Species overview - Checklist for Lepidoptera in Mauritania
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| Abrostola confusa (Dufay, 1958) | Info |
| Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Achaea catella (Guenée, 1852) | Banded Achaea | Info |
| Achaea lienardi (Boisduval, 1833) | Info |
| Acontia biskrensis (Oberthur, 1887) | Info |
| Acontia imitatrix -> Acontia zelleri | Info |
| Acontia insocia (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Acontia nigrimacula (Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008) | Info |
| Acontia opalinoides (Guenée, 1852) | Info |
| Acontia wahlbergi (Wallengren, 1856) | Info |
| Acontia zelleri (Wallengren, 1856) | Info |
| Acrobyla gloriosa (Rungs, 1945) | Info |
| Adisura callima (Bethune-baker, 1911) | Info |
| Aegocera rectilinea (Boisduval, 1836) | Info |
| Africalpe vagabunda (Swinhoe, 1884) | Info |
| Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847) | Tamarisk Plume | Site |
| Agrotis biconica (Kollar, 1844) | Info |
| Agrotis herzogi (Rebel, 1911) | Spalding´s Dart | Info |
| Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766) | Info |
| Agrotis sardzeana (Brandt, 1941) | Info |
| Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) | Info |
| Agrotis spinifera -> Agrotis ipsilon | Gregson´s Dart | Info |
| Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824) | Crescent Dart | Info |
| Alcterogystia nilotica (Joannis, 1910) | Info |
| Amyna axis -> Ilattia axis | Eight-Spot | Info |
| Amyna delicata (Wiltshire, 1994) | Info |
| Anarta trifolii -> Nutmeg trifolii | Clover cutworm | Info |
| Ancylolomia saharae (Leraut, 2012) | Info |
| Androlymnia clavata (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Anomalotinea cubiculella (Staudinger, 1859) | Info |
| Anomalotinea occidentalis (Zagulajev, 1972) | Info |
| Antarchaea conicephala -> Raparna conicephala | Info |
| Anthene crawshayi vuattouxi (Libert, 2010) | Info |
| Anthene kikuyu (Bethune-baker, 1910) | Kikuyu Ciliate Blue | Info |
| Anumeta atrosignata (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Anumeta spilota -> Anumeta atrosignata | Info |
| Arctiocossus aries (Püngeler, 1902) | Info |
| Arcyophora patricula (Hampson, 1902) | Info |
| Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775) | Green Semilooper | Info |
| Aspidifrontia berioi (Hacker & Hausmann, 2010) | Info |
| Aspidifrontia hemileuca (Hampson, 1909) | Info |
| Aspidifrontia pallidula (Hacker & Hausmann, 2010) | Info |
| Aspidifrontia villiersi (Laporte, 1972) | Info |
| Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896) | Info |
| Attatha metaleuca (Hampson, 1913) | Info |
| Audea kathrina (Kühne, 2005) | Info |
| Audea melaleuca (Walker, 1865) | Info |
| Audea paulumnodosa (Kühne, 2005) | Info |
| Autoba teilhardi (De Joannis, 1909) | Info |
| Azygophleps otello (Yakovlev, 2011) | Info |
| Azygophleps scalaris (Fabricius, 1775) | Sesbania stem borer | Info |
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| Bazaria turensis (Ragonot, 1887) | Info |
| Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) | Pioneer White | Info |
| Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819) | African Veined White | Info |
| Bilulua mediopunctulata (Kiriakoff, 1979) | Info |
| Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833) | Olive Haired Swift | Info |
| Boreostaura variabilis (Kiriakoff, 1979) | Info |
| Brachiolodes ziczac (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Brachmia convolvuli -> Helcystogramma convolvuli | Sweet Potato Moth | Info |
| Brachygystia mauretanicus (Lucas, 1907) | Info |
| Brachygystia minor (Rungs, 1972) | Info |
| Braura othello (Zolotuhin & Gurkovich, 2009) | Info |
| Brevipecten confluens (Hampson, 1926) | Info |
| Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775) | Kew Arches | Info |
| Bryophilopsis tarachoides (Mabille, 1900) | Info |
| Species with C | Back Next | Top |
| Calliodes pretiosissima (Holland, 1892) | Info |
| Calophasia platyptera (Esper, 1788) | Antirrhinum Brocade | Info |
| Camellocossus abyssinica (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Camellocossus henleyi (Warren & Rothschild, 1905) | Info |
| Caradrina clavipalpis -> Paradrina clavipalpis | Pale Mottled Willow | Info |
| Cardepia affinis -> Cardepia sociabilis | Info |
| Cardepia sociabilis (De Graslin, 1850) | Info |
| Cataonia mauritanica (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Catopta minor -> Brachygystia mauretanicus | Info |
| Ceratophaga infuscatella (Joannis, 1897) | Info |
| Cerocala albicornis -> Cerocala caelata | Info |
| Cerocala caelata (Karsch, 1896) | Info |
| Chalciope pusilla (Holland, 1894) | Info |
| Chasmina tibialis (Fabricius, 1775) | Satin Moth | Info |
| Chasmina vestae -> Chasmina tibialis | Info |
| Chiasmia sudanata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905) | Info |
| Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858) | Tunbridge Wells Gem | Info |
| Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789) | Golden Twin-spot | Info |
| Clytie infrequens (Swinhoe, 1884) | Info |
| Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1897) | Info |
| Clytie tropicalis (Rungs, 1975) | Info |
| Coeliades forestan (Stoll, 1782) | Striped Policeman | Info |
| Coleophora mauretanica -> Coleophora tanyleuca | Info |
| Coleophora tanyleuca (Meyrick, 1936) | Info |
| Colias heos (Herbst, 1792) | Info |
| Colotis amata calais (Cramer, 1775) | Info |
| Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) | Large Orange Tip | Info |
| Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) | Double-banded Orange | Info |
| Colotis aurora -> Colotis aurigineus | Plain Orange-tip | Info |
| Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829) | Info |
| Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) | Golden Arab Tip | Info |
| Colotis danae eupompe (Klug, 1829) | Info |
| Colotis eris (Klug, 1829) | Banded Gold Tip | Info |
| Colotis evarne (Klug, 1829) | Info |
| Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829) | Desert Orange Tip | Info |
| Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) | Blue-spotted Arab | Info |
| Colotis vesta amelia (Lucas, 1852) | Info |
| Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852) | The African | Info |
| Condica conducta -> Condica capensis | Info |
| Condica viscosa (Freyer, 1831) | Info |
| Coniesta ignefusalis (Hampson, 1919) | Info |
| Constantiodes pyralina (Hampson, 1916) | Info |
| Cossus abyssinica -> Camellocossus abyssinica | Info |
| Cossus abyssinicus -> Camellocossus abyssinica | Info |
| Cossus aegyptiacus (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Cossus aries -> Arctiocossus aries | Info |
| Cossus bianchii (Krüger, 1934) | Info |
| Cossus bongiovannii -> Arctiocossus aries | Info |
| Cossus cheesmani -> Arctiocossus aries | Info |
| Cossus henleyi -> Camellocossus henleyi | Info |
| Cossus mauretanicus -> Brachygystia mauretanicus | Info |
| Cossus saharae -> Cossus bianchii | Info |
| Cossus tahlai -> Arctiocossus aries | Info |
| Cossus turati (Krüger, 1934) | Info |
| Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898) | Info |
| Crypsotidia remanei (Wiltshire, 1977) | Info |
| Cupidopsis iobates (Hopffer, 1855) | Tailed Meadow Blue | Info |
| Cupidopsis jobates mauritanica (Riley, 1932) | Info |
| Cupidopsis mauritanica -> Cupidopsis iobates | Tailed Meadow Blue | Info |
| Cyligramma fluctuosa (Drury, 1773) | Info |
| Cyligramma magus (Guérin-méneville, 1844) | Info |
| Species with D | Back Next | Top |
| Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Plain Tiger | Info |
| Danaus chrysippus alcippus (Cramer, 1777) | Info |
| Diparopsis watersi (Rothschild, 1901) | Info |
| Drasteria kabylaria (Bang-haas, 1906) | Info |
| Duponchelia fovealis (Zeller, 1847) | Exotic Greenhouse Invasive | Info |
| Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852) | Jigsaw | Info |
| Dyspessa intermedia -> Cossus bianchii | Info |
| Dyspessa suavis (Staudinger, 1899) | Info |
| Species with E | Back Next | Top |
| Earias biplaga (Walker, 1866) | Spiny Bollworm | Info |
| Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833) | Cotton Spotted Bollworm | Info |
| Empusa murati (Chopard, 1940) | Info |
| Epimetasia monotona (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Epinotia hesperidana (Kennel, 1921) | Info |
| Eremocossus senegalensis -> Cossus bianchii | Info |
| Eremocossus vaulogeri (Staudinger, 1897) | Info |
| Eublemma baccalix (Swinhoe, 1886) | Info |
| Eublemma ecthaemata (Hampson, 1896) | Info |
| Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901) | Info |
| Eublemma parva (Hübner, 1808) | Small Marbled | Info |
| Eublemma ragusana (Freyer, 1844) | Info |
| Eublemma robertsi (Berio, 1969) | Info |
| Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833) | Info |
| Eublemma tytrocoides (Hacker & Hausmann, 2010) | Info |
| Eublemmoides apicimacula (Mabille, 1880) | Chocolate Tip Eublemma | Info |
| Euchloe falloui (Allard, 1867) | Scarce Green-striped White | Info |
| Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833) | Smoky bean cupid | Info |
| Eutelia polychorda (Hampson, 1902) | Info |
| Species with F | Back Next | Top |
| Filodes costiventralis -> Fissicrambus adonis | Info |
| Filodes costivitralis (Guenée, 1862) | Window Pearl | Info |
| Filodes productalis -> Fissicrambus adonis | Window Pearl | Info |
| Fissicrambus adonis (Bleszynski, 1963) | Info |
| Species with G | Back Next | Top |
| Gesonia obeditalis (Walker, 1859) | Info |
| Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Grammodes congenita (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775) | The Geometrician | Info |
| Species with H | Back Next | Top |
| Hadena silenides (Staudinger, 1895) | Info |
| Hadula trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766) | Clover cutworm | Info |
| Hamanumida daedalus (Fabricius, 1775) | Guineafowl | Info |
| Haplocestra similis (Aurivillius, 1910) | Info |
| Harutaeographa adusta (Hreblay & L. Ronkay, 1999) | Info |
| Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1805) | Old World bollworm | Site |
| Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852) | Cape gooseberry budworm | Info |
| Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865) | Info |
| Heliothis albiseriata (Druce, 1903) | Info |
| Heliothis nubigera (Herrich-schäffer, 1851) | Eastern Bordered Straw | Info |
| Heliothis nubila (Hampson, 1903) | Info |
| Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) | Bordered Straw | Info |
| Hemidromodes affinis (Rothschild, 1915) | Info |
| Heteropalpia acrosticta (Puneler, 1904) | Info |
| Heteropalpia exarata (Mabille, 1890) | Info |
| Heterostegane boghensis (Wiltshire, 1985) | Info |
| Hippotion osiris (Dalman, 1823) | Large Striped Hawk-moth | Info |
| Holcocerus baloutchistanensis -> Cossus bianchii | Info |
| Holcocerus powelli -> Brachygystia mauretanicus | Info |
| Hypena laceratalis (Walker, 1859) | Lantana Defoliator | Info |
| Hypena lividalis -> Ophiuche lividalis | Info |
| Hypena obacerralis (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Hypocala rostrata (Fabricius, 1794) | Info |
| Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793) | Common Hairstreak | Info |
| Hypopta cognata -> Mormogystia reibellii | Info |
| Hypopta mussolinii -> Mormogystia reibellii | Info |
| Hypopta vaulogeri -> Cossus bianchii | Info |
| Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896) | Info |
| Hypotia colchicalis (Herrich-schäffer, 1851) | Info |
| Hypotia mauretanica (Leraut, 2007) | Info |
| Hypotia mauritanica (Leraut, 2004) | Info |
| Hypotia numidalis -> Hypotia colchicalis | Info |
| Species with I | Back Next | Top |
| Iambia jansei (Berio, 1966) | Info |
| Ilattia axis (Guenée, 1852) | Info |
| Infurcitinea marcunella (Rebel, 1910) | Info |
| Isturgia disputaria (Guenée, 1858) | Maltese Bloom | Info |
| Isturgia quadriplaga (Rothschild, 1921) | Info |
| Species with L | Back Next | Top |
| Lamellocossus aries -> Arctiocossus aries | Info |
| Leocyma appollinis (Guenée, 1852) | Info |
| Leoniloma convergens (Hampson, 1926) | Info |
| Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827) | The Cosmopolitan | Info |
| Lithostege fissurata (Mabille, 1888) | Info |
| Lophotidia brunnescens (Pinhey, 1968) | Info |
| Lygephila exsiccata -> Tathorhynchus exsiccata | Info |
| Species with M | Back Next | Top |
| Macropyralis gigantalis (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Marathyssa cuneata (Saalmüller, 1891) | Info |
| Masalia albiseriata -> Masalia decorata | Info |
| Masalia bimaculata (Moore, 1888) | Info |
| Masalia decorata (Moore, 1881) | Info |
| Masalia nubila -> Heliothis nubila | Info |
| Masalia rubristria (Hampson, 1903) | Info |
| Maxera marchalii (Boisduval, 1833) | Info |
| Maxera nigriceps -> Maxera marchalii | Info |
| Megalophycita albicostella (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Meganola reubeni (Agassiz, 2009) | Info |
| Meharia semilactea (Warren & Rothschild, 1905) | Info |
| Melanephia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) | Info |
| Metachrostis quinaria (Moore, 1881) | Info |
| Metopoceras duseutrei -> Metopoceras canroberti | Info |
| Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903) | Info |
| Mitrophrys magna (Walker, 1854) | Velda Pinemoth | Info |
| Mormogystia reibellii (Oberthür, 1876) | Info |
| Myrmecozela lambessella (Rebel, 1901) | Info |
| Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmuller, 1891) | Info |
| Species with N | Back Next | Top |
| Neaxestis mesogonia (Hampson, 1905) | Info |
| Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Negeta purpurascens (Hampson, 1912) | Info |
| Nomima prophanes (Durrant, 1916) | Info |
| Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) | Rush Veneer | Info |
| Nordmannis esculi () | Info |
| Nutmeg trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766) | Info |
| Species with O | Back Next | Top |
| Odontestis striata (Hampson, 1912) | Info |
| Odontocheilopteryx ferlina (Gurkovich & Zolotuhin, 2009) | Info |
| Ophiuche lividalis (Hübner, 1790) | Info |
| Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852) | Info |
| Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1773) | Green Drab moth | Info |
| Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939) | Info |
| Ozarba rubrivena (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Ozarba subtilimba (Berio, 1963) | Info |
| Ozarba variabilis (Berio, 1940) | Info |
| Species with P | Back Next | Top |
| Pandesma muricolor (Berio, 1966) | Info |
| Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Papilio aurora -> Colias heos | Info |
| Papilio demodocus (Esper, 1798) | Citrus Swallowtail | Info |
| Parachalciope benitensis (Holland, 1894) | Info |
| Pardoxia graellsi -> Pardoxia graellsii | Yellow Drab | Info |
| Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837) | Yellow Drab | Info |
| Paropta henleyi (Warren & Rothschild, 1905) | Info |
| Paropta pharaonis -> Alcterogystia nilotica | Info |
| Pediasia desertella -> Pediasia desertellus | Info |
| Pediasia desertellus (Lederer, 1855) | Info |
| Pediasia dolicanthia (Song & Chen In Chen, Song & Yuan, 2004) | Info |
| Penestoglossa mauretanica -> Penestoglossa marocanella | Info |
| Pericyma mauritanica (Hacker & Hausmann, 2010) | Info |
| Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Pericyma metaleuca (Hampson, 1913) | Info |
| Perissomastix agenjoi (G. Petersen, 1957) | Info |
| Perissomastix biskraella (Rebel, 1901) | Info |
| Phytometra viridaria (Clerck, 1759) | Small Purple-barred | Info |
| Pinacopterix eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829) | Info |
| Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829) | Info |
| Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860) | Info |
| Polydesma umbricola (Boisduval, 1833) | Monkeypod Moth | Info |
| Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) | Info |
| Polytela tanit -> Polytela cliens | Info |
| Polytelodes florifera (Walker, 1858) | Info |
| Pontia daplidice -> Pontia edusa | Bath White | Info |
| Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777) | Eastern Bath White | Info |
| Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829) | Desert White | Info |
| Prionofrontia ochrosia (Hampson, 1926) | Info |
| Prionofrontia politzari (Hacker & Hausmann, 2010) | Info |
| Pseudosterrha paulula (Swinhoe, 1886) | Info |
| Pseudozarba bipartita (Herrich-schäffer, 1850) | Info |
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| Raparna conicephala (Staudinger, 1870) | Info |
| Recophora canteneri (Duponchel, 1833) | Info |
| Rhabdophera arefacta (Swinhoe, 1884) | Info |
| Rhabdophera clathrum (Guenée, 1852) | Info |
| Rhabdophera hansali (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) | Info |
| Rhodobates algiricella (Rebel, 1901) | Info |
| Rhynchina leucodonta (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Species with S | Back Next | Top |
| Salma mauritanica (Amsel, 1953) | Info |
| Sarangesa coelius -> Sarangesa laelius | Grey Elfin | Info |
| Sarangesa laelioides -> Sarangesa laelius | Grey Elfin | Info |
| Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877) | Grey Elfin | Info |
| Sarangesa synestalmenus -> Sarangesa laelius | Grey Elfin | Info |
| Sarangesa tristis -> Sarangesa laelius | Grey Elfin | Info |
| Scopula donovani (Distant, 1892) | Info |
| Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827) | West African pink borer | Info |
| Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777) | Info |
| Spialia doris daphne (Evans, 1949) | Info |
| Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764) | Mountain Sandman | Info |
| Spodoptera cilium (Guenée, 1852) | Dark Mottled Willow | Info |
| Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857) | Nutgrass armyworm | Info |
| Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808) | Small Mottled Willow | Info |
| Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833) | Mediterranean Brocade | Info |
| Species with T | Back Next | Top |
| Tachosa fumata (Wallengren, 1860) | Info |
| Tarucus balkanica (Freyer, 1844) | Little Tiger Blue | Info |
| Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1844) | Balkan Pierrot | Info |
| Tarucus mediterraneae -> Tarucus rosacea | Balochistan Pierrot | Info |
| Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885) | Mediterranean Tiger Blue | Info |
| Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855) | Levant Blackneck | Info |
| Tenieta evae (Gozmany, 1967) | Info |
| Thiacidas meii (Hacker & Zilli, 2007) | Info |
| Thyridopsis monotona -> Epimetasia monotona | Info |
| Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775) | Slender Burnished Brass | Info |
| Trichophaga bipartitella -> Trichophaga robinsoni | Info |
| Trichophaga robinsoni (Gaedike & Karsholt, 2001) | Info |
| Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803) | Cabbage Looper | Info |
| Trichoplusia orichalcea -> Thysanoplusia orichalcea | Soybean looper | Info |
| Tuxentius balkanica (Freyer, 1843) | Info |
| Tytroca dispar (Püngeler, 1904) | Info |
| Tytroca leucoptera (Hampson, 1896) | Info |
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| Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902) | Info |
| Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902) | Info |
| Utetheisa callima (Linnaeus, 1758) | Crimson-speckled Flunkey | Info |
| Utetheisa pulchella -> Utetheisa callima | Crimson-speckled Flunkey | Info |
| Species with V | Back Next | Top |
| Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) | Cosmopolitan Painted Lady | Site |
| Species with W | Back Next | Top |
| Wiltshireocossus pulcher (Rungs, 1942) | Info |
| Wiltshirocossus aries (Püngeler, 1902) | Info |
| Species with X | Back Next | Top |
| Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794) | Info |
| Xanthodes brunnescens -> Lophotidia brunnescens | Info |
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| Zekelita leucodonta (Hampson, 1910) | Info |
| Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862) | Dark Grass Blue | Info |
| 325 Species in Lepidoptera for Mauritania listed |
