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The pictures that are included when you link to the families will include the Hodges reference number. The Hodges number is also listed below with the families. The Hodges numbers come from a report published in 1984 by Ronald Hodges where he assigned a number to all known moth species in North America north of Mexico. Due to the reorganizing of the Noctuidae, some of the numbers are out of sequence. I am also including for the Noctuoidea, the reference number from Lafontaine and Schmidt's Annotated checklist of the Noctuoidea of North America north of Mexico, published in March 2010. This is a 93xxxx and it shows the order in the taxonomy of the Noctuoidea. The size of the moth will be next to the name under the photo. I am redoing the pictures and not including any data on the photo. Some species will have multiple pictures because I have included both male and female and also photos to show different patterns or coloration. I have also included photos from my collection and Frank's for clarification. I have also included PDFs of the pictures in case someone wants to download and print them. I have included some species that I have collected from Kentucky, Minnesota and Michigan.

If you have pictures of moths and beetles that you would like to have identified, send a jpg attached to an email. Try to size the pictures to a 4 x 6 at 200 dpi. It may take sometime to ID the pictures, but I will send a reply to let you know that I have received the picture. Please include state, county, GPS coordinates if possible, otherwise something to define location.

I have included the collection data for specimens that Frank Olsen, Keith Summerville and myself have in our collections. Since 2007 I have been adding other collector and photographer information as I get it. Also is a list of the species that we have found in Iowa.

I am adding links on the family pages that will take you to range maps.These links will show what counties in Iowa that the species has been collected or photographed. I am only including range maps for Iowa. If a species does not have a range map then it was collected in a state other than Iowa.

Moth Families

List of families with links to the family pages

Moth List of Iowa in Hodges number order

To go to the species page, click on the link in the Hodges number field.

Table 1 - 3 - 3638

Table 2 - 3643 - 6348

Table 3 - 6353 - 8131

Table 4 - 8133 - 9254

Table 5 - 9257 - 11182

Moth List of Iowa by Superfamily

To go to the family/subfamily page, click on the link in the family, subfamily or tribe field. To go to the species page, click on the link in the Hodges number field.

Table 1- Eriocranioidea

Table 2 - Nepticuloidea

Table 3 - Incurvarioidea

Table 4 - Tineoidea

Table 5 - Gracillarioidea

Table 6 - Gelechioidea

Table 7 - Copromorphoidea

Table 8 - Epermenioidea

Table 9 - Yponomeutoidea

Table 10 - Sesioidea

Table 11 - Choreutoidea

Table 12 - Cossoidea