Location of Oman

Moths of Oman represent about 190 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 Oman.

Arctiidae

• Lepista arabica (Rebel, 1907)
• Siccia dudai Ivinskis & Saldaitis, 2008
• Teracotona murtafaa Wiltshire, 1980

Autostichidae

• Turatia iranica Gozmány, 2000

Coleophoridae

• Coleophora aegyptiacae Walsingham, 1907
• Coleophora arachnias Meyrick, 1922
• Coleophora aularia Meyrick, 1924
• Coleophora eilatica Baldizzone, 1994
• Coleophora jerusalemella Toll, 1942
• Coleophora microalbella Amsel, 1935
• Coleophora niphomesta Meyrick, 1917
• Coleophora omanica Baldizzone, 2007
• Coleophora sogdianae Baldizzone, 1994
• Coleophora teheranella Baldizzone, 1994
• Coleophora versurella Zeller, 1849

Cossidae

• Azygophleps larseni Yakovlev & Saldaitis, 2011
• Meharia acuta Wiltshire, 1982
• Meharia philbyi Bradley, 1952
• Meharia semilactea (Warren et Rothschild, 1905)
• Mormogystia proleuca (Hampson in Walsingham et Hampson, 1896)

Crambidae

• Heliothela ophideresana (Walker, 1863)

Geometridae

• Brachyglossina sciasmatica Brandt, 1941
• Cleora nana Hausmann & Skou, 2008
• Eupithecia mekrana Brandt, 1941
• Eupithecia ultimaria Boisduval, 1840
• Hemithea punctifimbria Warren, 1896
• Idaea eremica (Brandt, 1941)
• Idaea gallagheri Wiltshire, 1983
• Idaea granulosa (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)
• Idaea illustris (Brandt, 1941)
• Palaeaspilates sublutearia (Wiltshire, 1977)
• Pasiphila palaearctica (Brandt, 1938)
• Scopula caesaria (Walker, 1861)
• Traminda mundissima (Walker, 1861)
• Xanthorhoe rhodoides (Brandt, 1941)
• Xanthorhoe wiltshirei (Brandt, 1941)

Gracillariidae

• Phyllonorycter jabalshamsi de Prins, 2012

Lasiocampidae

• Sena augustasi Zolotuhin, Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2009

Limacodidae

• Deltoptera omana Wiltshire, 1976

Metarbelidae

• Salagena guichardi Wiltshire, 1980

Micronoctuidae

• Micronola wadicola Amsel, 1935

Nepticulidae

• Stigmella birgittae Gustafsson, 1985

Noctuidae

• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858)
• Achaea catella Guenée, 1852
• Acontia akbar Wiltshire, 1985
• Acontia asbenensis (Rothschild, 1921)
• Acontia basifera Walker, 1857
• Acontia binominata (Butler, 1892)
• Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856
• Acontia minuscula Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• Acontia peksi Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia philbyi Wiltshire, 1988
• Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)
• Acontia saldaitis Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• Acontia solitaria Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008
• Acontia tabberti Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2010
• Adisura callima Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Aegocera brevivitta Hampson, 1901
• Agrotis biconica Kollar, 1844
• Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Amyna axis Guenée, 1852
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
• Androlymnia clavata Hampson, 1910
• Anoba triangularis (Warnecke, 1938)
• Anomis flava (Fabricius, 1775)
• Anomis sabulifera (Guenée, 1852)
• Antarchaea conicephala (Staudinger, 1870)
• Antarchaea erubescens (Bang-Haas, 1910)
• Antarchaea fragilis (Butler, 1875)
• Anumeta spilota (Erschoff, 1874)
• Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Armada gallagheri Wiltshire, 1985
• Athetis pigra (Guenée, 1852)
• Brevipecten hypocornuta Hacker & Fibiger, 2007
• Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
• Caradrina eremicola (Plante, 1997)
• Caradrina soudanensis (Hampson, 1918)
• Caranilla uvarovi (Wiltshire, 1949)
• Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858])
• Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
• Clytie infrequens (Swinhoe, 1884)
• Clytie tropicalis Rungs, 1975
• Condica capensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Condica illecta Walker, 1865
• Condica viscosa (Freyer, 1831)
• Ctenoplusia fracta (Walker, 1857)
• Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)
• Drasteria kabylaria (Bang-Haas, 1906)
• Dysgonia angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)
• Eublemma anachoresis (Wallengren, 1863)
• Eublemma apicipunctalis (Brandt, 1939)
• Eublemma khonoides Wiltshire, 1980
• Eublemma odontophora Hampson, 1910
• Eublemma parva (Hübner, [1808])
• Eublemma roseana (Moore, 1881)
• Eublemma seminivea Hampson, 1896
• Eublemma siticuosa (Lederer, 1858)
• Eulocastra alfierii Wiltshire, 1948
• Eutelia adulatrix (Hübner, 1813)
• Feliniopsis consummata (Walker, 1857)
• Feliniopsis talhouki (Wiltshire, 1983)
• Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
• Hadjina tyriobaphes Wiltshire, 1983
• Haplocestra similis Aurivillius, 1910
• Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
• Heliocheilus confertissima (Walker, 1865)
• Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
• Heteropalpia exarata (Mabille, 1890)
• Heteropalpia robusta Wiltshire, 1988
• Heteropalpia vetusta (Walker, 1865)
• Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854
• Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859
• Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790)
• Hypena obacerralis Walker, [1859]
• Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, [1813])
• Hypotacha isthmigera Wiltshire, 1968
• Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
• Hypotacha raffaldii Berio, 1939
• Iambiodes postpallida Wiltshire, 1977
• Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
• Lophoptera arabica Hacker & Fibiger, 2006
• Lyncestoides unilinea (Swinhoe, 1885)
• Marathyssa cuneata (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Masalia galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)
• Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903)
• Mimasura dhofarica Wiltshire, 1985
• Mimasura larseni Wiltshire, 1985
• Mocis proverai Zilli, 2000
• Nagia natalensis (Hampson, 1902)
• Nimasia brachyura Wiltshire, 1982
• Oedicodia jarsisi Wiltshire, 1985
• Ophiusa dianaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)
• Oraesia emarginata (Fabricius, 1794)
• Oraesia intrusa (Krüger, 1939)
• Ozarba adducta Berio, 1940
• Ozarba atrifera Hampson, 1910
• Ozarba mesozonata Hampson, 1916
• Ozarba nyanza (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Ozarba phlebitis Hampson, 1910
• Ozarba socotrana Hampson, 1910
• Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)
• Pericyma metaleuca Hampson, 1913
• Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833
• Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Prionofrontia ochrosia Hampson, 1926
• Pseudozarba mesozona (Hampson, 1896)
• Rhynchina albiscripta Hampson, 1916
• Rhynchina coniodes Vári, 1962
• Rhynchodontodes larseni Wiltshire, 1983
• Sideridis chersotoides Wiltshire, 1956
• Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777)
• Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
• Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808)
• Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
• Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833)
• Stenosticta grisea Hampson, 1912
• Stenosticta sibensis Wiltshire, 1977
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Lederer, 1855)
• Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855
• Thysanoplusia exquisita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Trichoplusia ni (Hübner, [1803])
• Trichoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
• Tytroca balnearia (Distant, 1898)
• Ulotrichopus stertzi (Püngeler, 1907)
• Ulotrichopus tinctipennis (Hampson, 1902)
• Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)
• Zethesides bettoni (Butler, 1898)

Nolidae

• Bryophilopsis tarachoides Mabille, 1900
• Churia gallagheri Wiltshire, 1985
• Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
• Giaura dakkaki Wiltshire, 1986
• Neaxestis aviuncis Wiltshire, 1985
• Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Pterophoridae

• Agdistis arabica Amsel, 1958
• Agdistis nanodes Meyrick, 1906
• Agdistis olei Arenberger, 1976
• Agdistis omani Arenberger, 2008
• Arcoptilia gizan Arenberger, 1985
• Deuterocopus socotranus Rebel, 1907
• Diacrotricha lanceatus (Arenberger, 1986)
• Megalorhipida leptomeres (Meyrick, 1886)
• Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)

Tischeriidae

• Tischeria omani Puplesis & Diškus, 2003

Tortricidae

• Age onychistica Diakonoff, 1982
• Ancylis sederana Chrétien, 1915
• Bactra venosana (Zeller, 1847)
• Dasodis cladographa Diakonoff, 1983
• Fulcrifera refrigescens (Meyrick, 1924)

Xyloryctidae

• Eretmocera impactella (Walker, 1864)
• Scythris alhamrae Bengtsson, 2002
• Scythris amplexella Bengtsson, 2002
• Scythris cucullella Bengtsson, 2002
• Scythris elachistoides Bengtsson, 2002
• Scythris fissurella Bengtsson, 1997
• Scythris kebirella Amsel, 1935
• Scythris nipholecta Meyrick, 1924
• Scythris pangalactis Meyrick, 1933
• Scythris pollicella Bengtsson, 2002
• Scythris valgella Bengtsson, 2002

External links

• AfroMoths