List of Lepidoptera of Cape Verde

Location of Cape Verde

Lepidoptera of Cape Verde represent about 134 known species. A total of 130 moth species have been recorded. Four species of butterfly are known from Cape Verde,^[1] none of which are endemic.^[2]

The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Butterflies

Hesperiidae

• Borbo borbonica Boisduval, 1833
• Coeliades forestan (Stoll, 1782)

Lycaenidae

• Azanus jesous (Guérin, 1847)
• Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880)
• Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)
• Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
• Deudorix dinomenes Grose-Smith, 1887
• Euchrysops osiris (Hopffer, 1855)
• Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

Nymphalidae

• Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773)
• Danaus chrysippus (Cramer, 1777)
• Nymphalis polychloros (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hypolimnas misippus(Linnaeus, 1764)
• Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Papilionidae

• Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798]

Pieridae

• Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776)
• Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
• Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)
• Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829)

Satyrinae

• Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)

Moths

Arctiidae

• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Crambidae

• Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
• Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, 1847
• Eudonia fogoalis Derra, 2008
• Pyrausta panopealis (Walker, 1859)
• Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)

Elachistidae

• Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)

Geometridae

• Chiasmia sudanata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Chloroclystis derasata (Bastelberger, 1905)
• Comibaena leucospilata (Walker, 1863)
• Comostolopsis stillata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
• Eucrostes disparata (Walker, 1861)
• Gymnoscelis daniloi Hausmann, 2009
• Gymnoscelis lindbergi Herbulot, 1957
• Isturgia pulinda (Walker, 1860)
• Microloxia aistleitneri Hausmann, 2009
• Microloxia ruficornis Warren, 1897
• Traminda vividaria (Walker, 1861)
• Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Phaiogramma faustinata – (Milliere, 1868)
• Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)
• Prasinocyma germinaria (Guenée, 1858)
• Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
• Scopula paneliusi Herbulot, 1957
• Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1857

Gracillariidae

• Caloptilia soyella (van Deventer, 1904)

Noctuidae

• Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
• Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
• Achaea mercatoria (Fabricius, 1775)
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia feae (Berio, 1937)
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)
• Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
• Adisura callima Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Agrotis aistleitneri Behounek & Speidel, 2009
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Androlymnia clavata Hampson, 1910
• Anomis auragoides (Guenée, 1852)
• Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
• Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
• Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
• Athetis ochreosignata Aurivillius, 1910
• Audea melaleuca Walker, 1865
• Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
• Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
• Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
• Chasmina vestae (Guenée, 1852)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
• Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
• Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
• Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
• Dicestra trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
• Eublemma baccalix (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Eublemma cochylioides (Guenée, 1852)
• Eublemma ecthaemata Hampson, 1896
• Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)
• Eublemma mesophaea Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma parva (Hübner, [1808])
• Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
• Eublemmoides apicimacula (Mabille, 1880)
• Euxoa admirabilis Hacker & Schreier, 2010
• Gesonia nigripalpa Wiltshire, 1977
• Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
• Grammodes exclusiva Pagenstecher, 1907
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Haplocestra similis Aurivillius, 1910
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Hiccoda dosaroides Moore, 1882
• Hipoepa fractalis (Guenée, 1854)
• Hypena conscitalis Walker, 1866
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
• Hypena semilutea (Snellen, 1872)
• Iambiodes incerta (Rothschild, 1913)
• Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
• Melanephia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)
• Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
• Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Oederemia simplivalva Hacker & Schreier, 2010
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
• Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
• Ozarba adducta Berio, 1940
• Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940
• Ozarba rubrivena Hampson, 1910
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808])
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Pseudozarba bipartita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1950)
• Saalmuellerana media (Walker, 1857)
• Serrodes partita (Fabricius, 1775)
• Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
• Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Syngrapha circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Tathorhynchus leucobasis Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Tathorhynchus troberti (Guenée, 1852)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902)
• Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)

Nolidae

• Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
• Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
• Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
• Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Pterophoridae

• Agdistis bifurcatus Agenjo, 1952
• Agdistis notabilis Gielis & Karsholt, 2009
• Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847)
• Exelastis atomosa (Walsingham, 1885)
• Hellinsia aistleitneri Arenberger, 2006
• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Pyralidae

• Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Sphingidae

• Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Hyles livornica (Esper, 1779)

Tortricidae

• Eccopsis praecedens Walsingham, 1897
• Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852

References

1. African Butterfly Database
2. Afrotropical Butterflies

• Mendes & de Souza, 2010, New data on Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lep.) from the Cape Verde Islands - Zoologia Caboverdiana & (1): 45-58
• Vieira, 2008, Lepidopteran fauna from Sal Island, Cape Verde. SHILAP, Vol. 36, 243-252

External links

• AfroMoths