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There are about 420 known moth species of Saudi Arabia. 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 Saudi Arabia.

Arctiidae

• Apisa arabica Warnecke, 1934
• Apisa canescens Walker, 1855
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Lepista arabica (Rebel, 1907)
• Nyctemera torbeni Wiltshire, 1983
• Siccia arabica Wiltshire, 1983
• Siccia buettikeri Wiltshire, 1988
• Spilosoma feifensis Wiltshire, 1986
• Thyretes buettikeri Wiltshire, 1983
• Utetheisa amhara Jordan, 1939
• Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, 1779)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Autostichidae

• Heringita amselina (Gozmány, 1967)
• Hesperesta arabica Gozmány, 2000
• Turatia arenacella Gozmány, 2000
• Turatia striatula Gozmány, 2000

Brachodidae

• Nigilgia talhouki Diakonoff, 1983
• Phycodes chalcocrossa (Meyrick, 1909)

Carposinidae

• Metacosmesis xerostola Diakonoff, 1983

Choreutidae

• Choreutis aegyptiaca (Zeller, 1867)
• Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857)

Coleophoridae

• Coleophora ammodyta Falkovitsh, 1970
• Coleophora aularia Meyrick, 1924
• Coleophora cyrniella Rebel, 1926
• Coleophora emberizella Baldizzone, 1985
• Coleophora hospitiella Chrétien, 1915
• Coleophora jebeli Baldizzone, 1985
• Coleophora jerusalemella Toll, 1942
• Coleophora lasloella Baldizzone, 1982
• Coleophora nurmahal Toll, 1957
• Coleophora praecipua Walsingham, 1907
• Coleophora sarehma Toll, 1956
• Coleophora saudita Baldizzone, 1985
• Coleophora shadeganensis Toll, 1959
• Coleophora sudanella Rebel, 1916
• Coleophora viettella Toll, 1956

Cosmopterigidae

• Alloclita cerritella (Riedl, 1993)
• Alloclita delozona Meyrick, 1919
• Bifascioides leucomelanella (Rebel, 1917)
• Pseudascalenia riadella Kasy, 1968

Cossidae

• Aethalopteryx wiltshirei Yakovlev, 2009
• Azygophleps sheikh Yakovlev & Saldaitis, 2011
• Meharia acuta Wiltshire, 1982
• Meharia philbyi Bradley, 1952
• Meharia semilactea (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Mormogystia proleuca (Hampson in Walsingham & Hampson, 1896)

Crambidae

• Achyra nudalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Ancylolomia micropalpella Amsel, 1951
• Antigastra catalaunalis (Duponchel, 1833)
• Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794)
• Diaphana indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, 1847
• Euchromius cambridgei (Zeller, 1867)
• Evergestis desertalis (Hübner, 1813)
• Heliothela ophideresana (Walker, 1863)
• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)
• Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée, 1854
• Nomophila noctuella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Palepicorsia ustrinalis (Christoph, 1877)
• Pediasia numidellus (Rebel, 1903)
• Prionapteryx soudanensis (Hampson, 1919)
• Prionapteryx strioliger Rothschild, 1913
• Ptychopseustis ictericalis (Swinhoe, 1885)
• Pyrausta arabica Butler, 1884
• Pyrausta phaenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)
• Uresiphita polygonalis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Elachistidae

• Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)

Gelechiidae

• Athrips irritans (Povolny, 1989)
• Athrips sisterina (Povolny, 1989)
• Ochrodia subdiminutella (Stainton, 1867)
• Parapsectris amseli (Povolny, 1981)
• Parapsectris buettikeri (Povolny, 1986)
• Parapsectris similis (Povolny, 1981)
• Scrobipalpa ergasima (Meyrick, 1916)
• Scrobipalpa vicaria (Meyrick, 1921)

Geometridae

• Brachyglossina sonyae Wiltshire, 1990
• Charissa lequatrei (Herbulot, 1988)
• Chiasmia subcurvaria (Mabille, 1897)
• Cleora pavlitzkiae (D. S. Fletcher, 1958)
• Hemidromodes sabulifera Prout, 1922
• Idaea eremica (Brandt, 1941)
• Idaea granulosa (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Idaea hathor (Wiltshire, 1949)
• Idaea hesuata Wiltshire, 1983
• Idaea illustris (Brandt, 1941)
• Idaea mimetes (Brandt, 1941)
• Idaea sanctaria Staudinger, 1900
• Idaea sordida (Rothschild, 1913)
• Idaea tahamae Wiltshire, 1983
• Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Isturgia disputaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Isturgia sublimbata (Butler, 1885)
• Microloxia ruficornis Warren, 1897
• Neromia pulvereisparsa (Hampson, 1896)
• Palaeaspilates sublutearia (Wiltshire, 1977)
• Phaiogramma discessa (Walker, 1861)
• Platypepla arabella Wiltshire, 1983
• Pseudosterrha rufistrigata (Hampson, 1896)
• Psilocerea arabica Wiltshire, 1983
• Scopula actuaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula adelpharia (Püngeler, 1894)
• Xanthorhoe wiltshirei (Brandt, 1941)
• Zamarada latilimbata Rebel, 1948
• Zamarada minimaria Swinhoe, 1895
• Zamarada torrida D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Gracillariidae

• Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
• Stomphastis conflua (Meyrick, 1914)

Lasiocampidae

• Braura sultani (Wiltshire, 1986)
• Streblote acaciae (Klug, 1829)

Lymantriidae

• Albarracina baui Standfuss, ????
• Casama vilis (Walker, 1865)
• Euproctis cervina Moore, ????

Metarbelidae

• Metarbela taifensis Wiltshire, 1988

Micronoctuidae

• Micronola wadicola Amsel, 1935

Nepticulidae

• Stigmella birgittae Gustafsson, 1985

Noctuidae

• Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Achaea faber Holland, 1894
• Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
• Achaea mercatoria (Fabricius, 1775)
• Achaea trapezoides (Guenée, 1862)
• Acontia albarabica Wiltshire, 1994
• Acontia asbenensis (Rothschild, 1921)
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia binominata (Butler, 1892)
• Acontia crassivalva (Wiltshire, 1947)
• Acontia dichroa (Hampson, 1914)
• Acontia hortensis Swinhoe, 1884
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia lactea Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia leucotrigona (Hampson, 1905)
• Acontia notabilis (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia nubila Hampson, 1910
• Acontia philbyi Wiltshire, 1988
• Acontia semialba Hampson, 1910
• Acontia trabealis (Scopoli, 1973)
• Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia trimaculata Aurivillius, 1879
• Acontia yemenensis (Hampson, 1918)
• Adisura bella Gaede, 1915
• Aegle exsiccata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Agrotis herzogi Rebel, 1911
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis pictifascia (Hampson, 1896)
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Amyna delicata Wiltshire, 1994
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
• Anomis leona (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Antarchaea conicephala (Staudinger, 1870)
• Antarchaea digramma (Walker, 1863)
• Antarchaea erubescens (Bang-Haas, 1910)
• Antarchaea fragilis (Butler, 1875)
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Anumeta spilota (Erschoff, 1874)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
• Athetis gizana Wiltshire, 1986
• Athetis pigra (Guenée, 1852)
• Attatha metaleuca Hampson, 1913
• Aucha polyphaenoides (Wiltshire, 1961)
• Autoba abrupta (Walker, 1865)
• Beihania cuculiella Wiltshire, 1967
• Brevipecten biscornuta Wiltshire, 1985
• Brithysana africana Laporte, 1973
• Calesia xanthognatha Hampson, 1926
• Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
• Callyna figurans Walker, 1858
• Caradrina anomoeosis (Hampson, 1902)
• Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
• Caradrina elongata (Plante, 1997)
• Caradrina pseudocosma (Plante, 1997)
• Caradrina soudanensis (Hampson, 1918)
• Caranilla uvarovi (Wiltshire, 1949)
• Carcharoda yemenicola Wiltshire, 1983
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Clytie devia (Swinhoe, 1884)
• Clytie euryphaea Hampson, 1918
• Clytie infrequens (Swinhoe, 1884)
• Clytie tropicalis Rungs, 1975
• Colobochyla platyzona Lederer,
• Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
• Condica illecta Walker, 1865
• Condica viscosa (Freyer, 1831)
• Cryphia paulina (Staudinger, 1891)
• Ctenoplusia accentifera (Lefèbvre, 1827)
• Ctenoplusia fracta (Walker, 1857)
• Ctenoplusia furcifera (Walker, 1857)
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
• Diadochia stigmatica Wiltshire, 1985
• Drasteria kabylaria (Bang-Haas, 1906)
• Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Dysmilichia pica Wiltshire, 1983
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Eublemma apicipunctalis (Brandt, 1939)
• Eublemma baccalix (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Eublemma bifasciata (Moore, 1881)
• Eublemma cochylioides (Guenée, 1852)
• Eublemma deserti (Rothschild, 1909)
• Eublemma ecthaemata Hampson, 1896
• Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)
• Eublemma khonoides Wiltshire, 1980
• Eublemma pallidula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
• Eublemma parva (Hübner, [1808])
• Eublemma ragusana (Freyer, 1844)
• Eublemma robertsi Berio, 1969
• Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
• Eublemma seminivea Hampson, 1896
• Eublemma siticuosa (Lederer, 1858)
• Eublemma stygiochroa Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma thermobasis Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma tomentalis Rebel, 1948
• Eulocastra alfierii Wiltshire, 1948
• Eutelia mima Prout, 1925
• Feliniopsis consummata (Walker, 1857)
• Feliniopsis hosplitoides (Laporte, 1979)
• Feliniopsis talhouki (Wiltshire, 1983)
• Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Hadena laudeti (Boisduval, ????)
• Hadjina tyriobaphes Wiltshire, 1983
• Haplocestra similis Aurivillius, 1910
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Heterographa pungeleri Bartel, 1904
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• Heteropalpia cortytoides Berio, 1939
• Heteropalpia exarata (Mabille, 1890)
• Heteropalpia profesta (Christoph, 1887)
• Heteropalpia robusta Wiltshire, 1988
• Heteropalpia rosacea (Rebel, 1907)
• Hipoepa fractalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, [1813])
• Hypena varialis Walker, 1866
• Hypotacha boursini Warnecke, 1937
• Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Hypotacha raffaldii Berio, 1939
• Iambiodes postpallida Wiltshire, 1977
• Lacera alope (Cramer, 1780)
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Leucania sicula Treitschke, 1835
• Lithacodia blandula (Guenée, 1862)
• Masalia albiseriata (Druce, 1903)
• Masalia perstriata (Hampson, 1903)
• Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
• Mesoligia algaini Wiltshire, 1983
• Metachrostis quinaria (Moore, 1881)
• Metagarista subcrocea Wiltshire, 1983
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• Mimasura dhofarica Wiltshire, 1985
• Mocis frugalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
• Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Nimasia brachyura Wiltshire, 1982
• Ophiusa dianaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
• Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
• Ozarba algaini Wiltshire, 1983
• Ozarba atrifera Hampson, 1910
• Ozarba debrosi Wiltshire, 1983
• Ozarba mesozonata Hampson, 1916
• Ozarba nyanza (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Ozarba semitorrida Hampson, 1916
• Ozarba socotrana Hampson, 1910
• Ozarba timida Berio, 1940
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma metaleuca Hampson, 1913
• Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808])
• Phytometra hesuensis (Wiltshire, 1983)
• Plusiopalpa dichora Holland, 1894
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Polymixis juditha (Staudinger, 1897)
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Prionofrontia ochrosia Hampson, 1926
• Pseudopseustis beduina (Wiltshire, 1948)
• Pseudozarba mesozona (Hampson, 1896)
• Pseudozarba orthozona Wiltshire, 1985
• Rhynchina albiscripta Hampson, 1916
• Rhynchina revolutalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Rhynchodontodes antistropha (Vári, 1962)
• Scythocentropus inquinata (Mabille, 1888)
• Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
• Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Simyra confusa (Walker, 1856)
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Syngrapha circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Talhoukia feifae Wiltshire, 1986
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Thiacidas adnanensis (Wiltshire, 1980)
• Thiacidas cerurodes (Hampson, 1916)
• Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855
• Thiacidas roseotincta (Pinhey, 1962)
• Thysanoplusia daubei (Boisduval, 1840)
• Thysanoplusia sestertia (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trigonodes exportata Guenée, 1852
• Tytroca leucoptera (Hampson, 1896)
• Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902)
• Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)

Nolidae

• Archinola pyralidia Hampson, 1896
• Arcyophora longivalvis Guenée, 1852
• Arcyophora patricula (Hampson, 1902)
• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• Giaura dakkaki Wiltshire, 1986
• Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912
• Maurilia arcuata (Walker, [1858])
• Neaxestis montivalva Wiltshire, 1986
• Odontestis murina Wiltshire, 1988
• Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Oecophoridae

• Amseloecia arabica Povolny, 1983
• Stathmopoda diplaspis (Meyrick, 1887)

Psychidae

• Psyche luteipalpis Walker, 1870

Pterophoridae

• Agdistis arabica Amsel, 1958
• Agdistis bellissima Arenberger, 1975
• Agdistis frankeniae (Zeller, 1847)
• Agdistis hakimah Arenberger, 1985
• Agdistis nanodes Meyrick, 1906
• Agdistis obstinata Meyrick, 1920
• Agdistis olei Arenberger, 1976
• Agdistis parvella Amsel, 1958
• Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)
• Arcoptilia gizan Arenberger, 1985
• Diacrotricha lanceatus (Arenberger, 1986)
• Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Porrittia imbecilla (Meyrick, 1925)
• Stenodacma wahlbergi (Zeller, 1852)
• Stenoptilia amseli Arenberger, 1990
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Pyralidae

• Anagasta kuehniella (Zeller, 1879)
• Ancylosis faustinella (Zeller, 1867)
• Ancylosis lacteicostella (Ragonot, 1887)
• Ancylosis limoniella (Chrétien, 1911)
• Ancylosis nigritarsea Hampson, 1896
• Ancylosis nubeculella (Ragonot, 1887)
• Ancylosis obscuripunctella Roesler, 1973
• Arenipses sabella Hampson, 1901
• Bazaria pempeliella Ragonot, 1893
• Cadra calidella (Guenée, 1845)
• Emmalocera strigicostella (Hampson, 1896)
• Hypotia rufimarginalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Hypotia vulgaris (Butler, 1881)
• Raphimetopus ablutella (Zeller, 1839)
• Staudingeria partitella Ragonot, 1887
• Staudingeria yerburii (Butler, 1884)
• Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885

Sphingidae

• Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion moorei Jordan, 1926
• Hippotion pentagramma (Hampson, 1910)
• Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823)
• Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)

Tineidae

• Perissomastix nigriceps Warren & Rothschild, 1905
• Trichophaga abruptella (Wollaston, 1858)
• Trichophaga swinhoei (Butler, 1884)

Tortricidae

• Aphelia deserticolor Diakonoff, 1983
• Bactra bactrana (Kennel, 1901)
• Bactra minima Meyrick, 1909
• Bactra simpliciana Chrétien, 1915
• Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
• Cirriphora pharaonana (Kollar, 1858)
• Cochylimorpha lagara (Diakonoff, 1983)
• Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847
• Cryptophlebia melanopoda Diakonoff, 1983
• Cryptophlebia peltastica (Meyrick, 1921)
• Cydia alabastrina Diakonoff, 1983
• Cydia dissulta Diakonoff, 1983
• Cydia melanoptycha Diakonoff, 1983
• Cydia odontica Diakonoff, 1983
• Cydia periclydonia Diakonoff, 1983
• Dasodis cladographa Diakonoff, 1983
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• Endothenia oblongana (Haworth, 1811)
• Fulcrifera leucophaea Diakonoff, 1983
• Fulcrifera refrigescens (Meyrick, 1924)
• Grapholita steringus Diakonoff, 1983
• Gypsonoma riparia Meyrick, 1933
• Lobesia vectis Diakonoff, 1983
• Namasia catoptrica Diakonoff, 1983
• Pammene megalocephala Diakonoff, 1983
• Procrica ammina Diakonoff, 1983
• Protancylis amseli Diakonoff, 1983
• Selania resedana (Obraztsov, 1959)
• Strepsicrates cryptosema Diakonoff, 1983
• Trachysmia jerichoana (Amsel, 1935)

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera fasciata Walsingham, 1896
• Scythris kebirella Amsel, 1935

References

External links

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

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