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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.


  04: Pre-Tortricid Micros -- 1076-1680
  1133 -- Symmoca Moth -- Symmoca signatella
© Donald Hobern - UKmoths 872
 
  1134 -- Four-spotted Yellowneck Moth -- Oegoconia quadripuncta
© Dave Beadle
 
© Robert Patterson © John Davis
 
© Nolie Schneider
  1139 -- Five-spotted Glyphidocera Moth -- Glyphidocera lactiflosella
7mm - © Machele White
 
© Machele White © Machele White © Randy Newman
  1144 -- Gerdana Moth -- Gerdana caritella
© Larry Line
 
© Robert Patterson
  1154 -- Blastobasis Moth -- Blastobasis [=Valentina] yuccaecolella [T]
© Beatriz Moisset
 
  1162 -- Acorn Moth -- Valentina glandulella
© Forest Barnas © Machele White
 
© Randy Newman
 
© Lisa Ames

© Robert Patterson
 
  1168 -- Calocima Moth -- Calocima argyrosplendella
© Robert Patterson
 
  1253.99 -- Other Blastobasinae Species -- Blastobasinae sp.

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

© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
  1257 -- American Pistol Casebearer -- Coleophora atromarginata
© John Himmelman
 
© Robert Patterson © Arlene Ripley
 
  1260 -- Speckled Case-bearer Moth -- Coleophora elaeagnisella
© Dennis Profant
 
© Dennis Profant
  1308 -- Case-bearer Moth -- Coleophora serratella
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 493
 
  1311 -- Larch Case-bearer Moth -- Coleophora laricella
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 526
 
  1350 -- Case-bearer Moth -- Coleophora quadruplex
© John Lee
 
  1365 -- Streaked Coleophora Moth -- Coleophora cratipennella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
  1387 -- Metallic Coleophora Moth -- Coleophora mayrella [=spissicornis]
© Robert Patterson
 
© Doug Macaulay
 
6mm - © Tom Murray © Nolie Schneider
  1388 -- Large Clover Case-bearer Moth -- Coleophora trifolii
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 516
 
© Dave Pelletier
 
  1398 -- Octagonal Casemaker Moth -- Coleophora octagonella [tentative]
© Troy Bartlett
 
© Robert Patterson © Kim Fleming
  1398.99 -- Other Coleophora Species -- Coleophora sp.

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

© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
5mm - © Machele White
 
© Tom Bentley
 
nr. 1387 - © Nolie Schneider © Nolie Schneider
  1399 -- Moth -- Batrachedra praeangusta
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 878

  1413 -- Large Batrachedra Moth -- Batrachedra enormis
Western Distribution
© Arlene Ripley
 
  1421 -- Exclamation Moth -- Homaledra heptathalama
© Sean McCann

© Robert Patterson
 
  1422 -- Palm Leaf Skeletonizer Moth -- Homaledra sabalella
© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
© Jeff Hollenbeck
 
  1429 -- Bottimer's Mompha Moth -- Mompha bottimeri
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
  1434 -- Circumscript Mompha Moth -- Mompha circumscriptella
© Randy Newman
 
© Machele White © Machele White © Charles S. Lewallen
  1438 -- Fireweed Mompha Moth -- Mompha conturbatella
© Ben Smart - UKmoths 885
 
  1443 -- Red-streaked Mompha Moth -- Mompha eloisella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White © Nolie Schneider
  1458.99 -- Unidentified Mompha Moths -- Mompha spp.
© Machele White
 
  1463 -- Lime-tree Chrysoclysta Moth -- Chrysoclysta linneella
© Lynette Schimming © Malcolm Bridge - UKmoths 903
 
© Jay Cossey
  1467 -- Euclemensia Moth -- Euclemensia bassettella
© Machele White
 
© Tom Murray   <Larger Photo>
 
© Nolie Schneider
 
© Gretchen Waggy
 
  1472 -- Chambers' Cosmopterix Moth -- Cosmopterix pulchrimella
© Pedro Pires - UKmoths 896a
 
  1476 -- Cosmopterix Moth -- Cosmopterix montisella [tentative]
© Rob Curtis
 
  1493 -- Clemens' Cosmopterix Moth -- Cosmopterix clemensella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © Machele White © Machele White
  1496 -- Fernald's Cosmopterix Moth -- Cosmopterix fernaldella
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
  1498.99 -- Unidentified Cosmopterix Moths -- Cosmopterix sp.

© Tom Murray
 
© Tom Murray © Patrick Coin
 
  1509 -- Wyatt's Stagmatophora Moth -- Stagmatophora wyattella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
  1515 -- Shy Cosmet Moth -- Limnaecia phragmitella
© John Lee
 
© Robert Patterson © Ian Kimber - UKmoths 898 © D. Lynn Scott
  1524 -- Sweetclover Root Borer Moth -- Triclonella pergandeella
© Renn Tumlinson
 
  1615 -- Walshia Moth -- Walshia miscecolorella
© Steve Scott
 
  1631-32 -- Perimede Species Group -- Perimede ricina-falcata

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

© Robert Patterson
 
© Arlene Ripley
 
  1663.1 -- Chenopodium Scythris Moth -- Scythris limbella
© Nolie Schneider
 
© David Kleiman
 




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