List of moths of Chad

Location of Chad

There are about 50 known moth species in Chad. 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 Chad.

Arctiidae

• Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
• Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892

Coleophoridae

• Nasamonica oxymorpha Meyrick, 1922

Geometridae

• Brachyglossina tibbuana Herbulot, 1965
• Heterostegane monilifera Prout, 1915
• Neromia pulvereisparsa (Hampson, 1896)
• Trimetopia aetheraria Guenée, 1858
• Zamarada minimaria Swinhoe, 1895

Lasiocampidae

• Pachymetana joiceyi (Tams, 1925)

Metarbelidae

• Moyencharia mineti Lehmann, 2013
• Salagena cuprea Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae

• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Callhyccoda mirei Herbulot & Viette, 1952
• Cardepia sociabilis de Graslin, 1850
• Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Diparopsis watersi (Rothschild, 1901)
• Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007

Nolidae

• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)

Notodontidae

• Desmeocraera bitioides (Holland, 1893)

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius xerophilus Rougeot, 1977
• Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
• Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Orthogonioptilum chalix Jordan, 1922
• Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
• Pseudobunaea heyeri (Weymer, 1896)

Sphingidae

• Neopolyptychus prionites (Rothschild & Jordan, 1916)

External links

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