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Archived Photos of Living Moths

Please see the page on submitting photos (link above at right). Photos that are identified here are retained for later use on pages like this one and on individual species pages. For photos to be usable here they must be capable of cropping and reduction to fit a square 225 x 225 pixels in size. A different size (300 x 225) will be used for some species that normally pose with the wings fully spread.

Photos are preferred of moths oriented head upward rather than at an angle. Normally, four photos, each by a different photographer, will be the limit per species. Exceptions might be made for species where there are many morphs, forms and aberrations. Better photos will replace those not as capable of helping to identify the species. There is no guarantee that a photo, once in the archive, will be retained permanently.


  01: Pre-Tortricid Micros -- 0001-0434
  0001 -- Goldcap Moss-eater Moth -- Epimartyria auricrinella
© Jean-François Landry
 
© Jean-François Landry
 
  0003 -- Chinquapin Leaf-miner Moth -- Dyseriocrania griseocapitella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © Hugh McGuinness © Larry Line
  0005 -- Purplish Birch-miner Moth -- Eriocrania semipurpurella
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
  0018 -- Silver-spotted Ghost Moth -- Sthenopis argenteomaculatus
© John Himmelman
 
© Stuart Schwartz
 
  0019 -- Ghost Moth -- Sthenopis purpurascens
© Robin McLeod
 
  0020 -- Four-spotted Ghost Moth -- Sthenopis quadriguttatus
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
© Jim Farrell
 
© Jim Farrell
 
  0021 -- Willow Ghost Moth -- Sthenopis thule
© Bev Wigney
 
  0022 -- Gold-spotted Ghost Moth -- Sthenopis auratus
© Jo McGavin
 
  0028 W -- Matthew's Ghost Moth -- Gazoryctra mathewi
© Dick Wilson
 
© John Davis [T]
 
  0031 W -- Ghost Moth -- Korscheltellus gracilis
© John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
  0036 -- Phymatopus Ghost Moth -- Phymatopus hectoides [T]
© John Davis
 
  0036.99 -- Lupulina Ghost Moth -- Korscheltellus lupulina
© Robin McLeod
 
© Robin McLeod
 
© Robin McLeod
 
© Robin McLeod
 
  0058.99 -- Ectodoemia sp.
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0122 -- Gooseberry Barkminer Moth -- Opostega quadristrigella
© Robert Patterson
 
  0125.99 -- Other Pseudopostega Species -- Pseudopostega sp.

Some moths cannot be identified in photographs below the level of genus.

© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
  0173.99 -- Other Tisheria Species -- Tisheria spp.

Some moths cannot be identified in photographs below the level of genus.

4.5mm - © Robert Patterson
 
  0177 -- Currant Shoot Borer Moth -- Lampronia capitella
© Andy Musgrove - UKmoths 133
 
  0181 -- Maple Leafcutter Moth -- Paraclemensia acerifoliella
© Paul McNelis
 
  0183 -- Phylloporia bistrigella
© Jon Baker - UKmoths 128
 
  0189 -- Greya piperella
© John Davis
 
  0200.1 -- Bugus Yucca Moth -- Prodoxus decipiens


See note by Dr. Olle Pellmyr at BugGuide.Net regarding this yucca feeder in eastern North America.

© Jim McClarin
 
© Jim McClarin © Randy Newman
 
© Steve Scott
 
© Jim McClarin
 
  0221 -- Adela Moth -- Adela septentrionella
© John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
  0224 -- Adela flammeusella
© John Davis
 
  0228 -- Ridings' Fairy Moth -- Adela ridingsella
© Tom Murray
 
© Tom Murray
  0279 -- Clothes Moth -- Diachorsia velatella
© John Lee
 
  0295.99 -- Homosetia sp.
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0299 -- Old Gold Isocorypha Moth -- Isocorypha mediostriatella
© Steve Nanz
 
© Richard Leung
  0300 -- Yellow Wave Moth -- Hybroma servulella
© Lisa Ames
 
© Tom Murray
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Larry Line
 
  0304 -- Ereunetis Moth -- Ereunetis minuscula [tentative]
3.5mm - © Machele White
 
3.5mm - © Machele White
 
3.5mm - © Machele White
 
4mm - © Jeff Hollenbeck
 
  0305 -- Two-spotted Mea Moth -- Mea bipunctella
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0308 -- Scardia Moth -- Scardia approximatella
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
  0317 -- Speckled Xylesthia Moth -- Xylesthia pruniramiella
© Dean Edwards
 
© Dave Beadle
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Machele White
 
  0319 -- Kearfottia albifasciella
© Arlene Ripley
 
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0333 -- Amydria dyarella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
  0334 -- Amydria effrentella
© D. Lynn Scott
 
  0340 -- Mohawk Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus arcanellus
© Larry Line
 
© Robert Patterson
 
  0347 -- Cresson's Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus cressoni
© Gretchen Waggy
 
  0367.1 -- Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus mycetophagus
© Scott Nelson
 
© Scott Nelson
 
  0368 -- Panama Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus panamae
© Robert Patterson
 
  0372 -- Eastern Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus plumifrontella
© Robert Patterson
 

Acrolophus species identified here should be taken with a large dose of skepticism. Numerous photos of Tineiids will be shown on a stock page until something can be done to work out the IDs.
 

© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Andy Wraithmell
 
  0373 -- Clemens' Grass Tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus popeanella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Steve Scott
 
© Larry Line
 
© David Silsbee
 
  0374 -- Eastern Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus propinquis
© Robert Patterson
 
  0383 -- Grass-tubeworm Moth -- Acrolophus texanella [tentative]
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
  0386.98 -- Acrolophus Moth -- Acrolophus mycetophagus
© Alan Chin-Lee
 
© Bill DuPree
 
  0386.99 -- Other Acrolophus Species -- Acrolophus sp.

Some moths cannot be identified in photographs below the level of genus.

7mm - © Machele White
 
7mm - © Machele White © Gretchen Waggy
  0390 -- Household Casebearer Moth -- Phereoeca uterella
© Dave Porter
 
© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
  0392 -- Tinea Moth -- Tinea apicimaculella
© Machele White
 
© Machele White © Robert Patterson
 
  0400 -- Mandarin Tinea Moth -- Tinea mandarinella [tentative]
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0405 -- Case-bearing Clothes Moth - Tinea pellionella
© Claude Pilon
 
© Joyce Gross
 
© Claude Pilon
 
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 240
 
© Machele White
 
exuvium - © Claude Pilon
 
© Claude Pilon
 
© Claude Pilon
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Charles Baker - UKmoths 240
 
  0406 -- Large Pale Clothes Moth - Tinea pallescentella
© Ben Smart - UKmoths 245
 
  0412 -- Tineid Moth -- Niditinea orleansella
© Robert Patterson
 
  0413 -- Tineid Moth -- Trichophaga tapetzella
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0416 -- Monopis Moth -- Monopis dorsistrigella
© Carroll Rudy
 
© Carroll Rudy
 
© John Lee
 
© Arlene Ripley
 
  0417 -- Monopis Moth -- Monopis marginistrigella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Stephen Luk
 
  0418 -- White-headed Monopis Moth -- Monopis monachella
© Rob Petley-Jones - UKmoths 232
 
  0418.99 -- Yellow-headed Monopis Moth -- Monopis pavlovskii
© Robert Patterson
 
© Larry Line
 
© David Silsbee
 
© Machele White
 
  0421 -- Monopis Moth - Monopis spilotella
© Nolie Schneider
 
  0426 -- Common Clothes Moth - Tineola bisselliella
© Ben Smart - UKmoths 236
 
  0434.99 -- Unidentified Tineid Moths -- Tineidae sp.
© Arlene Ripley
 
© Graham Montgomery
 
© John Davis
 




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