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

• Amata alicia (Butler, 1876)
• Apisa subargentea Joicey & Talbot, 1921
• Asura gigantea Kühne, 2007
• Asura mutabilis Kühne, 2007
• Balacra compsa (Jordan, 1904)
• Balacra rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910)
• Balacra rubrostriata (Aurivillius, 1892)
• Cragia adiastola (Kiriakoff, 1958)
• Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
• Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900
• Metarctia lateritia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Nyctemera itokina (Aurivillius, 1904)
• Pseudothyretes kamitugensis (Dufrane, 1945)
• Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Crambidae

• Diasemia lunalis Gaede, 1916
• Orphanostigma excisa (Martin, 1956)
• Psara cryptolepis (Martin, 1956)
• Udea ferrugalis (Hübner, 1796)

Eupterotidae

• Jana fletcheri Berger, 1980
• Jana roseata Rothschild, 1917
• Janomima dannfelti (Aurivillius, 1893)
• Stenoglene obtusus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886)

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

• Mountelgonia urundiensis Lehmann, 2013

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

• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)

Saturniidae

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

Tineidae

• Ceratophaga vastellus (Zeller, 1852)
• Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
• Perissomastix pantsa Gozmány, 1967

References

External links

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