Benin moths represent about 25 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 Benin.
Anomoeotidae
edit- Anomoeotes infuscata Talbot, 1929
Alucitidae
edit- Alucita chloracta (Meyrick, 1908)
Arctiidae
edit- Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)
Cossidae
edit- Phragmataecia psyche (Le Cerf, 1919)
Crambidae
edit- Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798)
Geometridae
edit- Zamarada vulpina Warren, 1897
Gracillariidae
edit- Acrocercops hedymopa Turner, 1913
Noctuidae
edit- Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
- Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
- Metagarista maenas (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
- Sarothroceras banaka (Plötz, 1880)
Notodontidae
edit- Epicerura tamsi Kiriakoff, 1963
- Pseudoscrancia africana (Holland, 1893)
Saturniidae
edit- Aurivillius horsini Bouvier, 1927
- Imbrasia obscura (Butler, 1878)
- Nudaurelia eblis Strecker, 1876
- Nudaurelia emini (Butler, 1888)
Sesiidae
edit- Tipulamima sexualis (Hampson, 1910)
- Trichocerata bicolor (Le Cerf, 1917)
Tineidae
edit- Cimitra fetialis (Meyrick, 1917)
- Syncalipsis typhodes (Meyrick, 1917)
- Tiquadra cultrifera Meyrick, 1914
Tortricidae
edit- Rubrograptis recrudescentia Razowski, 1981
- Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913)