List of moths of Gabon


There are about 830 known moth species of Gabon. The moths and butterflies together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Gabon.

Alucitidae

Anomoeotidae

Arctiidae

Drepanidae

Eupterotidae

Geometridae

  • Acrostatheusis reducta Herbulot, 1967
  • Cleora rostella D. S. Fletcher, 1967
  • Ctenoberta abanga Prout, 1915
  • Cyclophora dewitzi
  • Cyclophora diplosticta
  • Dioptrochasma homochroa
  • Gelasmodes fasciata
  • Geodena absimilis Holland, 1893
  • Geodena notata
  • Gongropteryx fasciata
  • Megadrepana cinerea Holland, 1893
  • Melinoessa asteria Prout, 1934
  • Mesomima tenuifascia
  • Miantochora picturata Herbulot, 1985
  • Mimaletis humilis Warren, 1894
  • Narthecusa tenuiorata Walker, 1862
  • Pitthea continua Walker, 1854
  • Plegapteryx anomalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
  • Scopula megalostigma
  • Scopula plionocentra Prout, 1920
  • Somatina syneorus Prout, 1915
  • Sphingomima olivacea
  • Terina charmione
  • Terina maculifera Strand, 1911
  • Terina octogesa
  • Terina reliqua Prout, 1925
  • Vaena eacleoides Walker, 1869
  • Zamarada aclys D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada acrochra Prout, 1928
  • Zamarada adumbrata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada aerata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada aglae Oberthür, 1912
  • Zamarada antimima D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada astales D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada astyphela D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada auratisquama Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada aurolineata Gaede, 1915
  • Zamarada bastelbergeri Gaede, 1915
  • Zamarada bernardii D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada bicuspida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada bilobata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada cathetus D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada catori Bethune-Baker, 1913
  • Zamarada cautela D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada cepa D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada cinereata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada clavigera D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada clenchi D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada clio Oberthür, 1912
  • Zamarada corroborata Herbulot, 1954
  • Zamarada corymbophora D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada cydippe Herbulot, 1954
  • Zamarada dargei D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dentigera Warren, 1909
  • Zamarada dialitha D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dilata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dione D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada disparata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dolorosa D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada dyscapna D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada effa Pierre-Baltus, 2000
  • Zamarada emaciata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada episema D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada eryma D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada euerces Prout, 1928
  • Zamarada ferruginata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada flavicosta Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada fumosa Gaede, 1915
  • Zamarada gaedei D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada griseola D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada herbuloti D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada hero D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada ixiaria Swinhoe, 1904
  • Zamarada kala Herbulot, 1975
  • Zamarada kompsotes D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada labifera Prout, 1915
  • Zamarada laciniata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada lanceolata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada latimargo Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada loangensis Sircoulomb, 2008
  • Zamarada lope Pierre-Baltus, 2000
  • Zamarada lophobela D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada lorana Pierre-Baltus, 2006
  • Zamarada mackanga Pierre-Baltus, 2000
  • Zamarada manifesta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot, 1954
  • Zamarada melpomene Oberthür, 1912
  • Zamarada merga D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada mimesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada miranda D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada odontis Pierre-Baltus, 2000
  • Zamarada ostracodes D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada paxilla D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada pelobasis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada penthesis D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada phrontisaria Swinhoe, 1904
  • Zamarada protrusa Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada quadriplaga Pierre-Baltus, 2005
  • Zamarada radula D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada rupta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada sagitta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada schalida D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada sicula D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada subincolaris Gaede, 1915
  • Zamarada suda D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada thalia Oberthür, 1912
  • Zamarada tortura D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada triangularis Gaede, 1915
  • Zamarada tullia Oberthür, 1913
  • Zamarada umbra Pierre-Baltus, 2006
  • Zamarada undimarginata Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada urania Oberthür, 1912
  • Zamarada variola D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada volsella D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897
  • Zamarada xystra D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Lasiocampidae

  • Cheligium choerocampoides
  • Cheligium licrisonia Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Cheligium lineatum
  • Cheligium pinheyi Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Chrysopsyche viridescens
  • Filiola occidentale
  • Gastropacha africana
  • Gastroplakaeis forficulatus
  • Gastroplakaeis greyi Holland, 1893
  • Gelo jordani
  • Gonobombyx angulata Aurivillius, 1893
  • Gonometa bicolor Dewitz, 1881
  • Gonometa titan Holland, 1893
  • Gonopacha brotoessa
  • Hypotrabala castanea Holland, 1893
  • Leipoxais major Holland, 1893
  • Leipoxais makomona Strand, 1912
  • Leipoxais marginepunctata Holland, 1893
  • Leipoxais obscura Aurivillius, 1908
  • Leipoxais peraffinis Holland, 1893
  • Leipoxais rufobrunnea Strand, 1912
  • Mallocampa audea
  • Mallocampa leucophaea
  • Mallocampa porphyria
  • Mimopacha cinerascens
  • Morongea avoniffi
  • Morongea cruenta Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Morongea flavipicta
  • Morongea gemmo Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Muzunguja rectilineata
  • Nepehria olivia Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2010
  • Opisthodontia diva Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Opisthodontia supramalis Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Opisthoheza heza Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Pachymeta immunda
  • Pachymetana niveoplaga
  • Pachypasa directa
  • Pachytrina crestalina Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pachytrina gliharta Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pachytrina honrathii
  • Pachytrina okzilina Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pachytrina papyroides
  • Pachytrina wenigina Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009
  • Pallastica mesoleuca
  • Philotherma spargata
  • Pseudometa minima
  • Sonitha alucard Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Sonitha bernardii Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Sonitha chocolatina Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Sonitha gelata Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Sonitha libera
  • Sonitha picassoi Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Stenophatna dentata
  • Stenophatna foedifraga Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Stenophatna hollandi
  • Stoermeriana directa
  • Stoermeriana fuliginosa
  • Stoermeriana livida
  • Streblote tessmanni
  • Theophasida obusta
  • Theophasida valkyria Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010

Limacodidae

Lymantriidae

  • Abynotha hylomima
  • Aroa nigripicta Holland, 1893
  • Batella muscosa
  • Crorema setinoides
  • Dasychira agrotoides
  • Dasychira albibasalis
  • Dasychira albicostata
  • Dasychira albilinea
  • Dasychira albinotata
  • Dasychira albosignata Holland, 1893
  • Dasychira albospargata
  • Dasychira apicata
  • Dasychira arctioides
  • Dasychira argiloides
  • Dasychira brunneicosta
  • Dasychira caeca
  • Dasychira chloromorpha
  • Dasychira circumdata
  • Dasychira clathrata
  • Dasychira coeruleifascia
  • Dasychira costiplaga
  • Dasychira crucifera
  • Dasychira delicata
  • Dasychira diluta
  • Dasychira erubescens
  • Dasychira flava
  • Dasychira fumosa
  • Dasychira fuscula Hering, 1926
  • Dasychira gabunica Holland, ????
  • Dasychira gonophora
  • Dasychira goodii
  • Dasychira hyloica
  • Dasychira hypnota
  • Dasychira miserata
  • Dasychira nigristriata
  • Dasychira notia Hering, 1926
  • Dasychira nubifera Holland, 1893
  • Dasychira nubilata
  • Dasychira obscura
  • Dasychira ocellata
  • Dasychira ocellifera
  • Dasychira proletaria
  • Dasychira prospera Hering, 1926
  • Dasychira ruptilinea Holland, 1893
  • Dasychira striata
  • Dasychira strigidentata Bethune-Baker, 1911
  • Dasychira thersites
  • Dasychira viridipallens
  • Dasychira viridis
  • Eudasychira georgiana
  • Eudasychira sublutescens
  • Euproctidion gabunica Holland, 1893
  • Euproctidion pallida
  • Euproctilla tesselata
  • Euproctillina mesomelaena
  • Euproctis albinula Hering, 1926
  • Euproctis apicipuncta
  • Euproctis bigutta Holland, 1893
  • Euproctis discipuncta
  • Euproctis melaleuca
  • Euproctis nigra
  • Euproctis palla
  • Euproctis parallela
  • Euproctis proxantha
  • Euproctis rotunda
  • Euproctis rubroguttata Aurivillius, 1904
  • Euproctis tessellata
  • Euproctis xanthomelaena
  • Hemerophanes hypoxantha
  • Heteronygmia flavescens Holland, 1893
  • Heteronygmia manicata
  • Laelia barsineides Holland, 1893
  • Laelia basibrunnea
  • Laelia hypoleucis Holland, 1893
  • Laelia lignicolor Holland, 1893
  • Laelia nubifuga
  • Laelia omissa
  • Laelia stigmatica
  • Leucoma fusca
  • Leucoma gracillima Holland, 1893
  • Leucoma luteipes
  • Leucoma nigripes
  • Leucoma ogovensis
  • Leucoma xanthocephala
  • Leucoma xanthosoma Saalmüller, 1884
  • Lomadonta erythrina Holland, 1893
  • Marbla divisa
  • Olapa imitans Aurivillius, 1910
  • Olene basalis
  • Otroeda hesperia
  • Otroeda nerina
  • Otroeda permagnifica Holland, 1893
  • Otroeda vesperina Walker, 1854
  • Paqueta infima
  • Pirga mirabilis
  • Rahona bicornuta Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Rahona caeruleibasalis Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Rahona collenettei Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Rahona hayesi Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Rahona subzairensis Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Rahona unica Dall'Asta, 1981
  • Stracena bananoides
  • Stracena eximia
  • Stracena promelaena
  • Terphothrix lanaria Holland, 1893
  • Terphothrix tenuis
  • ''Usimbara lata''

Metarbelidae

Noctuidae

Nolidae

  • Blenina chloromelana
  • Blenina chrysochlora
  • Earias ogovana Holland, 1893
  • Eligma hypsoides
  • Gigantoceras geometroptera Holland, 1893
  • Gigantoceras solstitialis Holland, 1893
  • Hypodeva barbata Holland, 1894
  • Metaleptina albibasis Holland, 1893
  • Metaleptina nigribasis Holland, 1893
  • Metaleptina obliterata Holland, 1893
  • Negeta mesoleuca
  • Nola chia
  • Nola juvenis
  • Odontestis prosticta
  • Periplusia cinerascens Holland, 1894
  • Periplusia nubilicosta Holland, 1894
  • Plusiocalpe pallida Holland, 1894
  • Westermannia anchorita Holland, 1893
  • Westermannia goodi Hampson, 1912

Notodontidae

  • Acroctena pallida
  • Afrocerura cameroona
  • Antheua gallans
  • Antheua simplex Walker, 1855
  • Antitrotonotus gabonensis Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Aoba grassei Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Aoba tosta Kiriakoff, 1965
  • Arciera grisea
  • Bernardita albiplagiata
  • Bisolita minuta
  • Blacodes friedae Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Bostrychogyna bella
  • Brachychira alternata Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira argentina Kiriakoff, 1955
  • Brachychira bernardii Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira destituta Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira dives Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Brachychira excellens
  • Brachychira exusta Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira incerta Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira murina Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira punctulata Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Brachychira subargentea Kiriakoff, 1955
  • Catarctia biseriata
  • Catarctia divisa
  • Catarctia terminipuncta Hampson, 1910
  • Cerurina marshalli
  • Deinarchia apateloides
  • Desmeocraera bitioides
  • Desmeocraera chloeropsis
  • Desmeocraera falsa
  • Desmeocraera formosa Kiriakoff, 1958
  • Desmeocraera glauca Gaede, 1928
  • Desmeocraera hinnula Holland, 1893
  • Desmeocraera latex
  • Desmeocraera propinqua
  • Desmeocraera squamipennis
  • Desmeocraera varia
  • Desmeocraerula conspicuana Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Desmeocraerula inconspicuana Strand, 1912
  • Desmeocraerula pallida Kiriakoff, 1963
  • Desmeocraerula senicula Kiriakoff, 1963
  • Desmeocraerula subangulata Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Desmeocraerula viridipicta Kiriakoff, 1963
  • Dinotodonta longa Holland, 1893
  • Elaphrodes duplex
  • Enomotarcha chloana
  • Epanaphe carteri
  • Epanaphe clara
  • Epidonta brunneomixta
  • Epidonta transversa
  • Epitrotonotus vilis
  • Eurystauridia dorsalis Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Galanthella arctipennis
  • Galanthella evides Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Harpandrya aeola Bryk, 1913
  • Harpandrya cinerea Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Harpandrya gemella Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Harpandrya josepha Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Harpandrya rea Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Harpandrya recussa Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Iridoplitis theodorus Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Janthinisca flavescens Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Janthinisca flavipennis
  • Janthinisca signifera
  • Macronadata collaris Möschler, 1887
  • Macronadata tigris Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Macrosenta longicauda Holland, 1893
  • Mesonadata quinquemaculata Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Odontoperas archonta Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Odontoperas cyanogramma Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Odontoperas dentigera Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Odontoperas lineata Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Paratrotonotus ogovensis
  • Peratodonta olivacea Gaede, 1928
  • Peratodonta umbrosa Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Pittheides chloauchena
  • Pseudobarobata denticulata Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Pseudobarobata integra Kiriakoff, 1966
  • Pseudoscrancia africana
  • Pyrsopsyche pyrrhias Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Quista arenacea Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Quista conformis Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Quista niveiplaga
  • Quista subcarnea Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda acamas Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda actor Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda afra Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda agasthenes Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda albobrunnea Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda amphion Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda ancaeus Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda andraemon Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda antiphus Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda astyoche Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda benga Holland, 1893
  • Scalmicauda bernardii Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda bicolorata Gaede, 1928
  • Scalmicauda brevipennis
  • Scalmicauda chalcedona Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda corona Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda decorata Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Scalmicauda epistrophus Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda eumela Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda fuscinota Aurivillius, 1904
  • Scalmicauda hoesemanni
  • Scalmicauda lineata
  • Scalmicauda lycaon Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda macrosema Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Scalmicauda myrine Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda oileus Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda orthogramma Kiriakoff, 1960
  • Scalmicauda pandarus Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda paucinotata Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Scalmicauda phorcys Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda podarce Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda pylaemenes Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda talaeon Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda tessmanni
  • Scalmicauda thessala Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Scalmicauda uniarcuata Kiriakoff, 1962
  • Scrancia aesalon Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Scrancia atribasalis Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Scrancia hypotriorchis Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Scrancia modesta Holland, 1893
  • Scrancia nisus Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Scrancia osica Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Scrancia tinnunculus Kiriakoff, 1967
  • Stauropussa chloe
  • Synete aberrans Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Synete argentescens
  • Synete boops Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Synete frugalis Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Synete julia Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Synete olivaceofusca
  • Synete schistacea Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Synete semiarcuata Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Synete streptopelia Kiriakoff, 1959
  • Synete ursula Kiriakoff, 1968
  • Tmetopteryx bisecta
  • Trabanta ignobilis
  • Tricholoba atriclathrata Hampson, 1910
  • Tricholoba immodica Strand, 1911
  • Tricholoba intensiva Gaede, 1928
  • Tricholoba trisignata Strand, 1911

Psychidae

  • Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887
  • Eumeta rougeoti Bourgogne, 1955
  • Eumeta strandi Bourgogne, 1955

Pterophoridae

Saturniidae

  • Athletes ethra
  • Bunaeopsis aurantiaca
  • Carnegia mirabilis
  • Epiphora albidus
  • Epiphora berliozi
  • Epiphora gabonensis
  • Epiphora testouti
  • Goodia lunata Holland, 1893
  • Goodia nubilata Holland, 1893
  • Imbrasia epimethea
  • Imbrasia longicaudata Holland, 1894
  • Lobobunaea goodi
  • Lobobunaea melanoneura
  • Lobobunaea niepelti Strand, 1914
  • Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1892
  • Micragone agathylla
  • Micragone colettae Rougeot, 1959
  • Micragone lichenodes
  • Micragone martinae Rougeot, 1952
  • Micragone mirei Darge, 1990
  • Nudaurelia anthinoides Rougeot, 1978
  • Nudaurelia bouvieri
  • Nudaurelia dione
  • Nudaurelia dionysiae Rougeot, 1948
  • Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
  • Nudaurelia melanops
  • Orthogonioptilum bernardii Bouyer, 1990
  • Orthogonioptilum diabolicum Rougeot, 1971
  • Orthogonioptilum luminosa
  • Orthogonioptilum modestum Rougeot, 1965
  • Orthogonioptilum ochraceum Rougeot, 1958
  • Orthogonioptilum piersoni Bouyer, 1989
  • Orthogonioptilum subueleense Rougeot, 1972
  • Orthogonioptilum vestigiata
  • Pseudantheraea discrepans
  • Pseudantheraea imperator Rougeot, 1962
  • Pseudimbrasia deyrollei
  • Tagoropsis genoviefae Rougeot, 1950

Sesiidae

Sphingidae

Thyrididae

  • Arniocera viridifasciata
  • Byblisia setipes
  • Chrysotypus luteofuscus Whalley, 1971
  • Dysodia collinsi Whalley, 1968
  • Marmax hyparchus
  • Marmax semiaurata
  • Ninia plumipes
  • Toosa longipes
  • ''Trichobaptes auristrigata''

Tineidae

  • Cimitra efformata
  • Perissomastix mili Gozmány, 1965

Tortricidae

Zygaenidae

  • Chalconycles chloauges
  • Homophylotis obscurissimus
  • ''Syringura triplex''