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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.


 33.3:  Geometridae -- 6683-6801                             Refereed by Bob Belmont
  6683 -- Hulst's Wave Moth -- Drepanulatrix hulstii
Western Distribution © Joyce Gross
 
  6686 -- Yellow-banded Looper Moth -- Drepanulatrix foeminaria
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
  6688 W -- Ceanothus Looper Moth -- Drepanulatrix carnearia
© Tom Murray
 
© John Davis
 
  6689 -- Drepanulatrix falcataria
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
  6690 -- Blotch-line Looper Moth -- Drepanulatrix secundaria
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
  6700aW -- Chloraspilates Moth -- Chloraspilates bicoloraria arizonaria
© Jillian Cowles
 
© Jillian Cowles
 
  6701.99 -- Unid. Chloraspilates Moths -- Chloraspilates spp.
© Jillian Cowles [T]
 
  6705 -- Thin-lined Erastria Moth -- Erastria cruentaria
spring - © Renn Tumlinson
 
summer - © Renn Tumlinson
 
© Lew Scharpf
 
  6711 -- Black-dotted Ruddy Moth -- Thysanopyga intractata
© Lewis Scharpf
 
© Robert Patterson © Larry Line
  6713 -- Solitary Episemasia Moth -- Episemasia solitaria
© Randy Newman
 
  6720 -- Common Lytrosis Moth -- Lytrosis unitaria
© Tom Murray
 
© Larry Line © Steve Nanz
© Cindy Mead
 
© Cindy Mead © Cindy Mead
  6723 -- Large Lytrosis Moth -- Lytrosis permagnaria
[f.] -- © Jonathan Burishkin
 
  6724 -- The Saw-wing Moth -- Euchlaena serrata
© Nolie Schneider
 
© Tim Dyson © Tom Murray
© Robin McLeod

  6726 -- Obtuse Euchlaena Moth -- E. obtusaria/muzaria
  Southern form -- obtusaria
© Patrick Coin
 
© Joanne Shuman © Patrick Coin

  Northern form -- muzaria -- [ formerly 6525 E. muzaria, now submerged in E. obtusaria ]
© Janice Stiefel
 
© Tom Murray © Cindy Mead
  6728 -- Effective Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena effecta
© Nolie Schneider
 
© D. Lynn Scott © Chris Adam
 
  6729 -- Johnson's Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena johnsonaria
© D. Lynn Scott
 
© D. Lynn Scott © Nolie Schneider
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson © John Davis
 
  6731 -- Scrub Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena madusaria
[m.] - © Darryl Searcy
 
  6732 -- Deep-stroking Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena deplanaria
[f.] - © Robert Patterson
 
[m.] - © Robert Patterson
 
[m.] - © Robert Patterson
 
  6733 -- Deep Yellow Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena amoenaria
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson [m.] - © Darryl Searcy [m.] - © Darryl Searcy
© Jim Kennedy
 
© Troy Bartlett © Mike Boone
  6734 -- Marginal Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena marginaria
© Jim Kennedy
 
© Jim Kennedy © D. Lynn Scott
  6737 -- Mottled Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena tigrinaria
© John Himmelman © John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
  6739 -- Least-marked Euchlaena Moth -- Euchlaena irraria
© David Silsbee
 
© Tom Murray © Janice Steifel
  6740-44 -- Crocus Geometer Species Group -- Xanthotype sp.


Rindge (1978) examined 1,886 specimens (m=1441, f=445) and made 261 genitalic dissections. "No one has found a reliable way to recognize the species as yet except by genitalia. The adults of all species in this genus are, for practical purposes, externally indistinguishable from one another, as they are are almost identical in color, maculation, and size."

Ranges of the several species will be described when a species page is created for this group.
 

© Tom Bentley
 
© Robert Patterson
© David Silsbee
 
© David Bree © Nolie Schneider
© D. Lynn Scott
 
© D. Lynn Scott © Robin McLeod
© David Silsbee
 
© Matthew Roth 5th instar - © Carroll Rudy
© Machelle White
 
  6745 -- Cymatophora Moth -- Cymatophora approximaria
© Machelle White
 
© Machelle White © Machelle White
© Randy Newman
 
© Randy Newman © Randy Newman
  6746 -- Walker's Stenaspilatodes Moth -- Stenaspilatodes antidiscaria
© Robert Patterson
 
  6752 -- Straight-lined Pero Moth -- Pero zalissaria
© Randy Newman
 
© Steve Scott
 
© Robert Patterson
  6753 -- Honest Pero Moth -- Pero honestaria
© Robin McLeod
 
© Nolie Schneider © Robert Patterson
  6754 -- Hubner's Pero Moth -- Pero ancetaria [hubneraria]
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robin McLeod © Carroll Rudy
 
  6755 -- Morrison's Pero Moth -- Pero morrisonaria
© Nolie Schneider
 
© Tom Murray © John Davis
 
  6757 -- Rindge's Pero Moth -- Pero mizon
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution © Joyce Gross
 
Western Distribution © Donald Gudehus
 
  6759 -- Modest Pero Moth -- Pero modesta
© Larry Line
 
  6760 W -- Pero Moth -- Pero behrensaria
[m.] - © John Davis
 
  6763 -- Oak Beauty Moth -- Phaeoura quernaria
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Robert Patterson
 
© Cindy Mead
 
© David Silsbee © Cindy Mead
© Chris French
 
© Robert Patterson © Machele White
 
  6781 -- Dyar's Looper Moth -- Gabriola dyari
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
Western Distribution
© John Davis
 
  6796 -- Pale Beauty Moth -- Campaea perlata
© Chris French
 
© David Silsbee © Robert Patterson
© Forest Barnas
 
5th instar - © Janice Stiefel © John Davis
 
  6797 -- Maple Spanworm Moth -- Ennomos magnaria
© Robert Patterson
 
© John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
© John Davis
 
© Larry Line © D. Lynn Scott
  6798 -- Elm Spanworm Moth -- Ennomos subsignaria
© D. Lynn Scott
 
© Robert Patterson © Nolie Schneider © Larry Line
  6799 -- Dusky Epirranthis Moth -- Epirranthis substriataria
© Gordon Harrison
 
© Anthony W. Thomas © John Davis
 
  6800 -- Sphacelodes Moth -- Sphacelodes vulneraria
[m.] - © Joshua Rose
 
[m.] - © Joshua Rose
 
[m.] - © Joshua Rose
 
[m.] - © Mark de Silva
 
[f.] - © Mark de Silva
 




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