There are about 420 known moth species of Equatorial Guinea. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Contents

• Alucitidae
• Anomoeotidae
• Arctiidae
• Brahmaeidae
• Choreutidae
• Copromorphidae
• Cossidae
• Crambidae
• Drepanidae
• Elachistidae
• Eupterotidae
• Gelechiidae
• Geometridae
• Hyblaeidae
• Lasiocampidae
• Limacodidae
• Lymantriidae
• Metarbelidae
• Noctuidae
• Nolidae
• Notodontidae
• Oecophoridae
• Psychidae
• Pterophoridae
• Pyralidae
• Saturniidae
• Sesiidae
• Sphingidae
• Thyrididae
• Tortricidae
• Uraniidae
• Xyloryctidae
• Zygaenidae
• References
• External links

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

Alucitidae

• Alucita plumigera (Strand, 1913)

Anomoeotidae

• Anomoeotes leucolena Holland, 1893
• Anomoeotes separatula Strand, 1913
• Anomoeotes tenellula Holland, 1893
• Staphylinochrous heringi Alberti, 1954

Arctiidae

• Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
• Afrasura indecisa (Walker, 1869)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amerila nigroapicalis (Aurivillius, 1900)
• Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)
• Anapisa connexa (Walker, 1854)
• Archilema uelleburgensis (Strand, 1912)
• Archithosia costimacula (Mabille, 1878)
• Archithosia flavifrontella (Strand, 1912)
• Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912)
• Asura craigii (Holland, 1893)
• Balacra elegans Aurivillius, 1892
• Balacra flavimacula Walker, 1856
• Balacra preussi (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892
• Balacra rubricincta Holland, 1893
• Ceryx albimacula (Walker, 1854)
• Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901)
• Cyana flammeostrigata Karisch, 2003
• Cyana heidrunae (Hoppe, 2004)
• Cyana torrida (Holland, 1893)
• Dubatolovia neurophaea (Hampson, 1911)
• Epilacydes simulans Butler, 1875
• Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Euchromia lethe (Fabricius, 1775)
• Kiriakoffalia guineae (Strand, 1912)
• Metarctia benitensis Holland, 1893
• Nacliodes microsippia Strand, 1912
• Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880)
• Neuroxena fulleri (Druce, 1883)
• Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
• Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera chromis Druce, 1882
• Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
• Ovenna guineacola (Strand, 1912)
• Ovenna subgriseola (Strand, 1912)
• Pseudothyretes nigrita (Kiriakoff, 1961)
• Pseudothyretes rubicundula (Strand, 1912)
• Pusiola celida (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Radiarctia lutescens (Walker, 1854)
• Rhipidarctia flaviceps (Hampson, 1898)
• Spilosoma aurantiaca (Holland, 1893)
• Spilosoma rava (Druce, 1898)
• Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903
• Tesma nigrapex (Strand, 1912)

Brahmaeidae

• Dactyloceras canui Bouyer, 2002

Choreutidae

• Brenthia octogemmifera Walsingham, 1897

Copromorphidae

• Rhynchoferella hoppei Mey, 2007

Cossidae

• Eulophonotus elegans (Aurivillius, 1910)
• Holcoceroides ferrugineotincta Strand, 1913
• Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1913

Crambidae

• Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Argyractis limalis Viette, 1957
• Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854
• Bradina sordidalis (Dewitz, 1881)
• Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Chilo aleniella (Strand, 1913)
• Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875)
• Eoophyla alba Mey, 2009
• Eporidia dariusalis Walker, 1859
• Glyphandra biincisalis Karsch, 1900
• Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Metoeca foedalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)
• Orphanostigma fervidalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Orphanostigma latimarginalis (Walker, 1859)
• Pardomima distortana (Strand, 1913)
• Phostria erebusalis (Hampson, 1898)
• Pyrausta sexplagialis Gaede, 1917
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Ulopeza alenialis Strand, 1913
• Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852
• Ulopeza panaresalis (Walker, 1859)
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)

Drepanidae

• Epicampoptera difficilis Hering, 1934

Elachistidae

• Cryptolechia viridisignata (Strand, 1913)

Eupterotidae

• Epijana cinerea Holland, 1893
• Epijana cosima (Plötz, 1880)
• Janomima dannfelti (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Stenoglene sulphureotinctus Strand, 1912

Gelechiidae

• Brachmia ditemenitis Meyrick, 1934
• Ptilothyris purpurea Walsingham, 1897

Geometridae

• Aletis helcita (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Asthenotricha amblycoma Prout, 1935
• Asthenotricha fernandi Prout, 1935
• Bathycolpodes semigrisea (Warren, 1897)
• Biston abruptaria (Walker, 1869)
• Biston johannaria (Oberthür, 1913)
• Braueriana karischi Herbulot, 1996
• Chlorodrepana inaequisecta Herbulot, 1999
• Cleora herbuloti D. S. Fletcher, 1967
• Cleora pavlitzkiae (D. S. Fletcher, 1958)
• Collix biokensis Herbulot, 1999
• Collix brevipalpis Herbulot, 1999
• Colocleora smithi (Warren, 1904)
• Comibaena barnsi Prout, 1930
• Conolophia persimilis (Warren, 1905)
• Derambila punctisignata Walker, 1863
• Dioptrochasma ablegata Herbulot, 1996
• Dioptrochasma calderae Herbulot, 1996
• Dioptrochasma mercyi Herbulot, 1956
• Ecpetala camerunica Herbulot, 1988
• Eois alticola (Aurivillius, 1925)
• Epigynopteryx tabitha Warren, 1901
• Epigynopteryx termininota Prout, 1934
• Erastria albosignata (Walker, 1863)
• Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
• Eupithecia calderae Herbulot, 1999
• Eupithecia fernandi Herbulot, 1999
• Eupithecia jeanneli Herbulot, 1953
• Eupithecia karischi Herbulot, 1999
• Eupithecia nigribasis (Warren, 1902)
• Hypochrosis banakaria (Plötz, 1880)
• Hypocoela turpisaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Hypomecis nessa Herbulot, 1995
• Hypomecis quaerenda Herbulot, 2000
• Idaea pulveraria (Snellen, 1872)
• Idiodes pectinata (Herbulot, 1966)
• Megadrepana cinerea Holland, 1893
• Melinoessa aemonia (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Melinoessa amplissimata (Walker, 1863)
• Melinoessa asteria Prout, 1934
• Melinoessa croesaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Menophra bilobata Herbulot, 1995
• Menophra nathaliae Herbulot, 1998
• Mimaletis postica (Walker, 1869)
• Narthecusa tenuiorata Walker, 1862
• Piercia ansorgei (Bethune-Baker, 1913)
• Pingasa dispensata (Walker, 1860)
• Pitthea agenoria Druce, 1890
• Plegapteryx anomalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
• Racotis angulosa Herbulot, 1973
• Racotis zebrina Warren, 1899
• Ramopteryx viridimista Karisch, 2001
• Scopula acidalia (Holland, 1894)
• Scopula anoista (Prout, 1915)
• Scopula conspicillaria Karisch, 2001
• Scopula ectopostigma Prout, 1932
• Scopula herbuloti Karisch, 2001
• Scopula karischi Herbulot, 1999
• Scopula laevipennis (Warren, 1897)
• Scopula obliquifascia Herbulot, 1999
• Scopula pyraliata (Warren, 1898)
• Scopula rectisecta Prout, 1920
• Scopula recurvata Herbulot, 1992
• Scopula sordaria Karisch, 2001
• Scopula suda Prout, 1932
• Scopula valentinella Karisch, 2001
• Terina circumdata Walker, 1865
• Terina doleris (Plötz, 1880)
• Thalassodes dentatilinea Prout, 1912
• Victoria perornata Warren, 1898
• Xanthisthisa extrema Herbulot, 1999
• Xanthorhoe ansorgei (Warren, 1899)
• Xanthorhoe heliopharia (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Xanthorhoe tamsi D. S. Fletcher, 1963
• Xenimpia karischi Herbulot, 1996
• Xenostega tincta Warren, 1899
• Xylopteryx dargei Herbulot, 1984
• Xylopteryx elongata Herbulot, 1984
• Zamarada aurolineata Gaede, 1915
• Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada dentigera Warren, 1909
• Zamarada griseola D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada ixiaria Swinhoe, 1904
• Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada paxilla D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada platycephala D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Hyblaeidae

• Hyblaea occidentalium Holland, 1894

Lasiocampidae

• Braura ligniclusa (Walker, 1865)
• Braura truncatum (Walker, 1855)
• Catalebeda cuneilinea (Walker, 1856)
• Catalebeda discocellularis Strand, 1912
• Cheligium nigrescens (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Chrysopsyche antennifera Strand, 1912
• Eucraera koellikerii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Filiola occidentale (Strand, 1912)
• Gelo anastella Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Gonobombyx angulata Aurivillius, 1893
• Gonometa nysa Druce, 1887
• Lechriolepis nigrivenis Strand, 1912
• Lechriolepis rotunda Strand, 1912
• Lechriolepis tessmanni Strand, 1912
• Leipoxais makomona Strand, 1912
• Leipoxais marginepunctata Holland, 1893
• Leipoxais peraffinis Holland, 1893
• Leipoxais proboscidea (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Leipoxais regularis Strand, 1912
• Leipoxais rufobrunnea Strand, 1912
• Leipoxais siccifolia Aurivillius, 1902
• Mallocampa alenica Strand, 1912
• Mallocampa audea (Druce, 1887)
• Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand, 1912
• Mimopacha brunnea Hering, 1941
• Mimopacha gerstaeckerii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Mimopacha knoblauchii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Odontocheilopteryx maculata Aurivillius, 1905
• Odontocheilopteryx phoneus Hering, 1928
• Odontocheilopteryx pica Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
• Pachymetana custodita (Strand, 1912)
• Pachymetoides stigmatica (Strand, 1911)
• Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
• Pachytrina honrathii (Dewitz, 1881)
• Pallastica meloui (Riel, 1909)
• Philotherma spargata (Holland, 1893)
• Pseudometa concava (Strand, 1912)
• Pseudometa punctipennis (Strand, 1912)
• Stoermeriana makomanum (Strand, 1912)
• Stoermeriana tessmanni (Strand, 1912)
• Streblote guineanum (Strand, 1912)
• Streblote splendens (Druce, 1887)
• Trabala aethiopica (Strand, 1912)
• Trabala burchardi (Dewitz, 1881)

Limacodidae

• Andaingo bicolor (Strand, 1913)
• Anilina plebeia (Karsch, 1899)
• Baria elsa (Druce, 1887)
• Casphalia extranea (Walker, 1869)
• Casphalia nigerrima Holland, 1893
• Compactena hilda (Druce, 1887)
• Compactena secta (Strand, 1913)
• Cosuma rugosa Walker, 1855
• Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, 1896
• Ctenolita argyrobapta Karsch, 1899
• Ctenolita epargyra Karsch, 1896
• Hadraphe aprica Karsch, 1899
• Latoia phlebodes (Karsch, 1896)
• Latoia urda (Druce, 1887)
• Latoiola albipuncta (Holland, 1893)
• Niphadolepis argenteobrunnea Strand, 1913
• Niphadolepis quinquestrigata Strand, 1913
• Parasa trapezoidea Aurivillius, 1900
• Perola secunda (Strand, 1913)
• Phorma pepon Karsch, 1896
• Prolatoia sjostedti (Aurivillius, 1897)
• Stroteroides nigrisignata Strand, 1913
• Tryphax uelleburgensis Strand, 1913

Lymantriidae

• Argyrostagma niobe (Weymer, 1896)
• Barobata trocta Karsch, 1895
• Batella muscosa (Holland, 1893)
• Conigephyra citrona (Hering, 1926)
• Dasychira achatina Hering, 1926
• Dasychira albosignata Holland, 1893
• Dasychira allotria Hering, 1926
• Dasychira chlorobasis Hering, 1926
• Dasychira gloveroides Hering, 1926
• Dasychira goodii (Holland, 1893)
• Dasychira laeliopsis Hering, 1926
• Dasychira perfida (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Dasychira sagittiphora Hering, 1926
• Dasychira sphalera Hering, 1926
• Dasychira strigidentata Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Euproctilla tesselata (Holland, 1893)
• Euproctis apicipuncta (Holland, 1893)
• Euproctis crocata (Boisduval, 1847)
• Euproctis neavei Tams, 1924
• Euproctis parallela (Holland, 1893)
• Euproctis reutlingeri Holland, 1893
• Euproctis tessmanni Hering, 1926
• Hemerophanes diatoma (Hering, 1926)
• Hemerophanes enos (Druce, 1896)
• Laelia lignicolor Holland, 1893
• Laelia mediofasciata (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia pulcherrima (Hering, 1926)
• Laelia thanatos (Hering, 1926)
• Leucoma luteipes (Walker, 1855)
• Leucoma melanochila (Hering, 1926)
• Leucoperina atroguttata Aurivillius, 1909
• Lymantria vacillans Walker, 1855
• Marbla divisa (Walker, 1855)
• Mylantria xanthospila (Plötz, 1880)
• Neomardara africana (Holland, 1893)
• Olene basalis (Walker, 1855)
• Otroeda hesperia (Cramer, 1779)
• Paramarbla azami (Kheil, 1909)
• Terphothrix lanaria Holland, 1893
• Viridichira cameruna (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Viridichira longistriata (Hering, 1926)

Metarbelidae

• Metarbela pygatula Strand, 1913
• Metarbela quadriguttata Aurivillius, 1925
• Metarbela reticulosana Strand, 1913
• Metarbela stivafer Holland, 1893

Noctuidae

• Achaea ezea (Cramer, 1779)
• Amazonides aleuca Prout
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)
• Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
• Callyna decora Walker, 1858
• Carpostalagma viridis (Plötz, 1880)
• Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
• Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Eudocima divitiosa (Walker, 1869)
• Feliniopsis africana (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Feliniopsis annosa (Viette, 1963)
• Feliniopsis baueri Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Feliniopsis connivens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Feliniopsis duponti (Laporte, 1974)
• Feliniopsis ivoriensis (Laporte, 1973)
• Feliniopsis karischi Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Feliniopsis kobesi Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Feliniopsis laportei Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Feliniopsis ligniensis (Laporte, 1973)
• Feliniopsis nigribarbata (Hampson, 1908)
• Feliniopsis parvula Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Godasa sidae (Fabricius, 1793)
• Heliophisma catocalina Holland, 1894
• Heraclia geryon (Fabricius, 1781)
• Heraclia poggei (Dewitz, 1879)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypocala dysdamarta A. E. Prout, 1927
• Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Mocis undata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Parachalciope benitensis (Holland, 1894)
• Parachalciope euclidicola (Walker, 1858)
• Pseudoarcte melanis (Mabille, 1890)
• Rhanidophora aethiops (Grünberg, 1907)
• Soloe trigutta Walker, 1854
• Soloella guttivaga (Walker, 1854)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Thyas parallelipipeda (Guenée, 1852)

Nolidae

• Aiteta escalerai Kheil, 1909

Notodontidae

• Desmeocraera latifasciata Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraerula inconspicuana Strand, 1912
• Galanthella arctipennis (Holland, 1893)
• Gargettoscrancia albolineata (Strand, 1912)
• Peratodonta brunnea Aurivillius, 1904
• Peratodonta olivacea Gaede, 1928
• Phalera atrata (Grünberg, 1907)
• Scalmicauda brevipennis (Holland, 1893)
• Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911)

Oecophoridae

• Eucleodora plumbipictella Strand, 1913
• Oedematopoda bicoloricornis Strand, 1913

Psychidae

• Clania guineensis Strand, 1913
• Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
• Eumeta strandi Bourgogne, 1955
• Monda stupida Strand, 1913

Pterophoridae

• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Megalorhipida tessmanni Strand, 1913
• Platyptilia benitensis Strand, 1913
• Platyptilia molopias Meyrick, 1906
• Platyptilia pygmaeana Strand, 1913
• Platyptiliodes albisignatula (Strand, 1913)
• Pterophorus virgo (Strand, 1913)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)

Pyralidae

• Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865
• Sabormania pia Strand, 1913

Saturniidae

• Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
• Goodia hierax Jordan, 1922
• Goodia obscuripennis Strand, 1912
• Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
• Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
• Ludia delegorguei (Boisduval, 1847)
• Ludia tessmanni Strand, 1911
• Micragone lichenodes (Holland, 1893)
• Orthogonioptilum adiegetum Karsch, 1892
• Pselaphelia gemmifera (Butler, 1878)
• Pseudantheraea discrepans (Butler, 1878)

Sesiidae

• Adixoana auripyga Strand, 1913
• Aegeria alenicum (Strand, 1913)
• Chamanthedon brillians (Beutenmüller, 1899)
• Conopia alenicola (Strand, 1913)
• Conopia guineabia (Strand, 1913)
• Macrotarsipus africanus (Beutenmüller, 1899)
• Melittia oedipus Oberthür, 1878
• Vespaegeria typica Strand, 1913

Sphingidae

• Falcatula falcata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
• Neopolyptychus prionites (Rothschild & Jordan, 1916)
• Polyptychoides digitatus (Karsch, 1891)
• Pseudoclanis rhadamistus (Fabricius, 1781)
• Temnora livida (Holland, 1889)

Thyrididae

• Byblisia setipes (Plötz, 1880)
• Heteroschista nigranalis Warren, 1903
• Marmax hyparchus (Cramer, 1779)
• Nemea eugrapha (Hampson, 1906)
• Nemea tamsi Whalley, 1971
• Ninia plumipes (Drury, 1782)
• Rhodoneura sordidula (Plötz, 1880)
• Striglina rothi Warren, 1898
• Striglina strigifera (Strand, 1913)
• Symphleps signicostata (Strand, 1913)
• Trichobaptes auristrigata (Plötz, 1880)

Tortricidae

• Cnephasia quentini Karisch, 2008
• Enarmoniodes praetextana (Walsingham, 1897)
• Goniotorna valentini Karisch, 2008
• Idiothauma africanum Walsingham, 1897
• Lozotaenia basilea Karisch, 2008
• Mictocommosis argus (Walsingham, 1897)
• Pandemis isotetras (Meyrick, 1934)
• Sanguinograptis albardana (Snellen, 1872)
• Tortrix benitonensis Strand, 1913
• Xenosocia oreomontana Karisch, 2008

Uraniidae

• Aploschema albaria (Plötz, 1880)
• Dissoprumna erycinaria (Guenée, 1857)

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera alenica Strand, 1913
• Eretmocera benitonis Strand, 1913
• Eretmocera pachypennis Strand, 1913

Zygaenidae

• Metanycles sachtlebeni Alberti, 1954
• Saliunca aurifrons Walker, 1864
• Saliunca flavifrons (Plötz, 1880)
• Saliunca mimetica Jordan, 1907
• Saliunca nkolentangensis Strand, 1913
• Saliunca solora (Plötz, 1880)
• Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)

References

External links

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