There are about 1400 known moth species of Nigeria. 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 from Nigeria.
Anomoeotidae Staphylinochrous pygmaea Bethune-Baker, 1911 Staphylinochrous whytei Butler, 1894
Arctiidae Acantharctia metaleuca Hampson, 1901 Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865) Acantharctia nivea Aurivillius, 1900 Acanthofrontia anacantha Hampson, 1914 Afraloa bifurca (Walker, 1855) Afrasura dubitabilis Durante, 2009 Afrasura emma Durante, 2009 Afrasura hieroglyphica (Bethune-Baker, 1911) Afrasura indecisa (Walker, 1869) Afrasura numida (Holland, 1893) Afrasura obliterata (Walker, 1864) Afrasura rivulosa (Walker, 1854) Afroarctia sjostedti (Aurivillius, 1900) Afrospilarctia flavida (Bartel, 1903) Afrowatsonius marginalis (Walker, 1855) Aloa moloneyi (Druce, 1887) Alpenus affiniola (Strand, 1919) Alpenus intacta (Hampson, 1916) Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898) Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, 1781) Alpenus microsticta (Hampson, 1920) Alpenus nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908) Alpenus thomasi Watson, 1988 Amata borguensis (Hampson, 1901) Amata interniplaga (Mabille, 1890) Amata lagosensis (Hampson, 1907) Amata tritonia (Hampson, 1911) Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901) Amerila castanea (Hampson, 1911) Amerila fennia (Druce, 1887) Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901) Amerila metasarca (Hampson, 1911) Amerila nigroapicalis (Aurivillius, 1900) Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903) Amerila pannosa (Grünberg, 1908) Amerila puella (Fabricius, 1793) Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910) Amerila rothi (Rothschild, 1910) Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780) Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880 Amphicallia pactolicus (Butler, 1888) Amsacta bicoloria (Gaede, 1916) Amsacta latimarginalis Rothschild, 1933 Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855 Anapisa lamborni (Rothschild, 1913) Anapisa monotica (Holland, 1893) Archilema cinderella (Kiriakoff, 1958) Archilema subumbrata (Holland, 1893) Archilema uelleburgensis (Strand, 1912) Archilema vilis Birket-Smith, 1965 Archithosia costimacula (Mabille, 1878) Archithosia duplicata Birket-Smith, 1965 Archithosia flavifrontella (Strand, 1912) Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912) Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847) Argina leonina (Walker, 1865) Balacra batesi Druce, 1910 Balacra daphaena (Hampson, 1898) Balacra ehrmanni (Holland, 1893) Balacra flavimacula Walker, 1856 Balacra herona (Druce, 1887) Balacra humphreyi Rothschild, 1912 Balacra preussi (Aurivillius, 1904) Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892 Balacra rubricincta Holland, 1893 Binna penicillata Walker, 1865 Binna scita (Walker, 1865) Caripodia albescens (Hampson, 1907) Caryatis hersilia Druce, 1887 Caryatis phileta (Drury, 1782) Caryatis syntomina Butler, 1878 Cragia distigmata (Hampson, 1901) Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893 Creatonotos punctivitta (Walker, 1854) Crocosia phaeocraspis Hampson, 1914 Cyana flammeostrigata Karisch, 2003 Cyana rubritermina (Bethune-Baker, 1911) Disparctia vittata (Druce, 1898) Eilema albidula (Walker, 1864) Eilema leia (Hampson, 1901) Eilema mesosticta Hampson, 1911 Eilema minutissima Bethune-Baker, 1911 Epilacydes scita (Walker, 1865) Epitoxis borguensis Hampson, 1901 Estigmene rothi Rothschild, 1910 Estigmene unilinea Rothschild, 1910 Euchromia guineensis (Fabricius, 1775) Euchromia lethe (Fabricius, 1775) Logunovium nigricosta (Holland, 1893) Logunovium scortillum Wallengren, 1875 Meganaclia sippia (Plötz, 1880) Melisa diptera (Walker, 1854) Metarctia didyma Kiriakoff, 1957 Metarctia flavivena Hampson, 1901 Metarctia haematica Holland, 1893 Metarctia johanna (Kiriakoff, 1979) Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860) Muxta xanthopa (Holland, 1893) Nanna ceratopygia Birket-Smith, 1965 Nanna diplisticta (Bethune-Baker, 1911) Nanna eningae (Plötz, 1880) Neuroxena fulleri (Druce, 1883) Neuroxena funereus (Rothschild, 1933) Neuroxena medioflavus (Rothschild, 1935) Neuroxena obscurascens (Strand, 1909) Nyctemera acraeina Druce, 1882 Nyctemera apicalis (Walker, 1854) Nyctemera itokina (Aurivillius, 1904) Nyctemera restrictum (Butler, 1894) Nyctemera xanthura (Plötz, 1880) Ovenna guineacola (Strand, 1912) Ovenna simplex Birket-Smith, 1965 Ovenna subgriseola (Strand, 1912) Ovenna vicaria (Walker, 1854) Paralpenus flavizonata (Hampson, 1911) Phryganopsis asperatella (Walker, 1864) Phryganopsis cinerella (Wallengren, 1860) Poliosia nigrifrons Hampson, 1900 Pseudothyretes perpusilla (Walker, 1856) Pusiola aureola Birket-Smith, 1965 Pusiola celida (Bethune-Baker, 1911) Pusiola minutissima (Kiriakoff, 1958) Radiarctia lutescens (Walker, 1854) Rhipidarctia conradti (Oberthür, 1911) Rhipidarctia invaria (Walker, 1856) Rhipidarctia postrosea (Rothschild, 1913) Siccia conformis Hampson, 1914 Spilosoma aurantiaca (Holland, 1893) Spilosoma batesi (Rothschild, 1910) Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910) Spilosoma castelli Rothschild, 1933 Spilosoma crossi (Rothschild, 1910) Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855 Spilosoma holoxantha (Hampson, 1907) Spilosoma immaculata Bartel, 1903 Spilosoma karschi Bartel, 1903 Spilosoma metaleuca (Hampson, 1905) Spilosoma occidens (Rothschild, 1910) Spilosoma rava (Druce, 1898) Spilosoma sinefascia (Hampson, 1916) Spilosoma togoensis Bartel, 1903 Stenarctia griseipennis Hampson, 1911 Stenarctia rothi Rothschild, 1933 Teracotona buryi Rothschild, 1910 Tesma nigrapex (Strand, 1912) Trichaeta schultzei Aurivillius, 1905 Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758) Yelva obscura Birket-Smith, 1965 Zobida trinitas (Strand, 1912)
Bombycidae Ocinara ficicola (Westwood & Ormerod, 1889)
Brahmaeidae Dactyloceras swanzii (Butler, 1871)
Choreutidae Brenthia octogemmifera Walsingham, 1897 Choreutis inspirata Meyrick, 1916
Cosmopterigidae Gisilia sclerodes (Meyrick, 1909)
Cossidae Azygophleps albovittata Bethune-Baker, 1908 Azygophleps inclusa (Walker, 1856) Azygophleps melanonephele Hampson, 1910 Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder, 1874 Phragmataecia fuscifusa Hampson, 1910 Phragmataecia sericeata Hampson, 1910 Phragmataecia pelostema (Hering, 1923) Xyleutes biatra (Hampson, 1910) Xyleutes polioplaga (Hampson, 1910)
Crambidae Adelpherupa flavescens Hampson, 1919 Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852) Ancylolomia chrysargyria Hampson, 1919 Ancylolomia holochrea Hampson, 1919 Ancylolomia irrorata Hampson, 1919 Ancylolomia ophiralis Hampson, 1919 Bissetia poliella (Hampson, 1919) Bocchoris labarinthalis Hampson, 1912 Cadarena sinuata (Fabricius, 1781) Calamotropha diodonta (Hampson, 1919) Charltona actinialis Hampson, 1919 Charltona albimixtalis Hampson, 1919 Charltona interstitalis Hampson, 1919 Chilo costifusalis (Hampson, 1919) Chilo mesoplagalis (Hampson, 1919) Chilo perfusalis (Hampson, 1919) Chilo psammathis (Hampson, 1919) Cirrhochrista grabczewskyi E. Hering, 1903 Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833) Coniesta ignefusalis (Hampson, 1919) Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1895) Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875) Crambus mesombrellus Hampson, 1919 Desmia incomposita (Bethune-Baker, 1909) Dichocrocis xanthoplagalis Hampson, 1912 Diploptalis metallescens Hampson, 1919 Filodes normalis Hampson, 1912 Haimbachia proalbivenalis (Błeszyński, 1961) Heliothela ophideresana (Walker, 1863) Hyalea africalis Hampson, 1912 Lamprosema acyperalis (Hampson, 1912) Mesolia albimaculalis Hampson, 1919 Mesolia microdontalis (Hampson, 1919) Metasia arida Hampson, 1913 Metasia perirrorata Hampson, 1913 Mimudea ignitalis (Hampson, 1913) Mimudea xanthographa (Hampson, 1913) Nosophora trogobasalis (Hampson, 1912) Obtusipalpis brunneata Hampson, 1919 Omiodes indicata (Fabricius, 1775) Ostrinia erythrialis (Hampson, 1913) Paratraea plumbipicta Hampson, 1919 Parerupa bipunctalis (Hampson, 1919) Parerupa distictalis (Hampson, 1919) Patissa fulvicepsalis Hampson, 1919 Patissa monostidzalis Hampson, 1919 Phostria tetrastictalis (Hampson, 1912) Pilocrocis cuprealis Hampson, 1912 Prionapteryx rubricalis Hampson, 1919 Prionotalis peracutella Hampson, 1919 Prochoristis calamochroa (Hampson, 1919) Pseudocatharylla argenticilia (Hampson, 1919) Pseudocatharylla peralbellus (Hampson, 1919) Pseudonoorda distigmalis (Hampson, 1913) Pycnarmon sexpunctalis (Hampson, 1912) Pyrausta melanocera Hampson, 1913 Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775) Sufetula nigrescens Hampson, 1912 Sufetula sufetuloides (Hampson, 1919) Ulopeza conigeralis Zeller, 1852 Ulopeza nigricostata Hampson, 1912
Drepanidae Callidrepana amaura (Warren, 1901) Callidrepana macnultyi Watson, 1965 Callidrepana serena Watson, 1965 Epicampoptera pallida (Tams, 1925) Epicampoptera strandi Bryk, 1913 Gonoreta contracta (Warren, 1897) Gonoreta cymba Watson, 1965 Gonoreta gonioptera (Hampson, 1914) Gonoreta opacifinis Watson, 1965 Isospidia angustipennis (Warren, 1904) Negera confusa Walker, 1855 Negera disspinosa Watson, 1965 Negera natalensis (Felder, 1874) Spidia excentrica Strand, 1912 Spidia fenestrata Butler, 1878 Spidia inangulata Watson, 1965 Spidia subviridis (Warren, 1899) Uranometra oculata (Holland, 1893)
Eupterotidae Acrojana salmonea Rothschild, 1932 Drepanojana fasciata Aurivillius, 1893 Jana aurivilliusi Rothschild, 1917 Phiala cunina Cramer, 1780 Stenoglene bipartita (Rothschild, 1917) Stenoglene citrinus (Druce, 1886) Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886) Vianga magnifica (Rothschild, 1917)
Gelechiidae Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844) Ptilothyris purpurea Walsingham, 1897 Theatrocopia roseoviridis Walsingham, 1897
Geometridae Acrostatheusis apicitincta Prout, 1915 Agathia elenaria Swinhoe, 1904 Agathia multiscripta Warren, 1898 Agathia pauper Warren, 1904 Aletis helcita (Linnaeus, 1763) Aletis vicina Gaede, 1917 Androzeugma tenuis (Warren, 1898) Anoectomychus pudens (Swinhoe, 1904) Antharmostes marginata (Warren, 1897) Antharmostes mesoleuca Warren, 1899 Antitrygodes dysmorpha Prout, 1915 Apatadelpha biocellaria (Walker, 1863) Aplochlora invisibilis Warren, 1897 Archichlora devoluta (Walker, 1861) Archichlora marcescens Warren, 1904 Archichlora marginata (Warren, 1902) Archichlora pulveriplaga (Warren, 1898) Archichlora viridimacula Warren, 1898 Azyx consocia (Warren, 1899) Bathycolpodes acoelopa Prout, 1912 Bathycolpodes excavata (Warren, 1898) Bathycolpodes subfuscata (Warren, 1902) Bathycolpodes vegeta Prout, 1912 Biston abruptaria (Walker, 1869) Biston antecreta (Prout, 1938) Biston subocularia (Mabille, 1893) Cabera glabra (Warren, 1904) Cartaletis forbesi (Druce, 1884) Chiasmia albivia (Prout, 1915) Chiasmia conturbata (Warren, 1898) Chiasmia fulvisparsa (Warren, 1897) Chiasmia impar (Warren, 1897) Chiasmia majestica (Warren, 1901) Chiasmia nana (Warren, 1898) Chiasmia normata (Walker, 1861) Chiasmia ostentosaria (Möschler, 1887) Chiasmia streniata (Guenée, 1858) Chiasmia trirecurvata (Saalmüller, 1891) Chiasmia umbrata (Warren, 1897) Chloroclystis consobrina (Warren, 1901) Chloroctenis similis Warren, 1899 Chlorodrepana rothi Warren, 1899 Chorodnodes rothi Warren, 1897 Chrysocraspeda hilaris (Warren, 1898) Chrysocraspeda rosina Warren, 1898 Chrysocraspeda rubripennis (Warren, 1898) Cleora cnephaea Prout, 1915 Cleora derogaria (Snellen, 1872) Cleora inelegans (Warren, 1905) Coenina aurivena Butler, 1898 Colocleora divisaria (Walker, 1860) Colocleora expansa (Warren, 1899) Colocleora smithi (Warren, 1904) Colocleora spuria (Prout, 1915) Comibaena esmeralda (Warren, 1898) Comibaena flavitaenia (Warren, 1898) Comibaena longipennis (Warren, 1904) Comostolopsis rubristicta (Warren, 1899) Ctenoberta dubia (Warren, 1899) Cyclophora dewitzi (Prout, 1920) Cyclophora hirtifemur (Prout, 1932) Cyclophora leonaria (Walker, 1861) Cyclophora misella (Prout, 1932) Cyclophora poeciloptera (Prout, 1920) Dithecodes ornithospila (Prout, 1911) Ectropis nigripunctata Warren, 1897 Ectropis subapicata (Warren, 1904) Eois grataria (Walker, 1861) Epigynopteryx nigricola (Warren, 1897) Epigynopteryx straminea (Warren, 1897) Eucrostes disparata Walker, 1861 Euproutia aggravaria (Guenée, 1858) Euproutia vernicoma (Prout, 1913)