Moths of Mali represent only 23 known moth species. 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 Mali.
Arctiidae
- Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781)
- Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)
Geometridae
- Zamarada nasuta Warren, 1897
Lasiocampidae
- Cleopatrina bilinea (Walker, 1855)
- Lasiocampa bilineata (Mabille, 1884)
- Pallastica lateritia (Hering, 1928)
- Streblote panda Hübner, 1822
Noctuidae
- Abrostola confusa Dufay, 1958
- Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
- Acontia buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
- Acontia citrelinea Bethune-Baker, 1911
- Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852
- Acontia semialba Hampson, 1910
- Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
- Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
- Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
- Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)
Psychidae
- Acanthopsyche carbonarius Karsch, 1900
Pterophoridae
- Hepalastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873)
Pyraloidea
- Analyta calligrammalis Mabille, 1879
- Ancylolomia simplella de Joannis, 1913
- Autocharis marginata Guillermet, 1996
- Biafra concinnella (Ragonot, 1888)
- Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854
- Botyodes diniasalis (Walker, 1859)
- Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
- Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892
- Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
- Glyphodes bitriangulalis Gaede, 1917
- Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859)
- Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)
- Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, 1866)
- Hypsopygia bamakoensis Leraut, 2006
- Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888
- Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787)
- Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)
- Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852)
- Pardomima callixantha Martin, 1955
- Parotis impia (Meyrick, 1934)
- Patania balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
- Pioneabathra olesialis (Walker, 1859)
- Pyralis pictalis (Curtis, 1834)
- Pyrausta phoenicealis (Hübner, 1818)
- Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)
- Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
- Syllepte ovialis (Walker, 1859)
- Synclera traducalis (Zeller, 1852)
- Terastia africana Sourakov, 2015
- Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852
- Ulopeza flavicepsalis Hampson, 1912
Tineidae
- Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
- Endromarmata lutipalpis (Meyrick, 1922)
- Hyperbola pastoralis (Meyrick, 1931)
Tortricidae
- Cosmorrhyncha acrocosma (Meyrick, 1908)
References
- Poltavsky, A.N., Kravchenko, V.D., Traore, M.M., Traore, S.F., Gergely, P., Witt, Th.J., Sulak, H., Beck, R.H.-T., Junnila, A., Revay, E.E., Doumbia, S., Beier, J.C. & Müller, G.C. 2018. Biodiversity and seasonality of Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) in the woody savannah belt in Mali. Israel Journal of Entomology 48 (1): 69–78. Article