Snout Moths

Longitude (deg): -0.9. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 60' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 30' N. Vice county name: Berks. Vice county no.: 22. Country: England. Stage: Imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: at MV light. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Background: dark background. Photographic equipment used: Nikon D100 dSLR with Tamron SP T90 AF Macro 1:1 lens.

Superfamily PyraloideaFamily Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)Subfamily PyraustinaeTribe SpilomeliniGenus DiaphaniaSpecies nitidalis (Pickleworm Moth

Tiny 15mm moth visiting a Richardia grandiflora blossom in the lawn of the neighborhood community center park. This is a very furtive little moth, usually glimpsed as it disappears behind a leaf or grass blade. It's also called the orange spotted flower moth.

Matilella fusca (Haworth, 1811), to MV light, Hellerup, Denmark, 24 July 2005

Siianjiyan, Jingmei, Taipei City, TaiwaWingspan 18mm Pyralis pictalis (Curtis, 1834) Subfamily Pyralinae Family Pyralidae

Matilella fusca (Haworth, 1811), to MV light, Hellerup, Denmark, 24 July 2005

Zophodia grossulariella, to MV light, Hellerup, Denmark, 5 May 2003

Dioryctria sylvestrella, Gastes, Landes, SW France, 7/8 July 2003

1251 DSCF1655.JPGChanged after DNA results from numerous other Dioryctria from this site.Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) Phycitinae Phycitini DioryctriaBP: 5844 - Dioyctria schuetzeella grp. (Dioryctria schuetzeella)Locality: Coastal SW Washington State at the edge of Willapa Baygeo:lat=46.624389 geo:lon=-123.949728Note: Amanda D. Roe, aroe@ualberta.ca and Felix A. H. Sperling, felix.sperling@ualberta.ca. University of Alberta, Biological Sciences, CW 315 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada:"The Nearctic members of the Dioryctria schuetzeella group (D. reniculelloides and D. pseudotsugella) (Pyralidae: Phycitinae) are notoriously difficult to identify, due to intermediate morphological forms and a broadly sympatric distribution. Given these difficulties, we tested the traditional delimitation of D. reniculelloides and D. pseudotsugella using a combination of molecular, morphological, and ecological characters. Restricted gene flow was found between an eastern D. reniculelloides clade and a western D. pseudotsugella clade, which were also supported by morphological variation and larval host plant association. Diagnosis of these two species remains difficult due to overlapping variation and future examinations are needed to elucidate which barriers to gene flow are maintaining this sympatric distribution."BOLD >6

Dioryctria sylvestrella, Gastes, Landes, SW France, 29/30 June 2003

Dioryctria sylvestrella, Gastes, Landes, SW France, 7/8 July 2003

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Larva. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Larvae in cocoons behind boxes in garage near failed Bombus pratorum nest. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Larva. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Larvae in cocoons behind boxes in garage near failed Bombus pratorum nest. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Larva. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Larvae in cocoons behind boxes in garage near failed Bombus pratorum nest. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -0.1. Latitude (deg): 50.8. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 50' N. Vice county name: East Sussex. Vice county no.: 14. Country: England. Stage: Larva. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Larvae in cocoons behind boxes in garage near failed Bombus pratorum nest. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

lepidoptera

Zophodia grossulariella, Hellerup, Denmark, 8 May 2003

Dioryctria sylvestrella, Gastes, Landes, SW France, 29/30 June 2003

female, 27 mm -- at the top end of size even for the larger of the 2 species. At beer bait.

Grape Leaffolder (Desmia funeralis)