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List of moths of Benin
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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)
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