List of moths of Togo

The moths of Togo represent about 180 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 Togo.

Anomoeotidae

 * Anomoeotes tenellula Holland, 1893

Arctiidae

 * Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
 * Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
 * Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855)
 * Agylloides asurella Strand, 1912
 * Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
 * Amata waldowi (Grünberg, 1907)
 * Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
 * Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
 * Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910)
 * Amphicallia pactolicus (Butler, 1888)
 * Amsacta flavicostata (Gaede, 1916)
 * Amsacta fuscosa (Bartel, 1903)
 * Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
 * Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
 * Asura craigii (Holland, 1893)
 * Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
 * Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901)
 * Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
 * Cyana togoana (Strand, 1912)
 * Eilema cuneata Strand, 1912
 * Eilema pulverosa Aurivillius, 1904
 * Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880)
 * Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
 * Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
 * Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
 * Nyctemera togoensis (Strand, 1909)
 * Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880)
 * Pusiola hemiphaea (Hampson, 1909)
 * Spilosoma karschi Bartel, 1903
 * Spilosoma semihyalina Bartel, 1903
 * Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903
 * Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, 1865)
 * Thyretes negus Oberthür, 1878
 * Zobida trinitas (Strand, 1912)

Cossidae

 * Phragmataecia pelostema (Hering, 1923)

Crambidae

 * Protinopalpa ferreoflava Strand, 1911

Drepanidae

 * Gonoreta subtilis (Bryk, 1913)
 * Uranometra oculata (Holland, 1893)

Geometridae

 * Disclisioprocta natalata (Walker, 1862)
 * Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
 * Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
 * Idaea prionodonta (Prout, 1932)
 * Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
 * Zamarada clementi Herbulot, 1975
 * Zamarada corroborata Herbulot, 1954
 * Zamarada crystallophana Mabille, 1900
 * Zamarada cucharita D. S. Fletcher, 1974
 * Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
 * Zamarada emaciata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
 * Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
 * Zamarada iobathra Prout, 1932
 * Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
 * Zamarada mimesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
 * Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
 * Zamarada platycephala D. S. Fletcher, 1974
 * Zamarada polyctemon Prout, 1932

Lasiocampidae

 * Eucraera minor (Gaede, 1915)
 * Mimopacha similis Hering, 1935
 * Morongea mastodont Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
 * Odontocheilopteryx maculata Aurivillius, 1905
 * Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
 * Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
 * Pallastica phronema (Hering, 1928)
 * Philotherma sordida Aurivillius, 1905
 * Pseudolyra lineadentata (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
 * Streblote misanum (Strand, 1912)

Limacodidae

 * Cosuma rugosa Walker, 1855
 * Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, 1896
 * Ctenolita epargyra Karsch, 1896
 * Delorhachis nigrivenosa Karsch, 1896
 * Delorhachis viridiplaga Karsch, 1896
 * Halseyia albovenosa (Hering, 1928)
 * Halseyia fimbriata (Karsch, 1896)
 * Halseyia separata (Karsch, 1896)
 * Latoia cineracea (Karsch, 1896)
 * Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
 * Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
 * Latoia phlebodes (Karsch, 1896)
 * Micraphe lateritia Karsch, 1896
 * Niphadolepis nivata Karsch, 1896
 * Niphadolepis soluta Karsch, 1896
 * Parasa ananii Karsch, 1896
 * Parasa euchlora Karsch, 1895
 * Parasa prussi Karsch, 1896
 * Zinara ploetzi Schaus & Clements, 1893

Lymantriidae

 * Aroa achrodisca Hampson, 1910
 * Barobata trocta Karsch, 1895
 * Conigephyra discolepia (Hampson, 1910)
 * Conigephyra sericaria (Hering, 1926)
 * Dasychira achatina Hering, 1926
 * Dasychira albosignata Holland, 1893
 * Dasychira bacchans (Karsch, 1898)
 * Dasychira castor Hering, 1926
 * Dasychira omissa Hering, 1926
 * Dasychira solida (Karsch, 1895)
 * Heteronygmia flavescens Holland, 1893
 * Lacipa quadripunctata Dewitz, 1881
 * Laelia curvivirgata Karsch, 1895
 * Laelia diascia Hampson, 1905
 * Laelia lignicolor Holland, 1893
 * Laelia xyleutis Hampson, 1905
 * Laelioproctis taeniosoma Hering, 1926
 * Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
 * Lymantria vacillans Walker, 1855
 * Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
 * Pseudonotodonta virescens (Möschler, 1887)
 * Stracena oloris (Hering, 1926)
 * Stracena promelaena (Holland, 1893)
 * Viridichirana chlorophila (Hering, 1926)

Metarbelidae

 * Haberlandia togoensis Lehmann, 2011
 * Lebedodes bassa (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
 * Metarbela fumida Karsch, 1896
 * Metarbela micra Karsch, 1896
 * Metarbela onusta Karsch, 1896
 * Moyencharia ochreicosta (Gaede, 1929)
 * Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
 * Teragra insignifica Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae

 * Acontia hemiselenias (Hampson, 1918)
 * Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
 * Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)
 * Acontia veroxanthia Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
 * Aegocera obliqua Mabille, 1893
 * Agoma trimenii (Felder, 1874)
 * Anoba biangulata (Walker, 1869)
 * Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
 * Brevipecten confluens Hampson, 1926
 * Cerocala caelata Karsch, 1896
 * Digama aganais (Felder, 1874)
 * Eublemma tytrocoides Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
 * Feliniopsis kuehnei Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
 * Holoxanthina lutosa (Karsch, 1895)
 * Masalia flavocarnea (Hampson, 1903)
 * Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
 * Misa cosmetica Karsch, 1898
 * Misa memnonia Karsch, 1895
 * Ozarba domina (Holland, 1894)
 * Phaegorista leucomelas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
 * Phaegorista similis Walker, 1869
 * Thiacidas juvenis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
 * Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007

Nolidae

 * Maurilia conjuncta Gaede, 1915

Notodontidae

 * Afrocerura leonensis (Hampson, 1910)
 * Afrocerura leonensis (Hampson, 1910)
 * Afropydna indistincta (Gaede, 1928)
 * Amyops ingens Karsch, 1895
 * Anaphe subsordida Butler, 1893
 * Anaphe venata Butler, 1878
 * Antheua bidentata (Hampson, 1910)
 * Antheua bossumensis (Gaede, 1915)
 * Antheua gallans (Karsch, 1895)
 * Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
 * Bisolita minuta (Holland, 1893)
 * Bisolita strigata (Aurivillius, 1906)
 * Desmeocraera albicans Gaede, 1928
 * Desmeocraera vernalis Distant, 1897
 * Eujansea afra (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
 * Galona serena Karsch, 1895
 * Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910)
 * Phalera atrata (Grünberg, 1907)
 * Rhenea mediata (Walker, 1865)
 * Scrancia stictica Hampson, 1910
 * Subscrancia nigra (Aurivillius, 1904)
 * Utidaviana citana (Schaus, 1893)

Psychidae

 * Acanthopsyche carbonarius Karsch, 1900

Pyralidae

 * Acracona remipedalis (Karsch, 1900)

Saturniidae

 * Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
 * Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
 * Bunaeopsis licharbas (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
 * Imbrasia epimethea (Drury, 1772)
 * Lobobunaea christyi (Sharpe, 1889)
 * Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
 * Micragone agathylla (Westwood, 1849)
 * Micragone rougeriei Bouyer, 2008
 * Nudaurelia alopia Westwood, 1849
 * Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)
 * Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)

Sesiidae

 * Albuna africana Le Cerf, 1917

Sphingidae

 * Temnora radiata (Karsch, 1892)

Thyrididae

 * Byblisia setipes (Plötz, 1880)
 * Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
 * Lelymena misalis Karsch, 1900
 * Marmax hyparchus (Cramer, 1779)
 * Marmax semiaurata (Walker, 1854)
 * Trichobaptes auristrigata (Plötz, 1880)

Tortricidae

 * Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)

Zygaenidae

 * Saliunca aurifrons Walker, 1864
 * Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Syringura triplex (Plötz, 1880)