There are about 50 known moth species in Chad. 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 Chad.

Arctiidae

• Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864)
• Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892

Coleophoridae

• Nasamonica oxymorpha Meyrick, 1922

Geometridae

• Brachyglossina tibbuana Herbulot, 1965
• Heterostegane monilifera Prout, 1915
• Neromia pulvereisparsa (Hampson, 1896)
• Trimetopia aetheraria Guenée, 1858
• Zamarada minimaria Swinhoe, 1895

Lasiocampidae

• Pachymetana joiceyi (Tams, 1925)

Metarbelidae

• Moyencharia mineti Lehmann, 2013
• Salagena cuprea Gaede, 1929

Noctuidae

• Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
• Agrotis sardzeana Brandt, 1941
• Callhyccoda mirei Herbulot & Viette, 1952
• Cardepia sociabilis de Graslin, 1850
• Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900)
• Cyligramma latona (Cramer, 1775)
• Diparopsis watersi (Rothschild, 1901)
• Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)
• Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775)
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007

Nolidae

• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)

Notodontidae

• Desmeocraera bitioides (Holland, 1893)

Pterophoridae

• Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus albidus (Zeller, 1852)
• Pterophorus candidalis (Walker, 1864)
• Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)
• Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Saturniidae

• Aurivillius xerophilus Rougeot, 1977
• Bunaeopsis hersilia (Westwood, 1849)
• Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
• Orthogonioptilum chalix Jordan, 1922
• Pseudimbrasia deyrollei (J. Thomson, 1858)
• Pseudobunaea heyeri (Weymer, 1896)

Sphingidae

• Neopolyptychus prionites (Rothschild & Jordan, 1916)

References

External links

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