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