Moths and Butterflies of North Carolina
Variable Zanclognatha
The Variable Zanclognatha (Zanclognatha laevigata) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Manitoba to Nova Scotia, south to Florida and Missouri.
Peck's Skipper
The Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers). This skipper ranges across Canada from British Columbia, as far north as Cartwright, Labrador; Moar Lake, Ontario; Leaf Rapids, Manitoba; and the Hay River area in Alberta. In the US, it ranges in most of the northern and central ...more ↓
Rare Skipper
The Rare Skipper (Problema bulenta) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in isolated populations along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from southern New Jersey and Maryland south Georgia.
Clouded Skipper
The Clouded Skipper (Lerema accius) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in the United States from Georgia west to Texas, south to Florida, and south through Mexico and Central America to Venezuela and Colombia.
Twin-spotted sphinx
The Twin-spotted Sphinx (Smerinthus jamaicensis) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is widely distributed across North America and is found everywhere except in the southern half of western California. It has been taken as far north as the Yukon.
Spotted Peppergrass Moth
Eustixia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family, consisting of only one species, the Spotted Peppergrass Moth (Eustixia pupula). It is found from Massachusetts to Florida, west to Texas and north to Ontario.
Bent-line Carpet
The Traveller or Bent-line Carpet (Costaconvexa centrostrigaria) is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is native to most of North America, except the Arctic. It is an introduced species in Great Britain, the Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira.
The Beggar
The Beggar (Eubaphe mendica) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in eastern North America.
Confused Eusarca
The Confused eusarca (Eusarca confusaria) is a member of the Geometridae family that occurs in North America. It is the only member of the Eusarca genus that inhabits the northern portion of the United States and Canada.
Wormwood Pug
The Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is a common species across the Palearctic region and the Near East, as well as North America.
Cloaked Pug
Eupithecia mutata, the Spruce Cone Looper or Cloaked Pug, is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is found in the northern Atlantic and New England states in North America. In Canada, the range extends from Nova Scotia to northern Ontario.
Common Tan Wave
The Common Tan Wave Moth (Pleuroprucha insulsaria) is a species of moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in eastern North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas and Colorado and north to Ontario. It ranges south through Mexico and Central America into South America (including Venezuela) and has been recorded as far south as the Galapagos Islands. It has also ...more ↓
Flame-shouldered Dart
Ochropleura implecta is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Newfoundland to South Carolina, west to Arizona, north to British Columbia.
Greater Black-letter Dart
The Greater Black-letter Dart, Woodland Spotted Cutworm or Spotted Cutworm (Xestia dolosa) is a moth of the Noctuidae family (Note that the common name Spotted Cutworm is also used for larvae of Xestia c-nigrum). It is found from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island to Florida west to Texas, north to North Dakota and Manitoba.
Gemmed Satyr
The Gemmed Satyr (Cyllopsis gemma) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the South-Eastern United States and North-Eastern Mexico.
Black-bordered Lemon Moth
The Black-bordered Lemon Moth (Marimatha nigrofimbria) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Massachusetts westward through northern Ohio to Illinois and Oklahoma and southward to southern Florida and southernmost Texas.
Pawpaw Sphinx
The Pawpaw Sphinx (Dolba hyloeus) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges throughout the eastern United States from Maine south to Florida, and west to Wisconsin, eastern Oklahoma, and southern Texas.
Lapara coniferarum
The Southern Pine Sphinx (Lapara coniferarum) is a species of sphinx moth. It is known from mixed and pine forests from Nova Scotia and Maine south to Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
Ash Sphinx
The Ash Sphinx (Manduca jasminearum) is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It ranges from east of the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, being common in the Northeast United States.
Modest Sphinx
The Modest Sphinx or Poplar Sphinx (Pachysphinx modesta) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges from the southern United States up and throughout Canada.
Small-eyed Sphinx
The Small-eyed Sphinx (Paonias myops) is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from south-eastern Canada to Florida and westward almost to the Pacific Coast. It is also known from Mexico.
Wild Cherry Sphinx
The Wild Cherry Sphinx (Sphinx drupiferarum) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found from the temperate parts of the United States to southern Canada.
Deidamia inscriptum
The Lettered Sphinx (Deidamia inscriptum) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is the only member of the Deidamia genus. It is found from Florida to Mississippi, and in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec and South Carolina.
Large Maple Spanworm
The Large Maple Spanworm (Prochoerodes lineola) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas and north to Alberta.
Huckleberry Sphinx Moth
The Huckleberry Sphinx (Paonias astylus) is a moth in the family Sphingidae. It is found in eastern North America, from Maine south to Florida, west to Missouri and Mississippi.
Sphinx gordius
The Apple Sphinx (Sphinx gordius) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the northern parts of the United States and southern Canada, mostly east of the Rocky Mountains, additionally it is found along the east coast to Florida and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.
Darapsa versicolor
The Hydrangea sphinx (Darapsa versicolor) is a member of the Sphingidae family that inhabits eastern North America, often in wetlands.
Celery Leaftier
The celery leaftier or greenhouse leaftier (Udea rubigalis) is a member of the Crambidae family which has a range throughout North America, Central America and South America.
Dark Phalaenostola
The Punctuated Owlet (Phalaenostola eumelusalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from New Brunswick, North Dakota and South Dakota to Maine, south to Georgia and Iowa. In the north it is also found in Saskatchewan.
marbled underwing moth
The Marbled Underwing (Catocala marmorata) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Vermont to South Carolina and west to Indiana and Illinois.
Isoparce cupressi
The Baldcypress Sphinx or Cypress Sphinx (Isoparce cupressi) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in Cypress swamps in from Maryland to Texas. It has been reported from Mexico.
Regal Fritillary
The Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) is a striking nymphalid butterfly found among some of the remaining tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies in the east-central United States. This prairie-specialist butterfly has a characteristic deep orange color and unmistakable dark hindwings with two bands of spots (Brock 2003). On the female, both bands of spots are white. However, ...more ↓
American Dagger Moth
The American Dagger Moth (Acronicta americana) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is native to North America.
Tufted Apple Bud Moth
The Tufted Apple Bud Moth (Platynota idaeusalis) is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in eastern North America, from Ontario, south to Florida, west to Oklahoma.
Red-headed Inchworm Moth
The Redheaded Inchworm (Macaria bisignata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Newfoundland to Georgia, west to Arizona, north to Ontario.
White-fringed Emerald
The White-fringed Emerald or Flanged Looper (Nemoria mimosaria) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to south-eastern Alberta, south to Virginia, Illinois and Texas.
The Laugher
The Laugher or Marbled Tuffet Moth (Charadra deridens) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, through most of the United States except the south-western states.
Signate Melanolophia
The Signate Melanolophia (Melanolophia signataria) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Saskatchewan and east Texas.
Creole Pearly-eye
The Creole Pearly Eye (Enodia creola) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from North Carolina and central Georgia west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
common fungus moth
The Common Fungus Moth (Metalectra discalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Quebec and Wisconsin to Maine, south to Florida, west to Texas and Missouri, north to Ontario.
Lochmaeus manteo
The Variable Oakleaf Caterpillar Moth (Lochmaeus manteo) is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in eastern North America.
Brown-collared Dart
The Brown-collared Dart (Protolampra brunneicollis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in eastern North America from New Brunswick to Alberta in southern Canada, and in the United States from Maine to North Carolina and Tennessee west to Mississippi, north to Minnesota, with scattered records in the west from North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.
Red-humped caterpillar
The Red-humped Caterpillar (Schizura concinna) is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found from southern Canada to Florida and California.
Macrochilo louisiana
The Louisiana Macrochilo or Louisiana Snout-moth (Macrochilo louisiana) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to Alberta.
Korscheltellus gracilis
The Conifer Swift Moth (Korscheltellus gracilis) is a swift moth considered a forest pest in eastern and central North America, from Canada south to North Carolina. Larvae feed primarily on roots of evergreen trees, and are weakly polyphagous, able to survive on deciduous trees (e.g. birches, Betula) but preferring Balsam fir and red spruce. They penetrate bark, but ...more ↓
Gorgone Checkerspot
The Gorgone Checkerspot (Chlosyne gorgone) is a species of Nymphalinae that occurs in North America.
Common Spring Moth
Heliomata cycladata, the Common Spring Moth, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in eastern North America, with records from southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, northern Mississippi and Arkansas.
Carlotta's Tiger Moth
Apantesis carlotta, Carlotta's Tiger Moth, is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Ferguson in 1985. . It is found from Maine to Georgia, west to North Dakota and Texas.
Satyrium titus
The Coral Hairstreak (Satyrium titus) is a North American butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Euphyes bimacula
The Two-spotted Skipper (Euphyes bimacula) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in North America, from northeast Colorado and western Nebraska; eastern Nebraska east to southern Quebec; southern Maine south to central Virginia; coastal plain south to Georgia; the Gulf Coast.
Frosted Elfin
The Frosted Elfin (Callophrys irus) is a species of Lycaenidae that is native to North America.
Meal Moth
The Meal Moth (Pyralis farinalis) is a cosmopolitan moth of the family Pyralidae. Its larvae (caterpillars) are pests of certain stored foods, namely milled plant products.
Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth
Lithacodes fasciola, the Yellow-shouldered slug or Ochre-winged hag moth, is a moth of the family Limacodidae.
Southern Skipperling
The Southern Skipperling (Copaeodes minima) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from Arkansas east to North Carolina, south through Florida, the Gulf states, Texas, and Mexico to Panama.
White-banded Black
The White-banded Black Moth (Rheumaptera subhastata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the Palearctic and Nearctic ecozones, where it is widely distributed in western North America.
Dusky Roadside-Skipper
Amblyscirtes alternata (the Dusky Roadside Skipper or Blue-dusted Roadside Skipper) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from south-eastern Virginia south to Florida, west to east Texas.
Hypena eductalis
The Red-footed Bomolocha Moth or Alder Smoke (Hypena eductalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia south to Florida and Texas.
Acronicta albarufa
Barrens Dagger Moth (Acronicta albarufa) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It has a fragmented distribution that includes southern Ontario and Manitoba, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Colorado. It may also be present in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, mainland New York and New Mexico. It has been ...more ↓
Prolimacodes badia
The Skiff Moth (Prolimacodes badia) is a moth of the Limacodidae family. It is found from New Hampshire to Florida, west to southern Ontario, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Reticulated Fruitworm Moth
The Reticulated Sparganothis (Sparganothis reticulatana) is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in most of eastern North America.
Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth
The Lesser Maple Spanworm (Speranza pustularia) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Mississippi, north to North Dakota and Saskatchewan.
Acronicta lanceolaria
The Lanceolate Dagger Moth or Pointed Dagger (Acronicta lanceolaria) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.
Ovate Dagger Moth
The Ovate Dagger Moth (Acronicta ovata) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to Texas, north to Manitoba.
Acronicta perblanda
Acronicta perblanda is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Carteret County, North Carolina and Stoddard County, Missouri to northern Florida to southern Louisiana.
