List Of Moths Of Sierra Leone

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 (moth), 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

*

{{Africa in topic, List of moths of

Lepidoptera of West Africa, *Sierra Leone
Lists of moths of Africa, Sierra Leone
Lists of biota of Sierra Leone, Moths
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Lists of moths by country, Sierra Leone