Location of Burundi

There are about 118 known moth species of Burundi. 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 Burundi.

Arctiidae

Crambidae

Eupterotidae

Geometridae

  • Cleora pavlitzkiae (D. S. Fletcher, 1958)
  • Cleora rostella D. S. Fletcher, 1967
  • Idiodes flexilinea (Warren, 1898)
  • Idiodes pectinata (Herbulot, 1966)
  • Pingasa distensaria (Walker, 1860)
  • Zamarada acosmeta Prout, 1921
  • Zamarada amicta Prout, 1915
  • Zamarada bathyscaphes Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada delta D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada gamma D. S. Fletcher, 1958
  • Zamarada glareosa Bastelberger, 1909
  • Zamarada metrioscaphes Prout, 1912
  • Zamarada plana Bastelberger, 1909
  • Zamarada prolata D. S. Fletcher, 1974
  • Zamarada seydeli D. S. Fletcher, 1974

Lasiocampidae

  • Braura elgonensis (Kruck, 1940)
  • Braura ligniclusa (Walker, 1865)
  • Eutricha morosa (Walker, 1865)
  • Metajana marshalli Aurivillius, 1909
  • Morongea lampara Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
  • Odontocheilopteryx myxa Wallengren, 1860
  • Odontocheilopteryx phoneus Hering, 1928
  • Odontocheilopteryx scilla Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009
  • Pachyna subfascia (Walker, 1855)
  • Pachytrina papyroides (Tams, 1936)
  • Pallastica meloui (Riel, 1909)
  • Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Pallastica sericeofasciata (Aurivillius, 1921)
  • Stenophatna rothschildi (Tams, 1936)

Lymantriidae

  • Batella katanga (Collenette, 1938)
  • Cropera testacea Walker, 1855
  • Crorema fuscinotata (Hampson, 1910)
  • Dasychira lulua Collenette, 1937
  • Dasychira punctifera (Walker, 1857)
  • Eudasychira georgiana (Fawcett, 1900)
  • Eudasychira subeudela Dall'Asta, 1983
  • Euproctis bigutta Holland, 1893
  • Euproctis conizona Collenette, 1933
  • Euproctis molunduana Aurivillius, 1925
  • Euproctis pallida (Kirby, 1896)
  • Euproctis utilis Swinhoe, 1903
  • Hyaloperina nudiuscula Aurivillius, 1904
  • Jacksoniana striata (Collenette, 1937)
  • Lacipa jefferyi (Collenette, 1931)
  • Laelia bifascia Hampson, 1905
  • Laelia eutricha Collenette, 1931
  • Laelia extorta (Distant, 1897)
  • Laelia figlina Distant, 1899
  • Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
  • Laelia gigantea Hampson, 1910
  • Laelia rogersi Bethune-Baker, 1913
  • Leucoma parva (Plötz, 1880)
  • Mylantria xanthospila (Plötz, 1880)
  • Neomardara africana (Holland, 1893)
  • Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
  • Orgyia hopkinsi Collenette, 1937
  • Otroeda hesperia (Cramer, 1779)
  • Porthesaroa lacipa Hering, 1926
  • Sphragista kitchingi (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
  • Tamsita ochthoeba (Hampson, 1920)

Metarbelidae

Noctuidae

  • Acontia secta Guenée, 1852
  • Acontia transfigurata Wallengren, 1856
  • Aegocera fervida (Walker, 1854)
  • Aegocera obliqua Mabille, 1893
  • Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
  • Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
  • Feliniopsis laportei Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
  • Feliniopsis satellitis (Berio, 1974)
  • Heraclia geryon (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Heraclia monslunensis (Hampson, 1901)
  • Heraclia superba (Butler, 1875)
  • Metagarista triphaenoides Walker, 1854
  • Mitrophrys menete (Cramer, 1775)
  • Tuertella rema (Druce, 1910)

Nolidae

  • Blenina chrysochlora (Walker, 1865)

Notodontidae

  • Antheua gallans (Karsch, 1895)
  • Antheua grisea (Gaede, 1928)
  • Atrasana vittata Kiriakoff, 1969
  • Stenostaura dorsalis Kiriakoff, 1969
  • Thaumetopoea apologetica Strand, 1909

Pterophoridae

Saturniidae

  • Nudaurelia anthinoides Rougeot, 1978
  • Pselaphelia vandenberghei Bouyer, 1992
  • Tagoropsis hecqui Bouyer, 1989
  • Tagoropsis rougeoti D. S. Fletcher, 1952
  • Urota centralis Bouyer, 2008

Tineidae

References

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