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.

Contents

• Arctiidae
• Autostichidae
• Bombycidae
• Brachodidae
• Coleophoridae
• Cosmopterigidae
• Cossidae
• Crambidae
• Drepanidae
• Elachistidae
• Eupterotidae
• Gelechiidae
• Geometridae
• Gracillariidae
• Lasiocampidae
• Lecithoceridae
• Lymantriidae
• Lyonetiidae
• Metarbelidae
• Nepticulidae
• Noctuidae
• Nolidae
• Notodontidae
• Oecophoridae
• Plutellidae
• Psychidae
• Pterophoridae
• Pyralidae
• Saturniidae
• Sphingidae
• Tineidae
• Tortricidae
• Uraniidae
• Xyloryctidae
• Yponomeutidae
• External links

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

Arctiidae

• Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865)
• Acanthofrontia atricosta Hampson, 1918
• Aloa moloneyi (Druce, 1887)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amata tomasina (Butler, 1876)
• Amerila fennia (Druce, 1887)
• Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
• Binna scita (Walker, 1865)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Cyana rejecta (Walker, 1854)
• Estigmene unilinea Rothschild, 1910
• Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Euchromia lethe (Fabricius, 1775)
• Logunovium nigricosta (Holland, 1893)
• Madagascarctia madagascariensis (Butler, 1882)
• Oedaleosia nigricosta Hampson, 1900
• Poliosia albida Hampson, 1914
• Pseudothyretes perpusilla (Walker, 1856)
• Spilosoma crossi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma rava (Druce, 1898)
• Thyretes caffra Wallengren, 1863
• Trichaeta bivittata (Walker, 1864)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Autostichidae

• Procometis acutipennis (Walsingham, 1891)

Bombycidae

• Racinoa ianthe (Druce, 1887)

Brachodidae

• Nigilgia albitogata (Walsingham, 1891)

Coleophoridae

• Holcocera irroratella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Licmocera lyonetiella Walsingham, 1891

Cosmopterigidae

• Alloclita gambiella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Anatrachyntis simplex (Walsingham, 1891)
• Cnemidolophus lavernellus Walsingham, 1881
• Macrobathra distincta (Walsingham, 1891)
• Macrobathra fasciata (Walsingham, 1891)

Cossidae

• Macrocossus toluminus (Druce, 1887)

Crambidae

• Bocchoris inspersalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781)
• Calamotropha discellus (Walker, 1863)
• Charltona albimixtalis Hampson, 1919
• Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1895)
• Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Dysallacta negatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854
• Haimbachia proalbivenalis (Błeszyński, 1961)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nausinoe geometralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Notarcha cassualis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita claralis (Walker, 1865)
• Palpita elealis (Walker, 1859)
• Palpita unionalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Pleuroptya aegrotalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Sceliodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Stemorrhages sericea (Drury, 1773)
• Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
• Syllepte sarronalis (Walker, 1859)
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)

Drepanidae

• Negera confusa Walker, 1855
• Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)

Elachistidae

• Ptilobola inornatella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Stenoma complanella (Walsingham, 1891)

Eupterotidae

• Jana tantalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Phiala costipuncta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Vianga tristis Druce, 1896

Gelechiidae

• Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891
• Anarsia inculta Walsingham, 1891
• Brachmia septella (Zeller, 1852)
• Dactylethrella bryophilella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Dichomeris marginata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Dichomeris marmoratus (Walsingham, 1891)
• Onebala zulu (Walsingham, 1881)
• Polyhymno cleodorella Walsingham, 1891
• Prasodryas fracticostella (Walsingham, 1891)
• Thiotricha tenuis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Tricyanaula metallica (Walsingham, 1891)

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

• Acrocercops bifasciata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Lamprolectica apicistrigata (Walsingham, 1891)

Lasiocampidae

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

Lecithoceridae

• Odites carterella Walsingham, 1891
• Odites inconspicua Walsingham, 1891
• Protolychnis marginata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Timyra extranea Walsingham, 1891

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

• Micropostega aeneofasciata Walsingham, 1891

Metarbelidae

• Kroonia carteri Lehmann, 2010

Nepticulidae

• Stigmella birgittae Gustafsson, 1985
• Stigmella zizyphi (Walsingham, 1911)

Noctuidae

• Acanthodelta janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Achaea albicilia (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea ezea (Cramer, 1779)
• Achaea illustrata Walker, 1858
• Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia wahlbergi Wallengren, 1856
• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Anoba remota (Druce, 1887)
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Aspidifrontia hemileuca (Hampson, 1909)
• Audea paulumnodosa Kühne, 2005
• Bareia incidens Walker, 1858
• Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Dysgonia arcifera (Druce, 1912)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Entomogramma mediocris Walker, 1865
• Erebus walkeri (Butler, 1875)
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Ericeia sobria Walker, 1858
• Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Eulocastra monozona Hampson, 1910
• Eutelia callichroma (Distant, 1901)
• Eutelia violescens (Hampson, 1912)
• Godasa sidae (Fabricius, 1793)
• Grammodes geometrica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliophisma klugii (Boisduval, 1833)
• Herpeperas rudis (Walker, 1865)
• Hypena jussalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
• Leucania insulicola Guenée, 1852
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Masalia albiseriata (Druce, 1903)
• Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Masalia nubila (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia terracottoides (Rothschild, 1921)
• Mentaxya rimosa (Guenée, 1852)
• Miniodes discolor Guenée, 1852
• Misa memnonia Karsch, 1895
• Mitrophrys magna (Walker, 1854)
• Mitrophrys menete (Cramer, 1775)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Ophiusa subdiversa (L. B. Prout, 1919)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
• Oraesia emarginata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pandesma quenavadi Guenée, 1852
• Plecoptera reversa (Walker, 1865)
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Polytelodes florifera (Walker, 1858)
• Rhabdophera clathrum (Guenée, 1852)
• Rhynchina leucodonta Hampson, 1910
• Rhynchina tinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Serrodes nigha Guenée, 1852
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)

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

• Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Psychidae

• Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Trichoptilus vivax Meyrick, 1909

Pyralidae

• Ditrachyptera verruciferella (Ragonot, 1888)
• Endotricha vinolentalis Ragonot, 1891
• Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832)
• Faveria dionysia (Zeller, 1846)
• Pempelia interniplagella (Ragonot, 1888)

Saturniidae

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

Sphingidae

• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Coelonia solani (Boisduval, 1833)
• Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion balsaminae (Walker, 1856)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
• Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823)
• Leucostrophus alterhirundo d'Abrera, 1987
• Lophostethus dumolinii (Angas, 1849)
• Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
• Nephele aequivalens (Walker, 1856)
• Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857
• Nephele funebris (Fabricius, 1793)
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Nephele rosae Butler, 1875
• Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856)
• Rufoclanis rosea (Druce, 1882)
• Temnora livida (Holland, 1889)
• Temnora scitula (Holland, 1889)

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

• Ancylis falcata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Ancylis oculifera (Walsingham, 1891)
• Bactra bactrana (Kennel, 1901)
• Bactra endea Diakonoff, 1963
• Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)
• Dichrorampha excisa Walsingham, 1891
• Eccopsis incultana (Walker, 1863)
• Eccopsis nebulana Walsingham, 1891
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• Grapholita dimidiata (Walsingham, 1891)
• Panegyra flavicostana (Walsingham, 1891)
• Paraeccopsis insellata (Meyrick, 1920)
• Phaecasiophora basicornis Walsingham, 1891
• Phaecasiophora variabilis Walsingham, 1891
• Pseudeboda gambiae Razowski, 1964
• Sanguinograptis albardana (Snellen, 1872)
• Syricoris apicipunctana (Walsingham, 1891)

Uraniidae

• Dissoprumna erycinaria (Guenée, 1857)

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera carteri Walsingham, 1889
• Eretmocera fuscipennis Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
• Eretmocera scatospila Zeller, 1852
• Scythris pangalactis Meyrick, 1933
• Scythris subeburnea (Walsingham, 1891)

Yponomeutidae

• Atteva carteri (Walsingham, 1891)

External links

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