List of moths of Mali

Location of Mali

Moths of Mali represent only 23 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 Mali.

Arctiidae

• Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
• Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)

Geometridae

• Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897

Lasiocampidae

• Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
• Lasiocampa bilineata (Mabille, 1884)
• Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
• Streblote panda Hübner, 1822

Noctuidae

• Abrostola confusa Dufay, 1958
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
• Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
• Acontia semialba Hampson, 1910
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)

Psychidae

• Acanthopsyche carbonarius Karsch, 1900

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)

Pyraloidea

• Analyta calligrammalis Mabille, 1879
• Ancylolomia simplella de Joannis, 1913
• Autocharis marginata Guillermet, 1996
• Biafra concinnella (Ragonot, 1888)
• Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854
• Botyodes diniasalis (Walker, 1859)
• Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892
• Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
• Glyphodes bitriangulalis Gaede, 1917
• Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859)
• Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, 1866)
• Hypsopygia bamakoensis Leraut, 2006
• Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888
• Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
• Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
• Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Pardomima callixantha Martin, 1955
• Parotis impia (Meyrick, 1934)
• Patania balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Pioneabathra olesialis (Walker, 1859)
• Pyralis pictalis (Curtis, 1834)
• Pyrausta phoenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
• Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
• Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Terastia africana Sourakov, 2015
• Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852
• Ulopeza flavicepsalis Hampson, 1912

Tineidae

• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Endromarmata lutipalpis (Meyrick, 1922)
• Hyperbola pastoralis (Meyrick, 1931)

Tortricidae

• Cosmorrhyncha acrocosma (Meyrick, 1908)

References

• Poltavsky, A.N., Kravchenko, V.D., Traore, M.M., Traore, S.F., Gergely, P., Witt, Th.J., Sulak, H., Beck, R.H.-T., Junnila, A., Revay, E.E., Doumbia, S., Beier, J.C. & Müller, G.C. 2018. Biodiversity and seasonality of Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) in the woody savannah belt in Mali. Israel Journal of Entomology 48 (1): 69–78. Article

External links

• AfroMoths