HomeGuideID RequestRecentFrassForumsDonateHelp

Clickable Guide

Calendar

Upcoming Events

Registration is open for the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29

Previous events

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinks

Books

Data

Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Order Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Moth Guide

While mothguide.com has been under construction, it currently provides detailed descriptions, and images with key field marks of select Geometrids here

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 31 January, 2016 - 8:01pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...

By Van Nieukerken, et al.
Zootaxa 3148: 212-221, 2011

Title: Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

Authors: Erik J. van Nieukerken, Lauri Kaila, Ian J. Kitching, Niels P. Kristensen, David C. Lees, Joël Minet, Charles Mitter, Marko Mutanen, Jerome C. Regier, Thomas J. Simonsen, Niklas Wahlberg, Shen-Horn Yen, Reza Zahiri, David Adamski, Joaquin Baixeras, Daniel Bartsch, Bengt Å. Bengtsson, John W. Brown, Sibyl Rae Bucheli, Donald R. Davis, Jurate De Prins, Willy De Prins, Marc E. Epstein, Patricia Gentili-Poole, Cees Gielis, Peter Hättenschwiler, Axel Hausmann, Jeremy D. Holloway, Axel Kallies, Ole Karsholt, Akito Y. Kawahara, Sjaak (J.C.) Koster, Mikhail V. Kozlov, J. Donald Lafontaine, Gerardo Lamas, Jean-François Landry, Sangmi Lee, Matthias Nuss, Kyu-Tek Park, Carla Penz, Jadranka Rota, Alexander Schintlmeister, B. Christian Schmidt, Jae-Cheon Sohn, M. Alma Solis, Gerhard M. Tarmann, Andrew D. Warren, Susan Weller, Roman V. Yakovlev, Vadim V. Zolotuhin, Andreas Zwick

details · login or register to post comments · read more

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 27 January, 2016 - 2:51pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

North American Micro-Lepidoptera

By Clemens, Brackenridge
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Volume 5: 139-47, 1865

Includes descriptions of Tortricid and Tineid species

View online here

details · 1 comment

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 21 January, 2016 - 7:12pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Microlepidoptera from the Black Mountain region of North Carolina, with descriptions of new species.

By Kearfott, W.D.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 23(80): 153-168, 1907

Read online here

Plate 8, fig. 1-18, are found at the end of the previous article here.

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 5 December, 2015 - 9:09am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Microlepidoptera: Notes and new species

By Annette F. Braun
Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 49(2), 1923

Read online here

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 11 October, 2015 - 7:30am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Micro-Lepidoptera

By V. T. Chambers
The Canadian Entomologist 3(3-12):54–58, 84–88, 108–112, 127–130, 146–149, 161–166, 182–185, 205–209, 221–224., 1871

Read online here.

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 6 October, 2015 - 2:37pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species

By Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris
ZooKeys 421: 139-179, 2014

Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris 2014. A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini). ZooKeys 421: 139-179 (multiple formats)

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 22 May, 2015 - 10:38am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths (Please do not post or move any new images to this page - see Info)

Fifty new species; notes on the genus Alpheias

By Barnes W., McDunnough J. H.
Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. 1(5): 1-44, 1912

View online here

details · login or register to post comments

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 27 February, 2015 - 4:48am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Printer Friendly Version