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  • The Insect Orders
    • Orders A-M
      • Archaeognatha (Bristletails)
      • Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
      • Coleoptera (Beetles)
      • Dermaptera (Earwigs)
      • Diptera (Flies)
      • Embioptera (Web-Spinners)
      • Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
      • Hemiptera (Bugs, hoppers, scales & aphids)
      • Hymenoptera (Sawflies, Bees, Wasps & Ants)
      • Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
      • Mantodea (Mantids)
      • Mecoptera (Hanging Flies, Scorpion Flies)
      • Megaloptera (Alderflies, Dobsonflies)
    • Orders N-Z
      • Neuroptera (Net-winged Insects)
      • Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
      • Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and Crickets)
      • Phasmida (Stick & Leaf Insects)
      • Phthiraptera (Lice)
      • Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
      • Psocoptera (Booklice & Psocids)
      • Strepsiptera (Strepsipterans)
      • Siphonaptera (Fleas)
      • Thysanoptera (Thrips)
      • Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
      • Zygentoma = Thysanura (Silverfish)
  • The Pseudo Insects
    • Class Entognatha (the Pseudo Insects; Diplura & Protura)
    • Class Collembola (Springtails)

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On this page click on the picture to take you to the moth pages.

   Tawhitia pentadactylus    IMG 8449  IMG 0154  Tasmanian Crest-moth, Paralaea tasmanica  Eulechria capsellata    IMG 8450     IMG 5988 1  Hermenias rivulifera  Tan-spotted Grey, Pingasa cinerea  IMG 5600  Red-lined Looper Moth, Crypsiphona ocultaria  Grey-patch Bark Moth, Scioglyptis chionomera (female)  Thick-lined Bark Moth, Didymoctenia exsuperata  Light Grey Bark Moth, Scioglyptis loxographa  Ringed Bark Moth, Ectropis fractaria  Ceromitia sp. (Adelidae)    Pedois lewinella   Late Scale-moth, Mataeomera mesotaenia  Loop-line Bark Moth, Ectropis bispinaria  Forest Bark Moth, Syneora mundifera  Crossed Tuft-moth, Nola crucigera  Pyralidae  Distorted Carpet, Microdes villosata  Ectopatria sp. cf. Strepsicrates ejectana   IMG 6407  Clearly-marked Tuft-moth, Nola delograpta  White-point Crest-moth, Chlenias ochrocrana (female)  Boisduval's Autumn Moth, Oenosandra boisduvalii (male)  Heteromicta pachytera J Duggan02 m  Cycota Tuft-moth, Nola cycota  Black-lined Tuft-moth, Nola melanogramma   Unplaced Geometrinae species, melanoglypta  Dichromodes ainaria cropped  Stibaroma sp. (1)  Stibaroma sp. (1)  Wilson's Grey, Cyneoterpna wilsoni  Scoparia nr. philonephes  IMG 0966  Plain Tuft-moth, Nola pleurosema   Nola sp.  Orange Fruit Borer, Isotenes miserana  IMG 8447   Ericrypsina chorodoxa  White-winged Wedge-moth, Capusa cuculloides   Leptogeneia bicristata    Streaked Snout, Meyrickella ruptellus  Philobota atmobola   IMG 8003   Anthelidae Anthela  Ribbed Wine Moth, Oenochroma vetustaria (male)  Omega Heath Moth, Dichromodes euscia  cf. Nearcha sp.  Fine-waved Bark Moth, Psilosticha absorpta  Tasmanian Red-lined Looper Moth, Crypsiphona tasmanica      Southern Grey, Hypobapta percomptaria

The Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania team acknowledges the palawa people; the traditional owners of lutruwita/ Tasmania. We respect their knowledge, connection and care of the land that we share and its ecosystems, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.  

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