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.

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

Anomoeotidae

 * Anomoeotes infuscata Talbot, 1929

Alucitidae

 * Alucita chloracta (Meyrick, 1908)

Arctiidae

 * Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
 * Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
 * Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)

Cossidae

 * Phragmataecia psyche (Le Cerf, 1919)

Crambidae

 * Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)

Geometridae

 * Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Gracillariidae

 * Acrocercops hedymopa Turner, 1913

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

 * Tipulamima sexualis (Hampson, 1910)
 * Trichocerata bicolor (Le Cerf, 1917)

Tineidae

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

Tortricidae

 * Rubrograptis recrudescentia Razowski, 1981
 * Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)