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A Selection of Texas' Day-flying Moths

Tiger - Inch - Owlet - Silk - Uraniid


Tiger Moth Family Arctiidae

Arctiinae

Decorated Beauty - Anaxita decorata Walker, 1855 (Not in Texas)

Princely Tiger Moth - Chrysocale principalis (Walker, 1864) (Not in Texas)

Faithful Beauty - Composia fidelissima Herrich-Schäffer, 1866 (Not in Texas)

Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth - Cosmosoma myrodora Dyar, 1907

Veined Ctenucha - Ctenucha venosa Walker, 1854

Northern Giant Flag Moth - Dysschema howardi  (Hy. Edwards, [1887])

 

Mariamne's Giant Flag Moth - Dysschema mariamne (Geyer, [1835]) (Not in Texas)

Milkweed Tiger Moth - Euchaetes egle (Drury, 1773)

Vulcan Tiger Moth - Eurata vulcanus (Walker, 1854) (Not in Texas)

Gnophaela aequinoctialis (Walker, 1854)

Crimson-bodied Lichen-Moth - Lerina incarnata Walker, 1854 (Not in Texas)

Southern Cyan Tiger Moth - Macrocneme chrysitis (Guérin-Méneville 1844)

Saucy Beauty - Phaloesia saucia Walker, 1854

Lydia Tiger Moth - Phoenicoprocta lydia (Druce, 1889)

Pseudophaloe veranioides Hering, 1925 (Not in Texas)

Mexican Blue-tailed Fly - Pseudosphex leovazquezae (Perez & Sanchez, 1986)

Polka-dot Wasp Moth - Syntomeida epilais (Walker, 1854)

Black-banded Wasp Moth - Syntomeida melanthus (Cramer, 1780)

Lithosiinae

Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth - Lycomorpha pholus  (Drury, 1773)


Inchworm Family Geometridae

Orange Satyr-Moth - Heterusia atalantata (Guenée, [1858])

White-tipped Black - Melanchroia chephise (Cramer, 1782)


Owlet Moth Family Noctuidae

Two-spotted Forester - Alypiodes bimaculata (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853])

Eight-spotted Forester - Alypia octomaculata (Fabricius, 1775)

Brilliant Forester Moth - Eupseudomorpha brillians (Neumoegen, 1880)

Grapevine Epimenis - Psychomorpha epimenis (Drury, 1782)


Silk Moth Family Saturniidae

Texas Buckmoth - Hemileuca peigleri Lemaire, 1979

Chinati Sheepmoth - Hemileuca chinatiensis (Tinkham, 1943)


Urania Moth Family Uraniidae

Urania Swallowtail - Urania fulgens Walker, 1854


08 Oct 2008  © Mike Quinn / entomike@gmail.com / Texas Entomology / Texas Lep Information