Moths of Mali represent only 23 known moth species. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Contents

• Arctiidae
• Geometridae
• Lasiocampidae
• Noctuidae
• Psychidae
• Pterophoridae
• Pyraloidea
• Tineidae
• Tortricidae
• References
• External links

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

Arctiidae

• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)

Geometridae

• Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897

Lasiocampidae

• Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
• Lasiocampa bilineata (Mabille, 1884)
• Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
• Streblote panda Hübner, 1822

Noctuidae

• Abrostola confusa Dufay, 1958
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
• Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
• Acontia semialba Hampson, 1910
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)

Psychidae

• Acanthopsyche carbonarius Karsch, 1900

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)

Pyraloidea

• Analyta calligrammalis Mabille, 1879
• Ancylolomia simplella de Joannis, 1913
• Autocharis marginata Guillermet, 1996
• Biafra concinnella (Ragonot, 1888)
• Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854
• Botyodes diniasalis (Walker, 1859)
• Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892
• Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glyphodes bitriangulalis Gaede, 1917
• Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, 1866)
• Hypsopygia bamakoensis Leraut, 2006
• Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888
• Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
• Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
• Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pardomima callixantha Martin, 1955
• Parotis impia (Meyrick, 1934)
• Patania balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Pioneabathra olesialis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyralis pictalis (Curtis, 1834)
• Pyrausta phoenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
• Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Terastia africana Sourakov, 2015
• Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852
• Ulopeza flavicepsalis Hampson, 1912

Tineidae

• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Endromarmata lutipalpis (Meyrick, 1922)
• Hyperbola pastoralis (Meyrick, 1931)

Tortricidae

• Cosmorrhyncha acrocosma (Meyrick, 1908)

References

• Poltavsky, A.N., Kravchenko, V.D., Traore, M.M., Traore, S.F., Gergely, P., Witt, Th.J., Sulak, H., Beck, R.H.-T., Junnila, A., Revay, E.E., Doumbia, S., Beier, J.C. & Müller, G.C. 2018. Biodiversity and seasonality of Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) in the woody savannah belt in Mali. Israel Journal of Entomology 48 (1): 69–78. Article

External links

• AfroMoths