List of moths of the Gambia

There are about 300 known moth species of the Gambia. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Location of the Gambia

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

Arctiidae

Autostichidae

Bombycidae

Brachodidae

Coleophoridae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

Drepanidae

Elachistidae

Eupterotidae

Gelechiidae

Geometridae

  • Aphilopota otoessa Prout, 1954
  • Chiasmia amarata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Chiasmia angolaria (Snellen, 1872)
  • Chiasmia rectistriaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
  • Chiasmia semitecta (Walker, 1861)
  • Comibaena leucospilata (Walker, 1863)
  • Comostolopsis stillata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Erastria leucicolor (Butler, 1875)
  • Melinoessa fulvata (Drury, 1773)
  • Neromia enotes Prout, 1917
  • Orbamia octomaculata (Wallengren, 1872)
  • Orbamia renimacula (Prout, 1926)
  • Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)
  • Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Scopula internata (Guenée, 1857)
  • Scopula lactaria (Walker, 1861)
  • Scopula latitans Prout, 1920
  • Victoria perornata Warren, 1898
  • Zamarada clavigera D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
  • Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada phrontisaria Swinhoe, 1904

Gracillariidae

Lasiocampidae

  • Leipoxais directa (Walker, 1865)
  • Pachytrina honrathii (Dewitz, 1881)
  • Philotherma unicolor (Walker, 1855)

Lecithoceridae

Lymantriidae

  • Aroa discalis Walker, 1855
  • Crorema mentiens Walker, 1855
  • Dasychira pytna (Druce, 1898)
  • Dasychira remota Druce, 1887
  • Euproctis crocata (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Euproctis producta (Walker, 1863)
  • Euproctis pygmaea (Walker, 1855)
  • Euproctoides acrisia Plötz, 1880
  • Laelia subrosea (Walker, 1855)
  • Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
  • Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855

Lyonetiidae

Metarbelidae

Nepticulidae

Noctuidae

Nolidae

  • Characoma ferrigrisea (Hampson, 1905)
  • Leocyma camilla (Druce, 1887)
  • Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912
  • Neaxestis mesogonia (Hampson, 1905)
  • Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858)
  • Neonegeta zelia (Druce, 1887)
  • Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
  • Selepa leucogonia (Hampson, 1905)
  • Selepa violascens Hampson, 1912

Notodontidae

  • Anaphe panda (Boisduval, 1847)
  • Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
  • Desmeocraera latex (Druce, 1901)
  • Epanaphe carteri (Walsingham, 1885)
  • Epanaphe moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
  • Tricholoba carteri (Druce, 1887)

Oecophoridae

  • Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)
  • Stathmopoda crassella Walsingham, 1891
  • Stathmopoda maculata Walsingham, 1891

Plutellidae

Psychidae

  • Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887

Pterophoridae

Pyralidae

Saturniidae

  • Cirina forda (Westwood, 1849)
  • Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
  • Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1892
  • Tagoropsis flavinata (Walker, 1865)

Sphingidae

Tineidae

  • Autochthonus chalybiellus Walsingham, 1891
  • Dasyses rugosella (Stainton, 1859)
  • Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796)
  • Oxymachaeris niveocervina Walsingham, 1891
  • Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973
  • Phereoeca proletaria (Meyrick, 1921)
  • Sphallestasis creagra (Gozmány, 1968)
  • Sphallestasis cristata (Gozmány, 1967)
  • Tinea atomosella Walker, 1863
  • Tinea taedia Gozmány, 1968
  • Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
  • Trichophaga mormopis Meyrick, 1935

Tortricidae

Uraniidae

  • Dissoprumna erycinaria (Guenée, 1857)

Xyloryctidae

Yponomeutidae

  • Atteva carteri (Walsingham, 1891)
  • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)". Afromoths.
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