| Pyrausta melanocera Hampson, 1913 |
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Hampson G. F. 1913b. Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae. page: 26 |
| Rabomia obscurior Hausmann & Tujuba, 2021 |
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| Racinoa ficicola (Ormerod, 1889) |
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Rothschild W. 1921b. On the Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. Buchanan in Northern Nigeria and the Southern Sahara in 1919–1920. Geometridae. page: 218 |
| Raclia cervina Walker, 1869 |
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Wojtusiak J. 1996c. The check-list of the Noctuidae Moths of the São Tomé and Principe Islands in the Gulf of Guinea, with notes on their geographical distribution. Part III. Catocalinae, Ophiderinae, Hypeninae, Hypenodinae. page: 690 |
| Radara subcupralis (Walker, 1866) |
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Wojtusiak J. 1996c. The check-list of the Noctuidae Moths of the São Tomé and Principe Islands in the Gulf of Guinea, with notes on their geographical distribution. Part III. Catocalinae, Ophiderinae, Hypeninae, Hypenodinae. page: 690 |
| Raphia buchanani Rothschild, 1921 |
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Rothschild W. 1921a. Captain Angus Buchanan's Aïr expedition. V. On the Lepidoptera collected by Captain A. Buchanan in northern Nigeria and the southern Sahara in 1919–1920. page: 168 |
| Remigiodes remigina (Mabille, 1884) |
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Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. page: 76 |
| Rhabdophera arefacta (Swinhoe, 1885) |
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| Rhabdophera hansali (Felder R. & Rogenhofer, 1875) |
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Boorman J. 1960a. Notes on the Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Nigeria. page: 115 |
| Rhenea mediata (Walker, 1865) |
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Kiriakoff S. G. 1981. New and known Notodontidae from East and South Africa (Lepidoptera, Notodontoidea). page: 15 |
| Rhesala moestalis (Walker, 1866) |
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Hampson G. F. 1901e. In: Ragonot E. L., Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. – In: Romanoff N. M., Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. page: 428 |
| Rhesala nigeriensis (Hampson, 1926) |
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Hampson G. F. 1926a. Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae of the subfamily Noctuinae (Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). page: 276 |
| Rhipidarctia conradti (Oberthür, 1911) |
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| Rhipidarctia flaviceps (Hampson, 1898) |
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Kiriakoff S. G. 1957b. Notes sur les Thyretidae (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). page: 125 |
| Rhipidarctia invaria (Walker, 1856) |
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Rothschild W. 1913c. Descriptions of two new Colias and some African Syntomidae. page: 187 (as aurantiifusca) |
| Rhipidarctia postrosea (Rothschild, 1913) |
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Rothschild W. 1913c. Descriptions of two new Colias and some African Syntomidae. page: 187 |
| Rhipidarctia silacea (Plötz, 1880) |
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Plötz C. 1880a. Verzeichniss der vom Prof. Dr. R. Buchholz in West-Afrika gesammelten Schmetterlinge. page: 86 |
| Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767) |
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Rothschild W. 1921b. On the Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. Buchanan in Northern Nigeria and the Southern Sahara in 1919–1920. Geometridae. page: 216 |
| Rhodoneura serraticornis (Warren, 1899) |
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Bethune-Baker G. T. 1911b. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from tropical Africa. page: 541 (as cymoeasticha) |
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Whalley P. E. S. 1971. The Thyrididae (Lepidoptera) of Africa and its islands. A taxonomic and zoogeographic study. page: 87 |
| Rhodophthitus myriostictus Prout L. B., 1915 |
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Prout L. B. 1915a. New genera and species of African Geometridae. page: 369 |
| Rhynchina obliqualis (Kollar, 1844) |
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Fletcher T. B. 1910a. Lepidoptera exclusive of the Tortricidae and Tineidae, with some remarks on their distribution and means of dispersal among the islands of the Indian Ocean. (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). page: 281 (as masurialis) |
| Rhypopteryx flaveola (Hering, 1926) |
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Hering E. M. 1926–1927. Pterothysanidae, Lymantriidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Seitz, A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. Die Afrikanischen Spinner und Schwärmer. page: 191 |
| Rhypopteryx perfragilis Collenette, 1957 |
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Collenette C. L. 1957. Some new species of Lymantriidae from Africa. page: 160 |