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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.


  18.7: Tortricoidea -- 3426-3564                           Refereed by Richard L. Brown
  3430 -- Grapholita angeleseana
© Bill Johnson
 
  3433.99 -- Delineated Grapholita Moth -- Grapholita delineata
[T] - © Tom Murray
 
  3437 -- Grapholita lunatana
© John Davis
 
  3438 -- Solidago Root Moth -- Grapholita eclipsana


Tam kicked up these moths in New Jersey while walking along the edge of a weedy field. The tandem pair flew into view, landing right in front of him. Identified by Hugh McGuinness and confirmed by John Brown at the USNM.
 

© Tam Stuart
 
© Tam Stuart
 
© Tam Stuart
 
© Tam Stuart
 
  3439 -- One-lined Grapholita Moth -- Grapholita interstinctana
© Tom Murray
 
© Rob Curtis
 
  3443 -- Three-lined Grapholita Moth -- Grapholita tristrigana
© Tom Murray
 
© Tom Murray
 
  3443.99 -- Other Grapholita Species -- Grapholita sp.

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

© Tom Murray
 
© Tom Murray
  3461 -- White-marked Cydia Moth -- Cydia albimaculana
© D. Lynn Scott
 
  3467 -- Pea Moth -- Cydia nigricana
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 1257
 
  3471 -- Caryana Moth -- Cydia caryana
© Robert Patterson
 
  3472 -- Fletcher's Cydia Moth -- Cydia fletcherana [tentative]
© Nolie Schneider
 
  3486 -- Toreuta Moth -- Cydia toreuta
© Robert Patterson
 
  3492 -- Codling Moth -- Cydia pomonella
© Robert Patterson
 
© Nolie Schneider © John Davis
 
© Shane Farrell - UKmoths 1261
  3494 -- Filbertworm Moth -- Cydia latiferreana
© Dave Beadle
 
© Robert Patterson © Jim McClarin © John Davis
 
  3495 -- Dotted Ecdytolopha Moth -- Ecdytolopha punctidiscana
© Dave Beadle
 
© Hugh McGuinness © Robert Patterson © Machele White
  3497 -- Locust Twig Borer Moth -- Ecdytolopha insiticiana
© Hugh McGuinness
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson © Larry Line
  3500 -- Inimical Borer Moth -- Pseudogalleria inimicella
© Robert Patterson

© Robert Patterson © Steve Walter
 
© Machele White
 
  3501 -- Hairnet Acleris Moth -- Acleris forskaleana
© Robin McLeod
 
© David Painter - UKmoths 1036 © Hugh McGuinness
  3502 -- Red-edged Acleris Moth -- Acleris [=Croesia] albicomana
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
  3503 -- Oak Leafshredder Moth -- Acleris semipurpurana
© Phil Penketh
 
© Hugh McGuinness © Hugh McGuinness © Hugh McGuinness
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
© Machele White
 
  3504 -- Acleris Moth -- Acleris curvalana
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robin McLeod
 
© Hugh McGuinness © Hugh McGuinness
  3505 -- White-marked Acleris Moth -- Acleris holmiana
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
© John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
  3507 -- Strawberry Tortrix Moth -- Acleris holmiana
© Ian Kimber - UKmoths 1039
 
  3510 -- Snowy-shouldered Acleris Moth -- Acleris nivisellana
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © John Davis
 
© Joanne Shuman
  3511 -- Rhomboid Tortrix Moth -- Acleris rhombana
© Roland Gill - UKmoths 1042
 
© David Painter - UKmoths 1042
  3514 -- Acleris Moth -- Acleris cervinana
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
© Larry Line © Robert Patterson © Tom Murray
 
  3517 -- Acleris Moth -- Acleris subnivana
© Steve Walter
 
© Nolie Schneider
 
  3520a -- Acleris Moth -- Acleris obtusana fuscuna
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
  3523 -- Acleris Moth -- Acleris cornana
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
  3526 -- Speckled Acleris Moth -- Acleris negundana
© Robert Patterson
 
  3527 -- Schaller's Acleris Moth -- Acleris schallereana
© David Reed
 
© Nolie Schneider © Dave Beadle © Robert Patterson
  3530 -- Garden Rose Tortrix Moth -- Acleris variegana
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
  3531 -- Tortrix Moth -- Acleris hastiana
© Andy Mackay - UKmoths 1053
 
© Andy Mackay - UKmoths 1053
 

See 3542 - Acleris flavivattana below before considering this species in North America. Both species are highly variable and the resemblance of some of the forms is considerable.
 

  3532 -- Acleris fragariana
© Tom Trocine
 
  3533 -- Acleris celiana
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
© David Bree
 
  3536 -- Robinson's Acleris Moth -- Acleris robinsoniana
© Hugh McGuinness
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
  3537 -- Brittania Moth -- Acleris britannia
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
  3540a -- Leaffolder Moth -- Acleris logiana placidana
© Bob Patterson
 
© Bob Patterson © Matthias Biere - UKmoths 1051 © Tom Murray
  3542 -- Multiform Leafroller Moth -- Acleris flavivittana
© Larry Line
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
© David Silsbee
 
© Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
  3543 -- Stained-back Leafroller Moth -- Acleris maculidorsana
© John Himmelman
 
© Hugh McGuinness © Hugh McGuinness © Robert Patterson
 
  3548 -- Eastern Black-headed Budworm Moth -- Acleris variana
© Dave Beadle
 
© Dave Beadle
  3552 -- Gray Rough-wing Moth -- Acleris scabrana
© Eric LaGasa & WSDA
 
  3559 -- Hook-winged Tortrix Moth -- Acleris emargana
© Rob Petley-Jones - UKmoths 1062
 
© David Painter - UKmoths 1062 © Keith Naylor - UKmoths 1062

Without photos of North American specimens it is impossible to know which, if any, of the UK examples are found here. The nominate subspecies is considered extralimital, and the N.A. subspecies is A. e. blackmorei.

  3563.99 -- Other Acleris Species -- Acleris sp.

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

© Steve Walter
 
© Steve Walter © Robert Patterson © Robert Patterson
© John Davis
 




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