Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Burkea africana, the wild syringa, is a deciduous, medium-sized, spreading, flat-topped tree belonging to the family Caesalpiniaceae. The genus was named in honour of Joseph Burke, the botanist and collector.
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.
Sufetula is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Weymeria is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Ferdinand Karsch in 1895. Its only species, Weymeria athene, was first described by Weymer in 1892. It is found in Tanzania.
Thyatirina is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by George Hampson in 1910. Its only species, Thyatirina achatina, was first described by Weymer in 1896. It is found in Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi.
Gustav Weymer (1833–1914) was a German entomologist. He described many new taxa of butterflies from specimens collected by Alphons Stübel in South America.
Rohaniella is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Eugène Louis Bouvier in 1927.
Epiphora is a genus of large moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was first described by Wallengren in 1860. They are native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Pseudobunaea is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Eugène Louis Bouvier in 1927.
Vegetia dewitzi is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It was described by Peter Maassen and Gustav Weymer in 1886. It is found in South Africa.
Amerila lupia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Urapteritra falcifera is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Weymer in 1892. It is found in eastern Africa and South Africa.
Rhypopteryx rubripunctata is a species of moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Gustav Weymer in 1892. It is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa and Tanzania.
Decachorda pomona is a species of moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Weymer in 1892. It is known from central and eastern Africa.
Heniocha dyops, the marbled emperor, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is found in Angola, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania.
Ocinara ficicola is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Eleanor Anne Ormerod in 1889. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa and Uganda.
