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There are about 760 known moth species of Sierra Leone. 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 Sierra Leone.

Adelidae

• Nemophora parvella (Walker, 1863)

Anomoeotidae

• Anomoeotes leucolena Holland, 1893
• Anomoeotes tenellula Holland, 1893
• Anomoeotes triangularis Jordan, 1907

Arctiidae

• Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865)
• Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
• Afrasura hyporhoda (Hampson, 1900)
• Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
• Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855)
• Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amata basithyris Hampson, 1914
• Amata divalis (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Amata francisca (Butler, 1876)
• Amata marina (Butler, 1876)
• Amata tomasina (Butler, 1876)
• Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila leucoptera (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila puella (Fabricius, 1793)
• Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)
• Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880
• Amsacta latimarginalis Rothschild, 1933
• Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
• Anapisa preussi (Gaede, 1926)
• Anapisa tristigma (Mabille, 1893)
• Apisa canescens Walker, 1855
• Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
• Asura atricraspeda Hampson, 1914
• Balacra caeruleifascia Walker, 1856
• Balacra humphreyi Rothschild, 1912
• Binna penicillata Walker, 1865
• Binna scita (Walker, 1865)
• Caripodia albescens (Hampson, 1907)
• Caripodia metaleuca Hampson, 1900
• Caryatis phileta (Drury, 1782)
• Caryatis syntomina Butler, 1878
• Ceryx albimacula (Walker, 1854)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Cyana basisticta (Hampson, 1914)
• Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
• Cyana rejecta (Walker, 1854)
• Cyana trigutta (Walker, 1854)
• Disparctia vittata (Druce, 1898)
• Eilema albidula (Walker, 1864)
• Eilema apicalis (Walker, 1862)
• Eilema monochroma (Holland, 1893)
• Epilacydes scita (Walker, 1865)
• Estigmene flaviceps Hampson, 1907
• Estigmene ochreomarginata Bethune-Baker, 1909
• Estigmene unilinea Rothschild, 1910
• Euchromia folletii (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Euchromia hampsoni Seitz, 1926
• Euchromia lethe (Fabricius, 1775)
• Meganaclia perpusilla (Walker, 1856)
• Meganaclia sippia (Plötz, 1880)
• Metarctia burra (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Myopsyche makomensis Strand, 1912
• Myopsyche notoplagia Hampson, 1898
• Neuroxena flammea (Schaus, 1893)
• Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
• Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880)
• Oedaleosia nigricosta Hampson, 1900
• Palaeosiccia punctata Hampson, 1900
• Paralpenus flavicosta (Hampson, 1909)
• Phryganopsis cinerella (Wallengren, 1860)
• Phryganopsis flavicosta Hampson, 1901
• Pseudlepista flavicosta Hampson, 1910
• Pseudothyretes perpusilla (Walker, 1856)
• Pusiola celida (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Radiarctia lutescens (Walker, 1854)
• Rhipidarctia invaria (Walker, 1856)
• Siccia cretata Hampson, 1914
• Siccia paucipuncta Hampson, 1918
• Spilosoma affinis Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma aurantiaca (Holland, 1893)
• Spilosoma batesi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855
• Spilosoma immaculata Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma occidens (Rothschild, 1910)
• Spilosoma quadrilunata (Hampson, 1901)
• Stenarctia abdominalis Rothschild, 1910
• Thyretes negus Oberthür, 1878
• Trichaeta bivittata (Walker, 1864)

Brachodidae

• Nigilgia adjectella (Walker, 1863)
• Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1872)

Cossidae

• Phragmataecia fuscifusa Hampson, 1910
• Xyleutes lunifera (Hampson, 1910)

Crambidae

• Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Anania epipaschialis (Hampson, 1912)
• Anania fusalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Bissetia leucomeralis (Hampson, 1919)
• Charltona albidalis Hampson, 1919
• Chilo mesoplagalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Cirrhochrista saltusalis Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1895)
• Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875)
• Diptychophora minimalis Hampson, 1919
• Eporidia dariusalis Walker, 1859
• Euclasta varii Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973
• Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Lamprosema leucographalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Lygropia amyntusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Mesolia microdontalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Metasia arida Hampson, 1913
• Obtusipalpis albidalis Hampson, 1919
• Orphanostigma fervidalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Palpita elealis (Walker, 1859)
• Patissa rufitinctalis Hampson, 1919
• Pediasia melanerges (Hampson, 1919)
• Phostria hesusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Phostria ledereralis (Strand, 1920)
• Phostria quadriguttata (Walker, 1869)
• Phryganodes biguttata Hampson, 1898
• Platytes duplicilinea (Hampson, 1919)
• Pseudocatharylla argenticilia (Hampson, 1919)
• Pycnarmon cribrata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pycnarmon sexpunctalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Pycnarmon subpictalis (Hampson, 1912)
• Pyrausta approximalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Pyrausta phaenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Scirpophaga ochritinctalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Stemorrhages sericea (Drury, 1773)
• Sufetula nigrescens Hampson, 1912
• Sufetula sufetuloides (Hampson, 1919)
• Syllepte leonalis (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Syllepte torsipex (Hampson, 1898)
• Zebronia phenice (Cramer, 1780)

Drepanidae

• Epicampoptera strandi Bryk, 1913
• Gonoreta opacifinis Watson, 1965
• Gonoreta subtilis (Bryk, 1913)
• Isospidia brunneola (Holland, 1893)
• Negera confusa Walker, 1855
• Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874)
• Spidia fenestrata Butler, 1878
• Spidia planola Watson, 1965
• Spidia subviridis (Warren, 1899)

Elachistidae

• Orophia melicoma (Meyrick, 1931)
• Orophia taurina (Meyrick, 1928)

Eriocottidae

• Compsoctena ursulella (Walker, 1863)

Eupterotidae

• Acrojana sciron (Druce, 1887)
• Acrojana simillima Rothschild, 1932
• Acrojana splendida Rothschild, 1917
• Camerunia orphne (Schaus, 1893)
• Drepanojana fasciata Aurivillius, 1893
• Hoplojana soricis Rothschild, 1917
• Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Jana strigina Westwood, 1849
• Phiala cunina Cramer, 1780
• Phiala odites Schaus, 1893
• Phiala venusta (Walker, 1865)
• Stenoglene giganteus (Rothschild, 1917)
• Stenoglene nivalis (Rothschild, 1917)
• Stenoglene thelda (Druce, 1887)

Gelechiidae

• Dichomeris eurynotus (Walsingham, 1897)
• Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844)

Geometridae

• Aletis helcita (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Allochrostes impunctata (Warren, 1897)
• Antitrygodes dentilinea Warren, 1897
• Apatadelpha biocellaria (Walker, 1863)
• Archichlora viridimacula Warren, 1898
• Bathycolpodes kabaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Bathycolpodes marginata (Warren, 1897)
• Biston abruptaria (Walker, 1869)
• Cartaletis gracilis (Möschler, 1887)
• Chiasmia conturbata (Warren, 1898)
• Chiasmia impar (Warren, 1897)
• Chiasmia ostentosaria (Möschler, 1887)
• Chiasmia rectistriaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
• Chiasmia streniata (Guenée, 1858)
• Chlorissa afflictaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Chlorissa malescripta (Warren, 1897)
• Chloroclystis sierraria Swinhoe, 1904
• Chlorodrepana angustimargo Warren, 1901
• Coenina aurivena Butler, 1898
• Cyclophora leonaria (Walker, 1861)
• Derambila costipunctata Warren, 1905
• Derambila syllaria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Epigynopteryx fimosa (Warren, 1905)
• Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
• Eucrostes beatificata (Walker, 1863)
• Geodena bandajoma Swinhoe, 1904
• Geodena marginalis Walker, 1856
• Geodena quadrigutta Walker, 1856
• Geodena semihyalina Swinhoe, 1904
• Gonochlora minutaria Swinhoe, 1904
• Heterostegane pleninotata Warren, 1901
• Hyalornis docta (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Idaea macrostyla (Warren, 1900)
• Idaea pulveraria (Snellen, 1872)
• Idaea submaculata (Warren, 1898)
• Idiochlora approximans (Warren, 1897)
• Larentia attenuata (Walker, 1862)
• Lophorrhachia palliata (Warren, 1898)
• Melinoessa aureola Prout, 1934
• Melinoessa fulvata (Drury, 1773)
• Melinoessa perlimbata (Guenée, 1857)
• Melinoessa sodaliata (Walker, 1862)
• Mesocolpia marmorata (Warren, 1899)
• Mesothisa flaccida Warren, 1905
• Metallospora catori Warren, 1905
• Miantochora incolorata Warren, 1899
• Miantochora venerata (Mabille, 1879)
• Mimaletis albipennis Warren, 1905
• Narthecusa tenuiorata Walker, 1862
• Neostega flaviguttata Warren, 1903
• Oxyfidonia fulvida Warren, 1905
• Oxyfidonia insolita (Warren, 1905)
• Paramilionia rubroplagata Bethune-Baker, 1906
• Perithalera oblongata (Warren, 1898)
• Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Pingasa ruginaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Pitthea continua Walker, 1854
• Pitthea famula Drury, 1773
• Pitthea rubriplaga Warren, 1897
• Plegapteryx anomalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
• Problepsis digammata Kirby, 1896
• Problepsis flavistigma Swinhoe, 1904
• Problepsis ochripicta Warren, 1901
• Scopula cervinata (Warren, 1905)
• Scopula inscriptata (Walker, 1863)
• Scopula lactaria (Walker, 1861)
• Scopula laevipennis (Warren, 1897)
• Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
• Scopula natalica (Butler, 1875)
• Scopula ossicolor (Warren, 1897)
• Scopula planipennis (Warren, 1900)
• Scopula pseudophema Prout, 1920
• Scopula serena Prout, 1920
• Somatina impunctulata (Warren, 1901)
• Somatina nucleata Warren, 1905
• Somatina subviridata Warren, 1901
• Somatina virginalis Prout, 1917
• Terina renifera Warren, 1897
• Terina subfulva (Warren, 1905)
• Thalassodes dentatilinea Prout, 1912
• Thenopa nigraria (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Thetidia undulilinea (Warren, 1905)
• Traminda obversata (Walker, 1861)
• Unnamed genus Ennominae penumbrata (Warren, 1905)
• Xenochroma salsa (Warren, 1897)
• Xenostega tincta Warren, 1899
• Zamarada acrochra Prout, 1928
• Zamarada adumbrata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada amymone Prout, 1934
• Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada clementi Herbulot, 1975
• Zamarada corroborata Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada cydippe Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
• Zamarada eucharis (Drury, 1782)
• Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
• Zamarada euphrosyne Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada flavicosta Warren, 1897
• Zamarada ilaria Swinhoe, 1904
• Zamarada indicata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada ixiaria Swinhoe, 1904
• Zamarada labifera Prout, 1915
• Zamarada leona Gaede, 1915
• Zamarada lepta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada mimesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
• Zamarada perlepidata (Walker, 1863)
• Zamarada platycephala D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada protrusa Warren, 1897
• Zamarada reflexaria (Walker, 1863)
• Zamarada regularis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada sicula D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada subinterrupta Gaede, 1915
• Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Glyphipterigidae

• Glyphipterix gemmatella (Walker, 1864)

Gracillariidae

• Acrocercops eurhythmopa Meyrick, 1934
• Acrocercops leucostega (Meyrick, 1932)
• Acrocercops siphonaula Meyrick, 1931
• Spulerina hexalocha (Meyrick, 1912)

Himantopteridae

• Pseudothymara staudingeri (Rogenhofer, 1888)

Hyblaeidae

• Hyblaea tenuis Walker, 1866

Immidae

• Imma acroptila Meyrick, 1906

Lasiocampidae

• Cheligium lineatum (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Chrysopsyche mirifica (Butler, 1878)
• Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
• Eucraera magna (Aurivillius, 1908)
• Filiola dogma Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
• Filiola fulgurata (Aurivillius, 1909)
• Filiola lanceolata (Hering, 1932)
• Gelo calcarales Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Gonometa nysa Druce, 1887
• Gonopacha brotoessa (Holland, 1893)
• Lechriolepis citrina Schaus, 1897
• Lechriolepis heres Schaus, 1912
• Leipoxais directa (Walker, 1865)
• Leipoxais marginepunctata Holland, 1893
• Mimopacha cinerascens (Holland, 1893)
• Morongea lampara Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Morongea mastodont Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Odontocheilopteryx conzolia Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
• Oplometa cassandra (Druce, 1887)
• Philotherma sordida Aurivillius, 1905
• Schausinna clementsi (Schaus, 1897)
• Stenophatna dentata (Aurivillius, 1899)
• Stoermeriana basale (Walker, 1855)
• Stoermeriana cervina (Aurivillius, 1927)
• Streblote postalbidum Schaus
• Streblote splendens (Druce, 1887)

Limacodidae

• Altha rubrifusalis Hampson, 1910
• Brachiopsis conjunctoides Hering, 1933
• Cosuma rugosa Walker, 1855
• Latoia canescens (Walker, 1855)
• Latoia picta (Walker, 1855)
• Miresa gliricidiae Hering, 1933
• Natada desperata Hering, 1928
• Niphadolepis seleniphora Hering, 1933
• Parasa semiochracea Hering, 1933
• Susica molybdea Hampson, 1910
• Trachyptena nigromaculata Hering, 1928
• Zinara ploetzi Schaus & Clements, 1893

Lymantriidae

• Aroa danva Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Aroa leonensis Hampson, 1910
• Batella lampra (Hering, 1926)
• Batella muscosa (Holland, 1893)
• Conigephyra discolepia (Hampson, 1910)
• Crorema mentiens Walker, 1855
• Dasychira bacchans (Karsch, 1898)
• Dasychira citana (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Dasychira goodii (Holland, 1893)
• Dasychira leucogramma Hampson, 1910
• Dasychira lulua Collenette, 1937
• Dasychira robusta (Walker, 1855)
• Dasychira suspecta Hering, 1926
• Dasychira thermoplaga Hampson, 1910
• Dasychira ticana Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Eudasychira georgiana (Fawcett, 1900)
• Euproctis conizona Collenette, 1933
• Euproctis consocia Walker, 1865
• Euproctis discipuncta (Holland, 1893)
• Euproctis pygmaea (Walker, 1855)
• Griveaudyria ila (Swinhoe, 1904)
• Heteronygmia manicata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Knappetra fasciata (Walker, 1855)
• Laelia dochmia Collenette, 1960
• Laelia eutricha Collenette, 1931
• Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Laelia rosea Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Laelia subrosea (Walker, 1855)
• Leucoma luteipes (Walker, 1855)
• Marbla divisa (Walker, 1855)
• Marblepsis flabellaria (Fabricius, 1787)
• Naroma signifera Walker, 1856
• Naroma varipes (Walker, 1865)
• Neomardara africana (Holland, 1893)
• Olene basalis (Walker, 1855)
• Otroeda aino (Bryk, 1915)
• Otroeda cafra (Drury, 1780)
• Otroeda hesperia (Cramer, 1779)
• Otroeda nerina (Drury, 1780)
• Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
• Paramarbla indentata (Holland, 1893)
• Pseudostracilla infausta Hering, 1926
• Rahona ladburyi (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Somatoxena lasea (Druce, 1899)

Metarbelidae

• Haberlandia rabiusi Lehmann, 2011
• Melisomimas metallica Hampson, 1914
• Ortharbela obliquifascia (Hampson, 1910)
• Paralebedella schultzei (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
• Teragra angulifascia Gaede, 1929
• Teragra umbrifera Hampson, 1910

Noctuidae

• Achaea albicilia (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea albifimbria (Walker, 1869)
• Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)
• Achaea catocaloides Guenée, 1852
• Achaea echo (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea ezea (Cramer, 1779)
• Achaea faber Holland, 1894
• Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
• Achaea illustrata Walker, 1858
• Achaea indicabilis Walker, 1858
• Achaea intercisa Walker, 1865
• Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833)
• Achaea occidens (Hampson, 1913)
• Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia glaphyra Holland, 1894
• Acontia hemiselenias (Hampson, 1918)
• Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
• Acrapex spoliata (Walker, 1863)
• Agoma trimenii (Felder, 1874)
• Agrotis talda (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Amblyprora magnifica (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Anachrostis metaphaea Hampson, 1926
• Anigraea siccata (Hampson, 1905)
• Anomis fulvida Guenée, 1852
• Anomis leona (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Araeopteron canescens (Walker, 1865)
• Araeopteron griseata Hampson, 1907
• Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Aspidifrontia hemileuca (Hampson, 1909)
• Athyrma discimacula Hampson, 1926
• Audea endophaea Hampson, 1913
• Authadistis nyctichroa Hampson, 1926
• Autoba brachygonia (Hampson, 1910)
• Avitta atripuncta Hampson, 1926
• Blasticorhinus trichopoda Hampson, 1926
• Brithodes bathisalis (Walker, 1859)
• Caligatus angasii Wing, 1850
• Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
• Campydelta campyla (Hampson, 1909)
• Cerynea trichobasis Hampson, 1910
• Condica pauperata (Walker, 1858)
• Cophanta occidentalis Hampson, 1910
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Cretonia platyphaeella Walker, 1866
• Cyligramma amblyops Mabille, 1891
• Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773)
• Cyligramma limacina (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Dysgonia abnegans (Walker, 1858)
• Dysgonia conjunctura (Walker, 1858)
• Dysgonia humilis Holland, 1894
• Dysgonia multilineata (Holland, 1894)
• Dysgonia palpalis (Walker, 1865)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Dysgonia trogosema (Hampson, 1913)
• Elaphria plectilis (Guenée, 1852)
• Entomogramma pardus Guenée, 1852
• Episparis fenestrifera Bryk, 1915
• Episparis gomphiona Hampson, 1926
• Ercheia subsignata (Walker, 1865)
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Eublemma albicosta Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma apicipunctum (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Eublemma carneotincta Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma colla (Schaus, 1893)
• Eublemma exigua (Walker, 1858)
• Eublemma ochrochroa Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma orthogramma (Snellen, 1872)
• Eublemma sciaphora Hampson, 1910
• Eudrapa basipunctum Walker, 1858
• Eutelia melanopis Hampson, 1905
• Eutelia nigridentula Hampson, 1905
• Eutelia snelleni Saalmüller, 1881
• Eutelia subrubens (Mabille, 1890)
• Feliniopsis africana (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Feliniopsis gueneei (Laporte, 1973)
• Feliniopsis thoracica (Walker, 1858)
• Gesonia obeditalis Walker, 1859
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliophisma catocalina Holland, 1894
• Heliophisma klugii (Boisduval, 1833)
• Heliophisma xanthoptera (Hampson, 1910)
• Heraclia catori (Jordan, 1904)
• Heraclia geryon (Fabricius, 1781)
• Heraclia hornimani (Druce, 1880)
• Heraclia pallida (Walker, 1854)
• Heraclia terminatis (Walker, 1856)
• Holocryptis melanosticta Hampson, 1910
• Holocryptis permaculata Hampson, 1910
• Hydrillodes janalis Schaus & Clements, 1893
• Hypena ducalis Schaus & Clemens, 1893
• Hypena saltalis Schaus & Clemens, 1893
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypocala tenuis Walker, 1866
• Hypopyra capensis Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
• Hyposada hydrocampata (Guenée, 1858)
• Hyposada juncturalis (Walker, 1866)
• Ilyrgis ethiopica Hampson, 1926
• Leoniloma convergens Hampson, 1926
• Leucania insulicola Guenée, 1852
• Libystica crenata Hampson, 1926
• Libystica eucampima Hampson, 1926
• Lithacodia blandula (Guenée, 1862)
• Lophiophora purpurata (Hampson, 1926)
• Lophoptera litigiosa (Boisduval, 1833)
• Marcipa secticona Hampson, 1926
• Marcipa talusina (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Massaga hesparia (Cramer, 1775)
• Massaga maritona Butler, 1868
• Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
• Melionica bertha (Schaus, 1893)
• Metagarista aziyade Vuillot, 1892
• Metagarista maenas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
• Metagarista triphaenoides Walker, 1854
• Mimasura asticta Hampson, 1910
• Mimasura disticta Hampson, 1910
• Miniodes discolor Guenée, 1852
• Miniodes phaeosoma Hampson, 1913
• Mitrophrys magna (Walker, 1854)
• Mitrophrys menete (Cramer, 1775)
• Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Neostichtis nigricostata (Hampson, 1908)
• Oglasa holophaea Hampson, 1926
• Ophiusa conspicienda (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa dilecta Walker, 1865
• Ophiusa rufescens (Hampson, 1913)
• Oruza latifera (Walker, 1869)
• Orygmophora mediofoveata Hampson, 1926
• Pangrapta eucraspeda Hampson, 1926
• Pangrapta seriopuncta Hampson, 1926
• Panilla hadrastis Hampson, 1926
• Parachalciope benitensis (Holland, 1894)
• Parachalciope euclidicola (Walker, 1858)
• Parafodina ectrogia (Hampson, 1926)
• Paralephana consocia Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana costisignata Hampson, 1926
• Phytometra duplicalis (Walker, 1866)
• Phytometra silona (Schaus & Clements, 1893)
• Plecoptera leucosticha Hampson, 1926
• Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860)
• Polytelodes florifera (Walker, 1858)
• Pseudoarcte melanis (Mabille, 1890)
• Pseudogiria hypographa (Hampson, 1926)
• Rhesala moestalis (Walker, 1866)
• Rivula craspisticta Hampson, 1926
• Schausia gladiatoria (Holland, 1893)
• Schausia leona (Schaus, 1893)
• Soloe trigutta Walker, 1854
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera triturata (Walker, 1857)
• Tavia nyctombra Hampson, 1926
• Tavia polycyma Hampson, 1926
• Thiacidas schausi (Hampson, 1905)
• Toana acidalica Hampson, 1910
• Tolna sypnoides (Butler, 1878)
• Tolna versicolor Walker, 1869
• Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
• Ugia rufilinea Hampson, 1926
• Uripao albizonata Hampson, 1926

Nolidae

• Arcyophora polla (Schaus, 1893)
• Blenina chloromelana (Mabille, 1890)
• Blenina miota Hampson, 1905
• Characoma miophora Hampson, 1912
• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
• Hesperothripa dicyma Hampson, 1912
• Leocyma camilla (Druce, 1887)
• Nanarhyncha nolophaea Hampson, 1918
• Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858)
• Negeta mesoleuca (Holland, 1894)
• Neonegeta pollusca (Schaus, 1893)
• Nola flaviciliata (Hampson, 1901)
• Nola furvitincta (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola major Hampson, 1891
• Nola melanoscelis (Hampson, 1914)
• Nola transecta Hampson, 1901
• Pardasena minorella Walker, 1866
• Pardasena roeselioides (Walker, 1858)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• Selepa leucogonia (Hampson, 1905)
• Westermannia agrapha Hampson, 1905

Notodontidae

• Afrocerura leonensis (Hampson, 1910)
• Amphiphalera leuconephra Hampson, 1910
• Antheua rufovittata (Aurivillius, 1901)
• Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
• Antheua trifasciata (Hampson, 1909)
• Antheua vittata (Walker, 1855)
• Atrasana rectilinea (Gaede, 1928)
• Brachychira elegans Aurivillius, 1907
• Catarctia divisa (Walker, 1855)
• Catarctia rothschildi (Kiriakoff, 1955)
• Desmeocraera albicans Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera bitioides (Holland, 1893)
• Diopeithes cyamina Kiriakoff, 1958
• Enomotarcha chloana (Holland, 1893)
• Epidonta brunneomixta (Mabille, 1897)
• Janthinisca flavipennis (Hampson, 1910)
• Lamoriodes metaleuca Hampson, 1910
• Odontoperas archonta Kiriakoff, 1959
• Rasemia citaria (Schaus, 1893)
• Rasemia macrodonta (Hampson, 1909)
• Scalmicauda molestula Kiriakoff, 1959
• Scrancia accipites (Schaus, 1893)
• Stauropussa chloe (Holland, 1893)
• Synete olivaceofusca (Rothschild, 1917)
• Tmetopteryx bisecta (Rothschild, 1917)
• Tricholoba atriclathrata Hampson, 1910
• Ulinella xylostola (Hampson, 1910)
• Utidaviana citana (Schaus, 1893)

Oecophoridae

• Calliphractis phyllograpta Meyrick, 1928
• Epiphractis superciliaris Meyrick, 1930
• Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)

Psychidae

• Acanthopsyche sierricola (White, 1858)
• Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
• Metisa aethiops (Hampson, 1910)

Pterophoridae

• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)

Pyralidae

• Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865
• Endotricha niveifimbrialis Hampson, 1906
• Endotricha vinolentalis Ragonot, 1891
• Palmia adustalis (Hampson, 1917)
• Paraglossa zonalis Hampson, 1906

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
• Aurivillius triramis Rothschild, 1907
• Carnegia mirabilis (Aurivillius, 1895)
• Epiphora boolana Strand, 1909
• Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Imbrasia epimethea (Drury, 1772)
• Lobobunaea acetes (Westwood, 1849)
• Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
• Micragone herilla (Westwood, 1849)
• Micragone nenia (Westwood, 1849)
• Nudaurelia alopia Westwood, 1849
• Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
• Nudaurelia jamesoni (Druce, 1890)
• Nudaurelia mitfordi (Kirby, 1892)
• Nudaurelia staudingeri Aurivillius, 1893
• Nudaurelia xanthomma (Rothschild, 1907)
• Pselaphelia gemmifera (Butler, 1878)
• Pseudobunaea alinda (Sonthonnax, 1899)

Sesiidae

• Camaegeria exochiformis (Walker, 1856)
• Camaegeria monogama (Meyrick, 1932)
• Chamanthedon brillians (Beutenmüller, 1899)
• Chamanthedon striata Gaede, 1929
• Episannina zygaenura (Meyrick, 1933)
• Lepidopoda sylphina Hampson, 1919
• Lophoceps quinquepuncta Hampson, 1919
• Melittia chlorophila (Hering, 1935)
• Paranthrene anthrax Le Cerf, 1916
• Synanthedon rubripicta Hampson, 1919
• Tipulamima nigriceps Hampson, 1919
• Vespaegeria typica Strand, 1913

Sphingidae

• Acanthosphinx guessfeldti (Dewitz, 1879)
• Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Antinephele achlora Holland, 1893
• Antinephele anomala (Butler, 1882)
• Antinephele lunulata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Antinephele maculifera Holland, 1889
• Atemnora westermannii (Boisduval, 1875)
• Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
• Centroctena rutherfordi (Druce, 1882)
• Cephonodes hylas (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Chloroclanis virescens (Butler, 1882)
• Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)
• Hypaedalea butleri Rothschild, 1894
• Hypaedalea insignis Butler, 1877
• Leucostrophus commasiae (Walker, 1856)
• Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823)
• Macropoliana natalensis (Butler, 1875)
• Neopolyptychus pygarga (Karsch, 1891)
• Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)
• Nephele funebris (Fabricius, 1793)
• Nephele oenopion (Hübner, [1824])
• Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776)
• Nephele rectangulata Rothschild, 1895
• Nephele rosae Butler, 1875
• Phylloxiphia bicolor (Rothschild, 1894)
• Phylloxiphia formosa (Schultze, 1914)
• Phylloxiphia goodii (Holland, 1889)
• Phylloxiphia illustris (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906)
• Phylloxiphia oweni (Carcasson, 1968)
• Platysphinx phyllis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Platysphinx vicaria Jordan, 1920
• Polyptychus affinis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Polyptychus andosa Walker, 1856
• Polyptychus anochus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
• Polyptychus carteri (Butler, 1882)
• Polyptychus nigriplaga Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Polyptychus orthographus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Polyptychus retusus Rothschild & Jordan, 1908
• Pseudoclanis occidentalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Pseudoclanis postica (Walker, 1856)
• Pseudoclanis rhadamistus (Fabricius, 1781)
• Rufoclanis rosea (Druce, 1882)
• Temnora crenulata (Holland, 1893)
• Temnora eranga (Holland, 1889)
• Temnora funebris (Holland, 1893)
• Temnora iapygoides (Holland, 1889)
• Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856
• Temnora pseudopylas (Rothschild, 1894)
• Temnora sardanus (Walker, 1856)
• Temnora spiritus (Holland, 1893)
• Temnora stevensi Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
• Theretra jugurtha (Boisduval, 1875)
• Theretra orpheus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)

Thyrididae

• Byblisia albaproxima Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Byblisia latipes Walker, 1865
• Byblisia setipes (Plötz, 1880)
• Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897
• Dysodia vitrina (Boisduval, 1829)
• Dysodia zelleri (Dewitz, 1881)
• Marmax hyparchus (Cramer, 1779)
• Marmax iridea (Mabille, 1892)
• Marmax semiaurata (Walker, 1854)
• Marmax vicaria (Walker, 1854)
• Ninia plumipes (Drury, 1782)
• Striglina clathrata (Hampson, 1897)
• Trichobaptes auristrigata (Plötz, 1880)

Tineidae

• Afrocelestis inanis Gozmány, 1968
• Afrocelestis sacculata Gozmány, 1968
• Agnathosia byrsinopa (Meyrick, 1933)
• Ceratophaga tenebrosa Gozmány, 1968
• Criticonoma doliopis (Meyrick, 1932)
• Crypsithyris concolorella (Walker, 1863)
• Cylicobathra cuspidata (Gozmány, 1968)
• Ecpeptamena esotera Gozmány, 1968
• Edosa endroedyi (Gozmány, 1966)
• Erechthias travestita (Gozmány, 1968)
• Galachrysis armata Gozmány, 1968
• Hyperbola bradleyi Gozmány, 1966
• Hyperbola pastoralis (Meyrick, 1931)
• Machaeropteris euthysana Meyrick, 1931
• Nannotinea holovalva Gozmány, 1968
• Oinophila argyrospora Meyrick, 1931
• Organodesma heptazona (Meyrick, 1931)
• Perissomastix stibarodes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Phalloscardia semiumbrata (Meyrick, 1920)
• Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973
• Phereoeca proletaria (Meyrick, 1921)
• Pitharcha atrisecta (Meyrick, 1918)
• Pitharcha chalinaea Meyrick, 1908
• Semeoloncha penicillata Gozmány, 1968
• Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
• Silosca licziae Gozmány, 1967
• Sphallestasis forficula (Gozmány, 1968)
• Syncalipsis myrmecozelis Gozmány, 1968
• Syncalipsis triangularis Gozmány, 1968
• Tinea atomosella Walker, 1863
• Tinea subalbidella Stainton, 1867

Tortricidae

• Cosmorrhyncha acrocosma (Meyrick, 1908)
• Cydia hemisphaerana (Walsingham, 1897)
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
• Grapholita confertana Walker, 1864
• Mictocommosis microctenota (Meyrick, 1933)
• Olethreutes cybicopa (Meyrick, 1933)
• Proschistis petromacha (Meyrick, 1931)
• Rhodotoxotis arciferana (Mabille, 1900)
• Thaumatotibia batrachopa (Meyrick, 1908)
• Tortrix dinota Meyrick, 1918

Uraniidae

• Dirades theclata (Guenée, 1858)
• Epiplema confuscata Warren, 1909
• Epiplema rotunda Warren, 1909
• Epiplema subdistincta Warren, 1905

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852

Zygaenidae

• Homophylotis catori Jordan, 1907
• Metanycles contracta Walker, 1864
• Saliunca aurifrons Walker, 1864
• Saliunca solora (Plötz, 1880)
• Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)
• Syringura triplex (Plötz, 1880)
• Tascia instructa (Walker, 1854)

See also

• List of butterflies of Sierra Leone
• Wildlife of Sierra Leone

References

External links

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

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