalensis (Butler, 1875)
 * Mythimna poliastis (Hampson, 1902)
 * Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller, 1891)
 * Mythimna vilis (Gaede, 1916)
 * Oederemia simplivalva Hacker & Schreier, 2010
 * Ozarba adducta Berio, 1940
 * Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940
 * Ozarba phlebitis Hampson, 1910
 * Ozarba rubrivena Hampson, 1910
 * Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
 * Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
 * Pseudozarba bipartita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850)
 * Pseudozarba expatriata (Hampson, 1914)
 * Pseudozarba opella (Swinhoe, 1885)
 * Saalmuellerana media (Walker, 1857)
 * Sesamia calamistis Hampson, 1910
 * Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
 * Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
 * Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
 * Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803)
 * Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)
 * Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Nolidae

 * Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
 * Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
 * Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
 * Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)

Plutellidae

 * Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Praydidae

 * Prays citri (Millière, 1873)

Pterophoridae

 * Agdistis bifurcatus Agenjo, 1952
 * Agdistis notabilis Gielis & Karsholt, 2009
 * Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)
 * Exelastis atomosa (Walsingham, 1885)
 * Exelastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
 * Hellinsia aistleitneri Arenberger, 2006
 * Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)
 * Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
 * Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
 * Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Pyralidae

 * Cadra figulilella (Gregson, 1871)
 * Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
 * Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Millière, 1867)
 * Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)
 * Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832)
 * Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Phycita pachylepidella Hampson, 1896
 * Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)
 * Susia uberalis (Swinhoe, 1884)
 * Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885

Scythrididae

 * Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
 * Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
 * Scythris fissurella Bengtsson, 1997

Sphingidae

 * Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
 * Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)
 * Hyles tithymali (Boisduval, 1834)
 * Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)

Tineidae

 * Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)

Tortricidae

 * Ancylis lutescens Meyrick, 1912
 * Coniostola stereoma (Meyrick, 1912)
 * Cydia choleropa (Meyrick, 1913)
 * Eccopsis praecedens Walsingham, 1897
 * Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
 * Fulcrifera boavistae Razowski, 2015
 * Strepsicrates rhothia (Meyrick, 1910)
 * Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)