<p align="center">Fauna of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of Sierra Leone (Western Africa)

Abstract

The faunal review of Pterophoridae species is given for the fauna of Sierra Leone for the first time the type localities and world distribution (with new data) are specified. The information on the collected materials is given. Eleven species, previously unknown for this territory – Ochyrotica africana, Platyptilia farfarella, Bipunctiphorus dimorpha, Stenoptilodes taprobanes, Sphenarches erythrodactylus, Exelastis pumilo, E. tenax, E. vuattouxi, Hellinsia madecasseus, Pterophorus albidus and P. lampra – are added to the two known Pterophoridae species of Sierra Leone (Megalorhipida leucodactylus and Pterophorus candidalis).

The Pterophoridae fauna of Mali (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

“…Fauna of the family Pterophoridae of some West African countries have been published: Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Bigot, 1962(Bigot, , 1970Bigot & Boireau, 2002, 2006, Ghana (Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2015), Liberia (Ustjuzhanin et al 2017), Sierra Leone (Ustjuzhanin et al 2020), and Republic of Guinea (Ustjuzhanin et al, 2022a). While no species except for Exelastis pumilio (Zeller, 1873) was known from Mali (Gielis, 2003).…”