NEOTROPICAL Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forest
moths
The beautiful and diverse moths of the tropical American jungle...
Superfamily Pyraloidea
Family Crambidae
(Manu Paradise Lodge, Peru)Diaphania elegans
Superfamily Bombycoidea
Family Saturniidae
Wayqecha Lodge, Manu, PeruMaybe ? Oxytenis modestia, 'Dead Leaf Moth'. Found in rainforest in Central and northern South America.
Superfamily Geometridae
Family Geometridae
(Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador)Many of the moths in this family are called 'Emerald Moths', because they are often green in colour.
(Manu Paradise Lodge, Peru)Pantherodes (?pardalaria) 'Leopard Moth'.
Eois paraviolascens.
Family Uranidae: 'Swallowtail Moths'
Subfamily Epipleminae: 'Scoopwing Moths'
(Wildsumaco Lodge, Ecuador)Psamathia sp. Vertical bars across wings.
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Arctiinae
'Tiger Moths' are often yellow and black in colour.
(Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador)Cosmosoma includes over 70 species of moths.
(Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador)Mesothen sp. includes over 30 species of moths
(Manu Paradise Lodge, Peru)Chlorhoda viridis.
To identify...
(Wildsumaco Lodge, Ecuador)
(Wildsumaco Lodge, Ecuador)
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