Checklist of Superfamily Noctuoidea Latreille, 1809 (Moths)
for South Nigeria (Nigeria)
Class
| Insecta
Linnaeus, 1758
Insects, True insects | 42
248
358 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Subclass
| Pterygota
Lang, 1888
Winged insects | 42
248
358 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
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Infraclass
| Neoptera
van der Wulp, 1890
Modern Wing-folding insects | 42
248
358 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Superorder
| Holometabola
Heider, 1889
Holometabolous Insects | 39
238
349 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Order
| Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758
Butterflies, Lepidopterans, Moths | 25
212
312 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Suborder
| Glossata
Fabricius, 1775
Modern butterflies and moths | 25
212
312 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Infraorder
| Heteroneura
Tillyard, 1918
| 25
212
312 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Section
| Cossina
Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
| 13
163
254 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Subsection
| Bombyces
Scopoli, 1763
| 12
158
249 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
Superfamily
| Noctuoidea
Latreille, 1809
Moths, Owlet moths | 5
124
197 | Families
Genera
Species |
Taxom
|
List of families for South Nigeria
5 Families width 197 Species
Genera for South Nigeria
124 Genera with 197 Species
| Aburina Möschler, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Achaea Hübner, 1913 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Aegocera Latreille, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Agoma Kiriakoff, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Agrotis Ochsenheimer, 1911 | Cutworm | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Aiteta Walker, 1912 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Aletia Hübner, 1963 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Alpenus Walker, 1989 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Amata Fabricius, 1911 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Amerila Walker, 1911 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Amsacta Walker, 1916 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Anomis Hubner, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Anthophila Haworth, 1914 | Bees | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Aprosdocetos Kiriakoff, 1917 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Araeopteron Hampson, 1914 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Archithosia Birket-Smith, 1878 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Audea Walker, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Avatha Walker, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Avitta Walker, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Balacra Walker, 1912 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Bamra Moore, 1922 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Baniana Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Bastilla Swinhoe, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Batella Dall´Asta, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Blenina Walker, 1912 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Bocula Guenée, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Bonaberiana Strand, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Boscawenia Fletcher, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Bryophilopsis Hampson, 1912 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Bryothripa Hampson, 1912 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Calesia Guenée, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Callophisma Hampson, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Callopistria Hübner, 1911 | Fern Moths | 5 | Species | Taxom | | Catephia Ochsenheimer, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Chlorocalliope Kiriakoff, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Conigephyra Hübner, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Corgatha Walker, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Cragia Birket-Smith, 1901 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Crorema Walker, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Ctenusa Hampson, 1902 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Cyana Walker, 1922 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Dasychira Hübner, 1910 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Desmeocraera Wallengren, 1910 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Drepanopses Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Dysgonia Hübner, 1918 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Earias Hübner, 1905 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Egnasia Walker, 1926 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Eilema Hübner, 1911 | Lichen Moths | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Enispa Walker, 1910 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Episparis Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Ethiopica Hampson, 1909 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Euaethiops Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Eublemma Hübner, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Eudrapa Walker, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Euproctis Hübner, 1931 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Eurystauropsis Gaede, 1928 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Eutelia Hübner, 1912 | | 9 | Species | Taxom | | Eutimia Wallengren, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Facidia Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Geniascota Hampson, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Gracilodes Guenée, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Griveaudyria Viette, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Herpeperas Hampson, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Homodina Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Hyposada Hampson, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Isadelphina Hampson, 1926 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Janthinisca Kiriakoff, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Lacipa Hübner, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Laelia Stephens, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Lophocrama Hampson, 1912 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Loxioda Warren, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Lycophotia Hübner, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Macellopis Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Marbla Hübner, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Marcipa Walker, 1926 | | 5 | Species | Taxom | | Maurilia Möschler, 1918 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Mecodina Guenée, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Meganola Dyar, 1911 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Mesosciera Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Metachrostis Hübner, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Metaleptina Holland, 1905 | | 5 | Species | Taxom | | Mythimna Ochsenheimer, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Nagia Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Negeta Walker, 1905 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Neonegeta Hampson, 1905 | | 3 | Species | Taxom | | Nephelemorpha Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Niphosticta Turner, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Nola Leach, 1909 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Oglasa Walker, 1926 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Ophisma Guenée, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Oruza Walker, 1918 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Ozarba Walker, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Panilla Moore, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Parafodina Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Paralephana Hampson, 1926 | | 5 | Species | Taxom | | Paralpenus A. Watson, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Phaeoscia Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Phlogochroa Hampson, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Phytometra Haworth, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Plecoptera Guenée, 1926 | Stoneflies | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Poeonoma Tams & J. Bo..., 1953 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Prolymnia Hampson, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Rhesalides Prout, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Saroba Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Scalmicauda o´neili Janse, 1910 | | 4 | Species | Taxom | | Scranciola Gaede, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Selepa Moore, 1912 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Sesamia Guenée, 1953 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Spilosoma Curtis, 1905 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Steganiodes Hampson, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Stenarctia Aurivillius, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Tathodelta Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Tatorinia Butler, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Tavia Walker, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Taviodes Hampson, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Thacona Walker, 1910 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Thalatha Walker, 1911 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Thambeta Hübner, 1953 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Tolna Walker, 1913 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Trichopalpina Hampson, 1926 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Ugia Walker, 1926 | | 2 | Species | Taxom | | Westermannia Hübner, 1905 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Yelva Birket-Smith, 1965 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Zobida Birket-Smith, 1914 | | 1 | Species | Taxom |
Species list for South Nigeria
197 Species | Aburina tetragramma Hampson, 1926 | | | Achaea obvia Hampson, 1913 | | | Achaea schuetzei (Bryk, 1915) | ⇒ Achaea nigristriata Laporte, 1979 | | Achaea thermopera Hampson, 1913 | | | Aegocera humphreyi Hampson, 1911 | | | Agoma transita Jordan, 1913 | | | Agrotis bisignata (Hampson, 1911) | ⇒ Spodoptera mauritia Boisduval, 1833 | | Aiteta costiplaga Hampson, 1905 | | | Aiteta gamma Hampson, 1905 | | | Aiteta meterythra Hampson, 1905 | | | Aiteta veluta Hampson, 1912 | | | Aletia panarista Fletcher D. S., 1963 | | | Alpenus microsticta (Hampson, 1920) | ⇒ Alpenus microstictus Hampson, 1920 | | Alpenus thomasi A. Watson, 1989 | | | Amata lagosensis Hampson, 1907 | | | Amata tritonia Hampson, 1911 | | | Amerila castanea Hampson, 1911 | | | Amerila luteibarba Hampson, 1901 | | | Amerila metasarca Hampson, 1911 | | | Amerila sarconota Hampson, 1911 | | | Amsacta stygioides Rothschild, 1916 | | | Anomis microdonta Hampson, 1926 | | | Anthophila ludifica Meyrick, 1914 | | | Aprosdocetos inexpectata Rothschild, 1917 | | | Araeopteron ecphaea Hampson, 1914 | | | Archithosia costimacula Mabille, 1878 | | | Audea endophaea (Hampson, 1913) | ⇒ Audea hemihyala Karsch, 1896 | | Avatha ethiopica Hampson, 1913 | | | Avitta insignifica Hampson, 1926 | | | Avitta ionomesa Hampson, 1926 | | | Balacra humphreyi Rothschild, 1912 | | | Bamra delicata Hampson, 1922 | | | Baniana disticta Hampson, 1926 | | | Bastilla trogosema Hampson, 1913 | | | Batella acronyctoides Collenette, 1937 | | | Batella macrodonta Hering, 1926 | | | Blenina diagona Hampson, 1912 | | | Bocula ichthyuropis Hampson, 1926 | | | Bocula sticticraspis Hampson, 1926 | | | Bonaberiana picta Hampson, 1926 | | | Boscawenia polioplaga Hampson, 1910 | | | Bryophilopsis curvifera Hampson, 1912 | | | Bryophilopsis lunifera Hampson, 1912 | | | Bryothripa miophaea Hampson, 1912 | | | Calesia fulviceps Hampson, 1926 | | | Callophisma flavicornis Hampson, 1913 | | | Callopistria cyanopera Hampson, 1911 | | | Callopistria nana Hampson, 1911 | | | Callopistria nephrosticta Hampson, 1908 | | | Callopistria nigeriensis Hampson, 1918 | | | Callopistria thermochroa Hampson, 1911 | | | Catephia holophaea Hampson, 1926 | | | Catephia microcelis Hampson, 1926 | | | Chlorocalliope rivata Hampson, 1910 | | | Conigephyra rufiterga Möschler, 1910 | | | Corgatha porphyrea Hampson, 1910 | | | Cragia distigmata Hampson, 1901 | | | Crorema albida Hampson, 1910 | | | Ctenusa brevipecten (Hampson, 1902) | ⇒ Ctenusa pallida Hampson, 1902 | | Cyana farquharsoni Bethune-Baker, 1922 | | | Dasychira griseinubes Hampson, 1910 | | | Dasychira ilesha Collenette, 1931 | | | Dasychira laphyctes Collenette, 1937 | | | Dasychira umbricolora Hampson, 1910 | | | Desmeocraera atriguttata (Hampson, 1910) | ⇒ Desmeocraera latex Druce, 1901 | | Desmeocraera formosa Kiriakoff, 1958 | | | Desmeocraera glauca Gaede, 1928 | | | Desmeocraera leucosticta Hampson, 1910 | | | Drepanopses rufipicta Hampson, 1926 | | | Dysgonia perexcurvata Hampson, 1918 | | | Earias glaucescens Hampson, 1905 | | | Egnasia microtype Hampson, 1926 | | | Egnasia scotopasta Hampson, 1926 | | | Egnasia trogocraspia Hampson, 1926 | | | Eilema mesosticta Hampson, 1911 | | | Enispa albipuncta Hampson, 1910 | | | Enispa atriceps Hampson, 1910 | | | Enispa lycaugesia Hampson, 1910 | | | Episparis pyrocausta (Hampson, 1926) | ⇒ Episparis fenestrifera Bryk, 1915 | | Ethiopica polyastra Hampson, 1909 | | | Euaethiops cyanopasta Hampson, 1926 | | | Eublemma proleuca Hampson, 1910 | Neon Skimmer | | Eudrapa lepraota Hampson, 1926 | | | Eudrapa olivaria Hampson, 1926 | | | Euproctis ceramozona Collenette, 1931 | | | Eurystauropsis albidilinea Gaede, 1928 | | | Eutelia albiluna Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia cautabasis Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia chlorobasis Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia ferridorsata Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia holocausta Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia leucodelta Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia metasarca Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia ochricostata Hampson, 1905 | | | Eutelia porphyriota Hampson, 1912 | | | Eutimia bidentata Hampson, 1910 | | | Facidia luteilinea Hampson, 1926 | | | Geniascota lacteata Hampson, 1926 | | | Geniascota trichoptycha Hampson, 1926 | | | Gracilodes opisthenops Hampson, 1926 | | | Griveaudyria melochlora Hering, 1926 | | | Herpeperas lavendula Hampson, 1926 | | | Herpeperas phoenopasta Hampson, 1926 | | | Homodina argentifera Hampson, 1926 | | | Hyposada melanosticta Hampson, 1910 | | | Isadelphina cheilosema Hampson, 1926 | | | Isadelphina rufaria Hampson, 1926 | | | Isadelphina xylochroa Hampson, 1926 | | | Janthinisca niveiplaga Hampson, 1910 | | | Lacipa argyroleuca (Hampson, 1910) | ⇒ Lacipa gracilis Hopffer, 1857 | | Laelia straminea Hampson, 1910 | | | Lophocrama phoenicochlora Hampson, 1912 | | | Loxioda ectherma Hampson, 1926 | | | Lycophotia viridis Hampson, 1911 | | | Macellopis ustata Hampson, 1926 | | | Marbla affinis Hering, 1926 | | | Marcipa apicalis Hampson, 1926 | | | Marcipa dimera Hampson, 1926 | | | Marcipa molybdea Hampson, 1926 | | | Marcipa monosema Hampson, 1926 | | | Marcipa ruptisigna Hampson, 1926 | | | Maurilia atrirena Hampson, 1918 | | | Maurilia rufirena Hampson, 1918 | | | Mecodina ochrigrapta Hampson, 1926 | | | Meganola chionea Hampson, 1911 | | | Meganola perfusca Hampson, 1911 | | | Mesosciera rubrinotata Hampson, 1926 | | | Metachrostis phaeapera Hampson, 1910 | | | Metaleptina albilinea Hampson, 1912 | | | Metaleptina dileuca Hampson, 1912 | | | Metaleptina geminastra Hampson, 1905 | | | Metaleptina microcyma Hampson, 1905 | | | Metaleptina selenitis (Hampson, 1905) | ⇒ Metaleptina albibasis Holland, 1893 | | Mythimna atritorna Hampson, 1911 | | | Nagia evanescens Hampson, 1926 | | | Negeta approximans Hampson, 1912 | | | Negeta phaeopepla Hampson, 1905 | | | Negeta stalactitis Hampson, 1905 | | | Neonegeta purpurea Hampson, 1912 | | | Neonegeta trigonica Hampson, 1905 | | | Neonegeta xanthobasis Hampson, 1905 | | | Nephelemorpha semaphora Hampson, 1926 | | | Niphosticta stigmagrapta Hampson, 1926 | | | Nola apicalis Hampson, 1903 | | | Nola atripuncta Hampson, 1909 | | | Nola omphalota Hampson, 1903 | | | Nola phaeocraspis Hampson, 1909 | | | Oglasa holophaea Hampson, 1926 | | | Oglasa phaeonephele Hampson, 1926 | | | Oglasa rufimedia Hampson, 1926 | | | Oglasa tessellata Hampson, 1926 | | | Ophisma teterrima Hampson, 1913 | | | Oruza dolichognatha Hampson, 1918 | | | Ozarba rubrivena Hampson, 1910 | | | Panilla xylonea Hampson, 1926 | | | Parafodina ectrogia Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralephana camptocera Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralephana incurvata Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralephana leucopis Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralephana metaphaea Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralephana patagiata Hampson, 1926 | | | Paralpenus flavizonata Hampson, 1911 | | | Phaeoscia canipars Hampson, 1926 | | | Phlogochroa albiguttula Hampson, 1926 | | | Phlogochroa melanomesa Hampson, 1926 | | | Phytometra nyctichroa Hampson, 1926 | | | Plecoptera geminilinea Hampson, 1926 | | | Poeonoma similis Tams & J. Bo..., 1953 | | | Prolymnia atrifera Hampson, 1911 | | | Rhesalides nigeriensis Hampson, 1926 | | | Saroba isocyma Hampson, 1926 | | | Scalmicauda ectoleuca Hampson, 1910 | | | Scalmicauda macrosema Kiriakoff, 1959 | | | Scalmicauda vinacea Kiriakoff, 1959 | | | Scalmicauda xanthogyna Hampson, 1910 | | | Scranciola rufula Hampson, 1910 | | | Selepa leucograpta Hampson, 1912 | | | Sesamia botanephaga Tams & J. Bo..., 1953 | | | Spilosoma metaleuca Hampson, 1905 | | | Steganiodes mesophaea Hampson, 1910 | | | Stenarctia griseipennis Hampson, 1911 | | | Tathodelta furvitincta Hampson, 1926 | | | Tatorinia pallidipennis Hampson, 1926 | | | Tatorinia rufipennis Hampson, 1926 | | | Tavia nana Hampson, 1926 | | | Taviodes congenita Hampson, 1926 | | | Taviodes excisa Hampson, 1926 | | | Thacona leucopera Hampson, 1910 | | | Thalatha occidens Hampson, 1911 | | | Thambeta haigi Collenette, 1953 | | | Tolna sinifera Hampson, 1913 | | | Trichopalpina zethesia Hampson, 1926 | | | Ugia duplicilinea Hampson, 1926 | | | Ugia straminilinea Hampson, 1926 | | | Westermannia leucogonia (Hampson, 1905) | ⇒ Westermannia anchorita Holland, 1893 | | Yelva obscura Birket-Smith, 1965 | | | Zobida jacobsi Hampson, 1914 | |
Subnodes of Noctuoidea with occurrences in South Nigeria | Family | Erebidae
Leach, 1815
Erebid Moths, Lichen Moths, Litter moths, Tiger Moths, Underwings, Wasp Moths | 57
74 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Euteliidae
Grote, 1882
Euteliid Moths | 1
9 | Genus
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Noctuidae
Latreille, 1809
Armyworms, Cutworm Moths And Allies, Cutworms, Dagger moths, Miller Moths, Noctuid moths, Owlet Moths, Underwing moths, Underwings | 44
70 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Nolidae
Hampson, 1894
Hatted Caterpillars, Nolid moths, Tuft moths, Tufted Moths | 12
28 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Notodontidae
Stephens, 1829
Bag Shelter Moths, Kitten moths, Kittens, Notodontid moths, Processionary Caterpillars, Prominent Moths, Prominents | 10
16 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
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