- Source: List of Lepidoptera of Cape Verde
Lepidoptera of Cape Verde represent about 280 known species. A total of 252 moth species have been recorded. Twenty-eight species of butterflies are known from Cape Verde, one of which is endemic. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
Butterflies
= Hesperiidae
=Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)
Coeliades forestan (Stoll, 1782)
= Lycaenidae
== Nymphalidae
== Papilionidae
=Papilio demodocus Esper, 1798
= Pieridae
== Satyrinae
=Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Moths
= Bedelliidae
=Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)
= Coleophoridae
=Coleophora creola Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2015
= Cosmopterigidae
=Anatrachyntis simplex (Walsingham, 1891)
Cosmopterix attenuatella (Walker, 1864)
= Crambidae
== Depressariidae
=Ethmia quadrinotella (Mann, 1861)
= Erebidae
== Gelechiidae
== Geometridae
== Gracillariidae
=Caloptilia soyella (van Deventer, 1904)
Phodoryctis caerulea (Meyrick, 1912)
= Noctuidae
== Nolidae
=Earias biplaga Walker, 1866
Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862)
Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833)
Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)
= Plutellidae
=Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
= Praydidae
=Prays citri (Millière, 1873)
= Pterophoridae
== Pyralidae
== Scythrididae
=Eretmocera basistrigata Walsingham, 1889
Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852
Scythris fissurella Bengtsson, 1997
= Sphingidae
== Tineidae
=Opogona sacchari (Bojer, 1856)