# List of Lepidoptera of Cape Verde

Lepidoptera of Cape Verde represent about 280 known species. A total of 252 moth species have been recorded. Twenty-eight species of butterflies are known from Cape Verde, one of which is endemic. 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) (questionable)
* Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)
* Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
* Deudorix dinomenes Grose-Smith, 1887 (questionable)
* Euchrysops osiris (Hopffer, 1855)
* Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Tarucus (Fabricius, 1793)
* Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

### Nymphalidae

* Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773)
* Danaus chrysippus (Cramer, 1777)
* Nymphalis polychloros (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
* Junonia oenone (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Vanessa vulcania (Godart, 1819)
* Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Papilionidae

* Papilio demodocus Esper, 1798

### Pieridae

* Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) (questionable)
* Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
* Colias croceus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
* Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) (questionable)
* Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) (questionable)
* Eurema brigitta (Cramer, 1780)
* Eurema floricola (Boisduval, 1833) (questionable)
* Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Eurema senegalensis (Boisduval, 1836) (questionable)
* Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Pontia glauconome Klug, 1829

### Satyrinae

* Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)

## Moths
### Bedelliidae

* Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

### Coleophoridae

* Coleophora creola Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2015

### Cosmopterigidae

* Anatrachyntis simplex (Walsingham, 1891)
* Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)

### Crambidae

* Achyra coelatalis (Walker, 1859)
* Achyra nudalis (Hübner, 1796)
* Cataonia mauritanica Amsel, 1953
* Condylorrhiza zyphalis (Viette, 1958)
* Cornifrons ulceratalis Lederer, 1858
* Cynaeda dentalis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
* Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, 1847
* Euclasta insularis Viette, 1958
* Eudonia fogoalis Derra, 2008
* Eudonia lindbergalis Viette, 1958
* Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)
* Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
* Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832)
* Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833)
* Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
* Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
* Notarcha quaternalis (Zeller, 1852)
* Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775)
* Orphanostigma abruptalis (Walker, 1859)
* Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
* Pediasia strenua Bassi, 1992
* Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

### Depressariidae

* Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)

### Erebidae

* Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
* Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
* Achaea finita (Guenée, 1852)
* Achaea infinita (Guenée, 1852)
* Achaea violaceofascia (Saalmüller, 1891)
* Anomis auragoides (Guenée, 1852)
* Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
* Anticarsia rubricans (Boisduval, 1833)
* Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)
* Audea melaleuca Walker, 1865
* Crypsotidia maculifera (Staudinger, 1898)
* Crypsotidia mesosema Hampson, 1913
* Crypsotidia remanei Wiltshire, 1977
* Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
* Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
* Eilema aistleitneri Cerny, 2013
* Ericeia congregata (Walker, 1858)
* Ericeia inangulata (Guenée, 1852)
* Eublemma apicimacula (Mabille, 1880)
* Eublemma baccatrix Hacker, 2019
* Eublemma cochylioides (Guenée, 1852)
* Eublemma ecthaemata Hampson, 1896
* Eublemma exigua (Walker, 1858)
* Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)
* Eublemma mesophaea Hampson, 1910
* Eublemma parva (Hübner, 1808)
* Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
* Eublemma spirogramma Rebel, 1912
* Gesoniodes nigripalpa (Wiltshire, 1977)
* Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
* Grammodes congenita Walker, 1858
* Grammodes exclusiva Pagenstecher, 1907
* Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
* Hipoepa fractalis (Guenée, 1854)
* Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854
* Hypena conscitalis Walker, 1866
* Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
* Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
* Hypena semilutea (Snellen, 1872)
* Hypena strigatus (Fabricius, 1798)
* Hypena varialis Walker, 1866
* Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
* Lygephila pastinum (Treitschke, 1826)
* Maxera marchalii (Boisduval, 1833)
* Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
* Mesogenea varians Hampson, 1902
* Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858)
* Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)
* Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
* Nodaria externalis Guenée, 1854
* Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, 1777)
* Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
* Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
* Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
* Phytometra melanosticta Hacker, 2016
* Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
* Serrodes partita (Fabricius, 1775)
* Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
* Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
* Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
* Tathorhynchus leucobasis Bethune-Baker, 1911
* Tathorhynchus troberti (Guenée, 1852)
* Trigonodes hyppasia (Cramer, 1779)
* Ulotrichopus primulina (Hampson, 1902)
* Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Gelechiidae

* Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921
* Aristotelia benedenii (Weyenbergh, 1873)
* Brachmia convolvuli (Walsingham, 1907)
* Helcystogramma lamprostoma (Zeller, 1847)
* Ornativalva heluanensis (Debski, 1913)
* Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844)
* Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873)
* Scrobipalpa aptatella (Walker, 1864)
* Zizyphia cleodorella Chrétien, 1908

### Geometridae

* Chiasmia sudanata (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
* Comibaena leucospilata (Walker, 1863)
* Comostolopsis stillata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
* Eucrostes beatificata (Walker, 1863)
* Eucrostes disparata Walker, 1861
* Gymnoscelis daniloi Hausmann, 2009
* Gymnoscelis lindbergi Herbulot, 1957
* Isturgia catalaunaria (Guenée, 1858)
* Isturgia deerraria (Walker, 1861)
* Mesocolpia nanula (Mabille, 1900)
* Microloxia aistleitneri Hausmann, 2009
* Microloxia herbaria (Hübner, 1818)
* Microloxia ruficornis Warren, 1897
* Orthonama obstipata (Fabricius, 1794)
* Pasiphila derasata (Bastelberger, 1905)
* Phaiogramma faustinata (Millière, 1868)
* Pingasa hypoleucaria (Guenée, 1862)
* Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)
* Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)
* Prasinocyma germinaria (Guenée, 1857)
* Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)
* Scopula paneliusi Herbulot, 1957
* Scopula retracta (Hausmann, 2006)
* Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1858
* Traminda vividaria (Walker, 1861)

### Gracillariidae

* Caloptilia soyella (van Deventer, 1904)
* Phodoryctis caerulea (Meyrick, 1912)

### Noctuidae

* Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
* Acontia conifrons Aurivillius, 1879
* Acontia feae (Berio, 1937)
* Acontia gratiosa Wallengren, 1856
* Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
* Acontia insocia (Walker, 1858)
* Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
* Adisura callima Bethune-Baker, 1911
* Agrotis aistleitneri Behounek & Speidel, 2009
* Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
* Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Agrotis spinifera (Hübner, 1808)
* Agrotis subspinifera (Hampson, 1903)
* Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)
* Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
* Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
* Androlymnia clavata Hampson, 1910
* Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
* Athetis ochreosignata Aurivillius, 1910
* Athetis pigra (Guenée, 1852)
* Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
* Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)
* Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
* Caradrina flava Oberthür, 1876
* Chasmina tibialis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Chasmina vestae (Guenée, 1852)
* Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858)
* Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1798)
* Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
* Condica conducta (Walker, 1857)
* Condica pauperata (Walker, 1858)
* Cornutiplusia circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
* Euxoa admirabilis Hacker & Schreier, 2010
* Euxoa canariensis Rebel, 1902
* 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 pluristriata (Berio, 1937)
* Iambiodes incerta (Rothschild, 1913)
* Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
* Maliattha sahelica Hacker, 2016
* Maliattha signifera (Walker, 1857)
* Mythimna languida (Walker, 1858)
* Mythimna natalensis (Butler, 1875)
* Mythimna poliastis (Hampson, 1902)
* Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller, 1891)
* Mythimna vilis (Gaede, 1916)
* Oederemia simplivalva Hacker & Schreier, 2010
* Ozarba adducta Berio, 1940
* Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940
* Ozarba phlebitis Hampson, 1910
* Ozarba rubrivena Hampson, 1910
* Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837)
* Peridroma saucia (Hübner, 1808)
* Pseudozarba bipartita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850)
* Pseudozarba expatriata (Hampson, 1914)
* Pseudozarba opella (Swinhoe, 1885)
* Saalmuellerana media (Walker, 1857)
* Sesamia calamistis Hampson, 1910
* Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)
* Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
* Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
* Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
* Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
* Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, 1803)
* Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)
* Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

### Nolidae

* Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
* Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
* Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
* Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)

### Plutellidae

* Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Praydidae

* Prays citri (Millière, 1873)

### Pterophoridae

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

### Pyralidae

* Cadra figulilella (Gregson, 1871)
* Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866)
* Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Millière, 1867)
* Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)
* Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832)
* Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Phycita pachylepidella Hampson, 1896
* Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)
* Susia uberalis (Swinhoe, 1884)
* Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885

### Scythrididae

* Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
* Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
* Scythris fissurella Bengtsson, 1997

### Sphingidae

* Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Agrius cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
* Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)
* Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780)
* Hyles tithymali (Boisduval, 1834)
* Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1821)

### Tineidae

* Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)

### Tortricidae

* Ancylis lutescens Meyrick, 1912
* Coniostola stereoma (Meyrick, 1912)
* Cydia choleropa (Meyrick, 1913)
* Eccopsis praecedens Walsingham, 1897
* Eccopsis wahlbergiana Zeller, 1852
* Fulcrifera boavistae Razowski, 2015
* Strepsicrates rhothia (Meyrick, 1910)
* Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)