Lepidoptera
Moths
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 List of Iowa in Hodges number order
To go to the species page, click on the link in the Hodges number field.
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 22-1 - Noctuoidea - Notodontiidae
Table 22-2 - Noctuoidea - Erebidae
Table 22-3 - Noctuoidea - Euteliidae
Table 22-4 - Noctuoidea - Nolidae
Table 22-5 - Noctuoidea - Noctuidae
Moth List of Iowa in Genus Species order
To go to the species page, click on the link in the Hodges number field.
Table 1 - Abagrotis alternata to Cepphis armataria
Table 2 - Cerastis tenebrifera - Eustixia pupula
Table 3 - Eutrapela clemataria - Melanomma auricinctaria
Table 4 - Melittia cucurbitae - Probole alienaria
Table 5 - Probole amicaria - Zenophleps lignicolorata
Moth Collection Data - Here you will find the collection data that we have for the moths we have found in Iowa.