What is a Moth? A presentation for National Moth Week By Deborah Lievens.
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What is a Moth?
A presentation for National Moth WeekBy Deborah Lievens
What is a Moth?
It’s an Arthropod - an invertebrate animal with an exoskeleton- a segmented body- jointed appendages
MOTHS are Insects (Class Insecta)- 3 body regions, 3 pairs of legs on the thorax, 2 pairs of wings and 1 pair of antennae
MOTHs are in order Lepidoptera having:- 4 membranous wings covered with scales made of chitin
- a long coiled proboscis for sucking liquid food
- a caterpillar-like larval form and- it undergoes complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa (chrysalis in butterflies), adult
An important difference between moths and butterflies is in the antennae
Harris’s Checkerspot
Painted Lichen Moth
clubbed
not clubbed
Kinds of Moth Antennae
Bipectinate
Filiform Pectinate
So maybe moths are night flying butterflies and butterflies are day flying moths.
The French and Spanish have only one word:Papillion and Mariposa
Hodges system gives numbers to all moths in North America north of Mexico and butterflies are in the middle between microlepidoptera and macrolepidoptera.
Microlepidoptera:
• tend to be small, concealed feeders: leaf miners, borers, leaf rollers, or creators of plant galls• very host specific• usually fly at night• primitive (as in early in the development of Lepidoptera) or “primitive macros”• Wings held flat or tented• Antennae filiform
Butterflies:• Usually day flyers• Hold wings closed over bodies, mostly• Antennae clubbed
Macrolepidoptera
•Usually night flyers•Wings held flat or tented (exceptions)•Antennae filiform or pectinate•External feeders•Feeding habits are general
Moths come in ALL sizes
Rothschildia Silkmoth probably 12-13 cmEcuador
Chinkapin Leaf-miner Moth 5 mm
Swammerdamia 7 mm
Scientists estimate there are 150,000 to morethan 500,000 moth species
Unknown Micro 3 mm
Various Microlepidoptera
Tortricid Moths - TortricidaeBlack-patched Clepsis Moth
Three-streaked Sparganothis Moth
“The Dude”
Slug Moths - LimacodidaeJewel Tailed Slug Moth
Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth
Spiny Oak Slug Moth
and caterpillar
Pyralid Moths - Pyralidae
Drab Condylolomia Moth Orange Tufted Oneida Moth
The Bee Moth
Plume Moths - Pterophoridae
Artichoke Plume Moth Grape Plume Moth
Morning Glory Plume Moth
Various Macrolepidoptera
Geometers - GeometridaePale beauty
Maple spanworm moth White –fringed Emerald
Large Lace Borer Moth White-ribboned Carpet Moth
Pale Metanema
Sphinx Moths - SphingidaeNorthern pine sphinx
Blinded sphinx
Small-eyed sphinx
Nessus sphinx Nessus sphinx
Prominent Moths - Notodontidae
White dotted prominent Chocolate prominent
Black-rimmed prominent
Lichen Moths - Arctiidae
Painted lichen moth
Isabella Moth
Virgin tiger moth
Banded tussock moth
“Bird Dropping” Moths – various sub families
Pink- barred Pseudostrotia
Owl-Eyed Bird Dropping Moth
Black-dotted Glyph
Tufted Bird Dropping Moth
Green Leuconycta
Concepts: Camoflage
Moths of Ecuador
The End
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