Omphalea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1759. It is native to tropical parts of the Americas, the West Indies, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
The Uraniinae or uraniine moths are a subfamily of moths in the family Uraniidae. It contains seven genera that occur in the tropics of the world.
Pterolonchidae is a small family of very small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. There are species native to every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
Rhodometra sacraria, the vestal, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
Utetheisa pulchella, the crimson-speckled flunkey, crimson-speckled footman, or crimson-speckled moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is common in open habitats throughout the Ethiopian Region, including Madagascar. It is however probably absent from the equatorial forest belt, except as a vagrant. The species is an active migrant.
Nephele oenopion is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Africa.
Theretra capensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from woodland and open habitats from the Cape to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique and East Africa.
Inferuncus infesta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1934 as Platyptilia infesta. It occurs on São Tomé Island off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It was placed in the genus Inferuncus in 2011.
Chrysiridia is a genus of uraniid moths from Africa including Madagascar. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823. They are diurnal and strongly marked with iridescent colours.
Anomis auragoides is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in central and southern Africa, and is known from Cape Verde, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros and Réunion.
Scopula quintaria is a moth of the family Geometridae, first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1916. It occurs in Malawi, South Africa and Príncipe.
Thumatha fuscescens is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Australia, South-East Asia, India, Sri Lanka, the Comoros, Réunion, Madagascar, and Gabon.
Hymenoptychis sordida, the pneumatophore moth, is a moth of the family Crambidae. The species was first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It is known from Australia, southern and South-East Asia, several Pacific islands, Seychelles, South Africa, Madagascar and the United Arab Emirates.
Mesocolpia consobrina is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1901. It is found on São Tomé Island, Angola, DR Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa.
Racotis squalida is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in central, eastern and southern Africa.
Rhynchina obliqualis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844. The type locality is Mussoorie, in the Indian Himalayas.
Dactyloceras swanzii is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1871. It is found in Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and South Africa.
Ancylolomia croesus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Kenya.
Rhodopteriana rhodoptera is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker in 1871. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
