Benin moths represent about 25 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 Benin.

Anomoeotidae

• Anomoeotes infuscata Talbot, 1929

Alucitidae

• Alucita chloracta (Meyrick, 1908)

Arctiidae

• Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
• Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)

Cossidae

• Phragmataecia psyche (Le Cerf, 1919)

Crambidae

• Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)

Geometridae

• Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897

Gracillariidae

• Acrocercops hedymopa Turner, 1913

Noctuidae

• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
• Metagarista maenas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
• Sarothroceras banaka (Plötz, 1880)

Notodontidae

• Epicerura tamsi Kiriakoff, 1963
• Pseudoscrancia africana (Holland, 1893)

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius horsini Bouvier, 1927
• Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
• Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
• Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)

Sesiidae

• Tipulamima sexualis (Hampson, 1910)
• Trichocerata bicolor (Le Cerf, 1917)

Tineidae

• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Syncalipsis typhodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Tiquadra cultrifera Meyrick, 1914

Tortricidae

• Rubrograptis recrudescentia Razowski, 1981
• Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)

References

External links

• AfroMoths