THUMBNAILS OF MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES PHOTOGRAPHED IN ISRAEL

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WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ??? - This is the trash can for unidentified moths and butterflies.
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Adelidae Amphisbatidae Arctiidae Autostichidae Batrachedridae Bombycidae Coleophoridae Cosmopterigidae
Cossidae Crambidae Deoclonidae Depressariidae Drepanidae Elachistidae Epermeniidae Eriocraniidae
Ethmiidae Gelechiidae Geometridae Glyphipterigidae Gracillariidae Heliozelidae Hesperiidae Lasiocampidae
Lecithoceridae Lycaenidae Lymantriidae Lyonetiidae Micropterigidae Momphidae Nepticulidae Noctuidae
Nolidae Notodontidae Nymphalidae Oecophoridae Opostegidae Papilionidae Pieridae Plutellidae
Psychidae Pterolonchidae Pterophoridae Pyralidae Saturniidae Scythrididae Sesiidae Somabrachyidae
Sphingidae Stathmopodidae Thaumetopoeidae Tineidae Tischeriidae Tortricidae Yponomeutidae Ypsolophidae
Zygaenidae


Family: Arctiidae

Olepa scheini Dysauxes punctata Amata phegea


Family: Bombycidae

Bombyx mori


Family: Crambidae

Nomophila noctuella Aporodes floralis Duponchelia fovealis ? Palpita unionalis
A Crambid ?? Herpetogramma licarsisalis ? Possibly Pyrausta despicata


Family: Geometridae

Scopula submutata taurilibanotica Scopula sp Idaea sp. Idaea inquinata adherbariata
Eupithecia abbreviata ? ?? Idaea sp. Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Idaea inclinata Rhodometra sacraria


Family: Glyphipterygidae

Tebenna bjerkandrella ??


Family: Gracillariidae

Surely a Glacirallid? And probably another


Family: Hesperiidae

Gegenes gambica Carcharodus alceaea alceae Thymelicus sylvestris
small skipper
Spialia orbifer


Family: Lasiocampidae

Lasiocampa grandis & Lasiocampa trifolii ??


Family: Lycaenidae

Zizeeria karsandra karsandra Lampides boeticus Lycaena thersamon omphale Polyommatus icarus zelleri


Family: Noctuidae

Cornutiplusia circumflexa Agrochola lychnidis Noctua comes Ctenoplusia accentifera
Spodoptera littoralis larva Aedia funesta Ascotis selenaria Heliothis peltigera
Autographa gamma Simyra dentinosa (?)


Family: Nymphalidae

Maniola telmessia Vanessa atalanta Melanargia galathea Limenitis reducta schiffermuelleri
Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady


Family: Papilionidae

Papilio machaon
Swallowtail


Family: Pieridae

Pieris rapae
Small white
Coleas croceus
Clouded Yellow


Family: Psychidae

Amictoides lutea ?


Family: Pterophoridae

Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla ? Another Pterophorid Another Pterophorid


Family: Pyralidae

Plodia interpunctella
The Indian mealmoth
Cadra (Ephestia) cautella
The Tropical Warehouse moth
Ephestia sp. Ephestia kuehniella
Myelois sp.


Family: Sesiidae

Chamaesphecia proximata falax Chamaesphecia-aerifrons


Family: Sphingidae

Daphnis nerii
Oleander Hawk Moth
Acherontia atropos
Death's Head Hawk Moth


Family: Stathmopodidae

Stathmopoda


Family: Thaumetopoeidae

Thaumetopoea wilkinsonii


Family: Tineidae

The clothes moth


Family: Tortricidae

Lobesia botrana ?? Tortricid 2 ?? Tortricid 3 ?


Family: Yponomeutidae

Plutella xylostella (?)


Family: Zygaenidae

Zygaena graslini Adscita statices Rhagades pruni ??


Insects waiting to be identified

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