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The moths of Togo represent about 180 known moth species. 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 Togo.

Anomoeotidae

• Anomoeotes tenellula Holland, 1893

Arctiidae

• Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855)
• Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
• Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855)
• Agylloides asurella Strand, 1912
• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amata waldowi (Grünberg, 1907)
• Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910)
• Amphicallia pactolicus (Butler, 1888)
• Amsacta flavicostata (Gaede, 1916)
• Amsacta fuscosa (Bartel, 1903)
• Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
• Argina leonina (Walker, 1865)
• Asura craigii (Holland, 1893)
• Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901)
• Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
• Cyana togoana (Strand, 1912)
• Eilema cuneata Strand, 1912
• Eilema pulverosa Aurivillius, 1904
• Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880)
• Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882
• Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera perspicua (Walker, 1854)
• Nyctemera togoensis (Strand, 1909)
• Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880)
• Pusiola hemiphaea (Hampson, 1909)
• Spilosoma karschi Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma semihyalina Bartel, 1903
• Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903
• Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, 1865)
• Thyretes negus Oberthür, 1878
• Zobida trinitas (Strand, 1912)

Cossidae

• Phragmataecia pelostema (Hering, 1923)

Crambidae

• Protinopalpa ferreoflava Strand, 1911

Drepanidae

• Gonoreta subtilis (Bryk, 1913)
• Uranometra oculata (Holland, 1893)

Geometridae

• Disclisioprocta natalata (Walker, 1862)
• Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
• Ereunetea minor (Holland, 1893)
• Idaea prionodonta (Prout, 1932)
• Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada clementi Herbulot, 1975
• Zamarada corroborata Herbulot, 1954
• Zamarada crystallophana Mabille, 1900
• Zamarada cucharita D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909
• Zamarada emaciata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
• Zamarada iobathra Prout, 1932
• Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
• Zamarada mimesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
• Zamarada platycephala D. S. Fletcher, 1974
• Zamarada polyctemon Prout, 1932

Lasiocampidae

• Eucraera minor (Gaede, 1915)
• Mimopacha similis Hering, 1935
• Morongea mastodont Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
• Odontocheilopteryx maculata Aurivillius, 1905
• Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
• Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
• Pallastica phronema (Hering, 1928)
• Philotherma sordida Aurivillius, 1905
• Pseudolyra lineadentata (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Streblote misanum (Strand, 1912)

Limacodidae

• Cosuma rugosa Walker, 1855
• Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, 1896
• Ctenolita epargyra Karsch, 1896
• Delorhachis nigrivenosa Karsch, 1896
• Delorhachis viridiplaga Karsch, 1896
• Halseyia albovenosa (Hering, 1928)
• Halseyia fimbriata (Karsch, 1896)
• Halseyia separata (Karsch, 1896)
• Latoia cineracea (Karsch, 1896)
• Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
• Latoia nivosa (Felder, 1874)
• Latoia phlebodes (Karsch, 1896)
• Micraphe lateritia Karsch, 1896
• Niphadolepis nivata Karsch, 1896
• Niphadolepis soluta Karsch, 1896
• Parasa ananii Karsch, 1896
• Parasa euchlora Karsch, 1895
• Parasa prussi Karsch, 1896
• Zinara ploetzi Schaus & Clements, 1893

Lymantriidae

• Aroa achrodisca Hampson, 1910
• Barobata trocta Karsch, 1895
• Conigephyra discolepia (Hampson, 1910)
• Conigephyra sericaria (Hering, 1926)
• Dasychira achatina Hering, 1926
• Dasychira albosignata Holland, 1893
• Dasychira bacchans (Karsch, 1898)
• Dasychira castor Hering, 1926
• Dasychira omissa Hering, 1926
• Dasychira solida (Karsch, 1895)
• Heteronygmia flavescens Holland, 1893
• Lacipa quadripunctata Dewitz, 1881
• Laelia curvivirgata Karsch, 1895
• Laelia diascia Hampson, 1905
• Laelia lignicolor Holland, 1893
• Laelia xyleutis Hampson, 1905
• Laelioproctis taeniosoma Hering, 1926
• Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
• Lymantria vacillans Walker, 1855
• Paqueta chloroscia (Hering, 1926)
• Pseudonotodonta virescens (Möschler, 1887)
• Stracena oloris (Hering, 1926)
• Stracena promelaena (Holland, 1893)
• Viridichirana chlorophila (Hering, 1926)

Metarbelidae

• Haberlandia togoensis Lehmann, 2011
• Lebedodes bassa (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Metarbela fumida Karsch, 1896
• Metarbela micra Karsch, 1896
• Metarbela onusta Karsch, 1896
• Moyencharia ochreicosta (Gaede, 1929)
• Salagena transversa Walker, 1865
• Teragra insignifica Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae

• Acontia hemiselenias (Hampson, 1918)
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)
• Acontia veroxanthia Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• Aegocera obliqua Mabille, 1893
• Agoma trimenii (Felder, 1874)
• Anoba biangulata (Walker, 1869)
• Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
• Brevipecten confluens Hampson, 1926
• Cerocala caelata Karsch, 1896
• Digama aganais (Felder, 1874)
• Eublemma tytrocoides Hacker & Hausmann, 2010
• Feliniopsis kuehnei Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Holoxanthina lutosa (Karsch, 1895)
• Masalia flavocarnea (Hampson, 1903)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Misa cosmetica Karsch, 1898
• Misa memnonia Karsch, 1895
• Ozarba domina (Holland, 1894)
• Phaegorista leucomelas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
• Phaegorista similis Walker, 1869
• Thiacidas juvenis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007

Nolidae

• Maurilia conjuncta Gaede, 1915

Notodontidae

• Afrocerura leonensis (Hampson, 1910)
• Afrocerura leonensis (Hampson, 1910)
• Afropydna indistincta (Gaede, 1928)
• Amyops ingens Karsch, 1895
• Anaphe subsordida Butler, 1893
• Anaphe venata Butler, 1878
• Antheua bidentata (Hampson, 1910)
• Antheua bossumensis (Gaede, 1915)
• Antheua gallans (Karsch, 1895)
• Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
• Bisolita minuta (Holland, 1893)
• Bisolita strigata (Aurivillius, 1906)
• Desmeocraera albicans Gaede, 1928
• Desmeocraera vernalis Distant, 1897
• Eujansea afra (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Galona serena Karsch, 1895
• Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910)
• Phalera atrata (Grünberg, 1907)
• Rhenea mediata (Walker, 1865)
• Scrancia stictica Hampson, 1910
• Subscrancia nigra (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Utidaviana citana (Schaus, 1893)

Psychidae

• Acanthopsyche carbonarius Karsch, 1900

Pyralidae

• Acracona remipedalis (Karsch, 1900)

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius arata (Westwood, 1849)
• Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
• Bunaeopsis licharbas (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
• Imbrasia epimethea (Drury, 1772)
• Lobobunaea christyi (Sharpe, 1889)
• Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1782)
• Micragone agathylla (Westwood, 1849)
• Micragone rougeriei Bouyer, 2008
• Nudaurelia alopia Westwood, 1849
• Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)
• Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)

Sesiidae

• Albuna africana Le Cerf, 1917

Sphingidae

• Temnora radiata (Karsch, 1892)

Thyrididae

• Byblisia setipes (Plötz, 1880)
• Cecidothyris orbiferalis (Gaede, 1917)
• Lelymena misalis Karsch, 1900
• Marmax hyparchus (Cramer, 1779)
• Marmax semiaurata (Walker, 1854)
• Trichobaptes auristrigata (Plötz, 1880)

Tortricidae

• Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)

Zygaenidae

• Saliunca aurifrons Walker, 1864
• Saliunca styx (Fabricius, 1775)
• Syringura triplex (Plötz, 1880)

References

External links

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

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