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Sierra Leone

Name:Sierra Leone
Code:SL
Region:Afrotropical Region
Species Province Publication
Apisa canescens Walker, 1855 Hampson G. F. 1898a. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum. Syntomidae. page: 143
Apisa cinereocostata Holland, 1893 Kiriakoff S. G. 1957b. Notes sur les Thyretidae (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). page: 122 (as bourgognei)
Apisa subcanescens Rothschild, 1910 page: R. Goff
Apolobesia nsukka Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2012 Razowski J. & Karisch T. 2017. New records of Tortricidae from Sierra Leone (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). page: 75
Araeopteron griseata Hampson, 1907 Strand E. 1912o. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessmann nach süd-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Lepidoptera III. (Arctiidae etc.). page: 63
Archichlora devoluta (Walker, 1861) Prout L. B. 1929–1938. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter (Geometridae). Die Afrikanischen Spanner. Geometridae. – In: Seitz A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. page: 13
Archichlora marcescens Warren, 1904 Prout L. B. 1929–1938. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter (Geometridae). Die Afrikanischen Spanner. Geometridae. – In: Seitz A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. page: 13
Archichlora marginata (Warren, 1902) Prout L. B. 1929–1938. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter (Geometridae). Die Afrikanischen Spanner. Geometridae. – In: Seitz A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. page: 13
Archichlora pulveriplaga (Warren, 1898) page: R. Revell
Archichlora viridimacula Warren, 1898 Swinhoe C. 1904b. On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. page: 551
Architesma ampullaria Volynkin, 2025 Volynkin A. V. 2025. Contribution to the knowledge of the Afrotropical Archithosia Birket-Smith generic complex with the description of a new genus, nineteen new species and a new subspecies, and introduction of new combinations (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). page: 24
Architesma angulifascia (Strand, 1913) page: R. Goff
Archithosia costimacula (Mabille, 1878) page: R. Goff
Arciera grisea (Holland, 1893) Schintlmeister A. & Witt T. J. 2015. The Notodontidae of South Africa including Swaziland and Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). page: 28
Arcyophora polla (Schaus & Clements, 1893) Schaus W. & Clements W. G. 1893. On a collection of Sierra Leone Lepidoptera. page: 35
Argyrogramma signata (Fabricius, 1792) Walker F. 1865c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII.– Supplement Part 3. page: 837 (as diminuta)
Aroa danva Schaus & Clements, 1893 Schaus W. & Clements W. G. 1893. On a collection of Sierra Leone Lepidoptera. page: 26
Aroa leonensis Hampson, 1910 Hampson G. F. 1910a. Descriptions of new African moths. page: 445
Arsacia rectalis (Walker, 1863) page: BMNH
Ascotis reciprocaria (Walker, 1860) page: R. Goff
Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773) Drury D. 1773. Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of Exotic Insects, according to their different genera, very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from (etc.) page: 9
Aspidifrontia hemileuca (Hampson, 1909) Hampson G. F. 1909a. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) VIII. Subfam. Acronyctinae (continued). page: 189
Assegaj clenchi Yakovlev, 2006 Yakovlev R. V., László G. M. & Witt T. J. 2019b. First summary of Cossidae of Sierra Leone (West Africa) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). page: 559
Atacira mima (Prout A. E., 1925) page: R. Goff
Atemnora westermannii (Boisduval, 1875) Schaus W. & Clements W. G. 1893. On a collection of Sierra Leone Lepidoptera. page: 17 (as falkensteinii)