Location of Sudan and South Sudan

There are about 350 known moth species of Sudan and South Sudan. 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 Sudan and South Sudan.

Arctiidae

Autostichidae

Coleophoridae

Cosmopterigidae

Cossidae

Crambidae

Elachistidae

Gelechiidae

Geometridae

  • Acidaliastis micra Hampson, 1896
  • Callioratis apicisecta Prout, 1915
  • Celidomphax prolongata Prout, 1915
  • Chiasmia ate (Prout, 1926)
  • Chiasmia maculosa (Warren, 1899)
  • Chiasmia sudanata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
  • Cleora rostella D. S. Fletcher, 1967
  • Hemidromodes robusta (Prout, 1913)
  • Heterostegane minutissima (Swinhoe, 1904)
  • Idaea granulosa (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
  • Idaea microptera (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
  • Idaea sanctaria Staudinger, 1900
  • Isturgia disputaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Lomographa indularia (Guenée, 1858)
  • Microloxia ruficornis Warren, 1897
  • Omphalucha brunnea (Warren, 1899)
  • Polystroma steeleae (Prout, 1934)
  • Prasinocyma immaculata (Thunberg, 1784)
  • Pseudosterrha paulula (Swinhoe, 1886)
  • Pseudosterrha rufistrigata (Hampson, 1896)
  • Scopula adelpharia (Püngeler, 1894)
  • Scopula natalica (Butler, 1875)
  • Scopula pseudophema Prout, 1920
  • Syndromodes invenusta (Wallengren, 1863)
  • Xanthorhoe exorista Prout, 1922
  • Zamarada anacantha D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada delta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada melasma D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada minimaria Swinhoe, 1895
  • Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada secutaria (Guenée, 1858)
  • Zamarada torrida D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Gracillariidae

Lasiocampidae

  • Anadiasa obsoleta (Klug, 1830)
  • Anadiasa simplex Pagenstecher, 1903
  • Beralade obliquata (Klug, 1830)
  • Braura nilotica (Aurivillius, 1925)
  • Chrysopsyche wilsoni Tams, 1938
  • Odontocheilopteryx maculata Aurivillius, 1905
  • Streblote butiti (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
  • Streblote diluta (Aurivillius, 1905)

Limacodidae

  • Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896
  • Coenobasis postflavida Hampson, 1910
  • Gavara caprai Berio, 1937
  • Macroplectra iracunda Hering, 1928

Lymantriidae

  • Cropera testacea Walker, 1855
  • Crorema setinoides (Holland, 1893)
  • Crorema sudanica Strand, 1915
  • Euproctis erythrosticta (Hampson, 1910)
  • Euproctis ostentum Hering, 1926
  • Euproctis xanthosoma Hampson, 1910

Metarbelidae

Nepticulidae

Noctuidae

Nolidae

  • Arcyophora patricula (Hampson, 1902)
  • Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Earias nubica (Strand, 1915)
  • Neaxestis mesogonia (Hampson, 1905)
  • Selepa docilis Butler, 1881

Notodontidae

  • Antheua gallans (Karsch, 1895)
  • Antheua woerdeni (Snellen, 1872)
  • Desmeocraera leucophaea Gaede, 1928
  • Epidonta brunnea (Rothschild, 1917)
  • Leptolepida henleyi (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
  • Notoxantha aurorina Kiriakoff, 1961
  • Zerafia drymonides Strand, 1915

Plutellidae

Psychidae

  • Acanthopsyche ebneri (Rebel, 1917)
  • Auchmophila kordofensis Rebel, 1907

Pterophoridae

Pyralidae

Saturniidae

  • Bunaea alcinoe (Stoll, 1780)
  • Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
  • Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)
  • Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
  • Epiphora getula (Maassen & Weymer, 1885)
  • Epiphora magdalena Grünberg, 1909
  • Epiphora ploetzi (Weymer, 1880)
  • Epiphora vacuna (Westwood, 1849)
  • Holocerina angulata (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Holocerina istsariensis Stoneham, 1962

Sesiidae

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

  • Netrocera setioides Felder, 1874

Tineidae

  • Ceratophaga tragoptila (Meyrick, 1917)
  • Ceratophaga vastella (Zeller, 1852)
  • Edosa pyrochra (Gozmány, 1965)
  • Hapsifera rhodoptila Meyrick, 1920
  • Machaeropteris baloghi Gozmány, 1965
  • Perissomastix nigriceps Warren & Rothschild, 1905
  • Perissomastix perdita Gozmány, 1965
  • Perissomastix taeniaecornis (Walsingham, 1896)
  • Philagraulella punica (Meyrick, 1930)
  • Sphallestasis cristata (Gozmány, 1967)
  • Syncalipsis sudanica Gozmány, 1965
  • Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
  • Trichophaga abruptella (Wollaston, 1858)

Tortricidae

Xyloryctidae

Zygaenidae

  • Epiorna abessynica (Koch, 1865)

References

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