Arthropods of Fishers Peak State Park
Fisher's Peak is Colorado's newest state park! The 19,200-acre property connects grasslands to the east with foothills and mountains to the west, serving as an important corridor for wildlife movement. Providing habitat for large native species like elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain ...more ↓
Police Car Moth
The Police-Car Moth or Green Lattice (Gnophaela vermiculata) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in the western parts of the United States and south-western Canada, from British Columbia to California, east to New Mexico and north to Manitoba.
Neighbor Moth
Haploa contigua, the neighbor moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in eastern North America, from Quebec to the mountains of Georgia and west to South Dakota, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Leconte's Haploa Moth
Haploa lecontei (Leconte's haploa) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found Nova Scotia to Georgia, west to Manitoba through Arkansas.
Reversed Haploa Moth
Haploa reversa, the reversed haploa, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Stretch in 1885. It is found in North America, from south-eastern Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Veined Ctenucha Moth
Ctenucha venosa, the veined ctenucha moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1854. It is found from southern Nevada and Arizona to Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela.
Freckled Glassy-wing
Pseudohemihyalea labecula, the freckled glassy-wing, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grote in 1881. It is found in southern Nevada, Utah, from Colorado to Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
Silver-spotted Tiger Moth
Lophocampa argentata, the silver-spotted tiger moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Packard in 1864. It is found from British Columbia to southern California, and east to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and possibly to northern Mexico.
Spotted Tussock Moth
Lophocampa maculata (spotted tussock moth, mottled tiger or spotted halisidota) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found across Canada, the western parts of the United States, south in Appalachians to South Carolina and Kentucky.
Yellow-headed Lichen Moth
Crambidia cephalica, the yellow-headed lichen moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Grote and Robinson in 1870. It is found in the central and southern part of the United States, from eastern Nevada, Utah and Arizona to southern Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina and northern Georgia. The habitat consists of steppes and open forests.
Scarlet-winged Lichen Moth
Hypoprepia miniata (scarlet-winged lichen moth or scarlet lichen moth) is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from British Columbia south through the western side of the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and Texas. It is also found throughout eastern North America.
Bruceia pulverina
Bruceia pulverina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Berthold Neumögen in 1893. It is found from southern British Columbia and north-western Idaho, south through the Rocky Mountain states to the Mexico border and from southern Arizona to western Texas.
White-marked Tussock Moth
The white-marked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma) is a moth in the family Erebidae. The caterpillar is very common especially in late summer in eastern North America, extending as far west as Texas, Colorado, and Alberta. Also found in Europe and Taiwan.
White-dotted Prominent
The rough prominent (Nadata gibbosa) is a moth of the family Notodontidae, possibly in the subfamily Notodontidae. It is also known as the white-dotted prominent and the tawny prominent. This common moth is found across North America from the northern boreal forests to as far south as Florida. It is most common in deciduous forests at some elevation. It is ...more ↓
Dingy Cutworm Moth
The dingy cutworm (Feltia jaculifera), also known as the Bent-line dart, is a member of the family Noctuidae and is common throughout North America. There are three other species of Feltia that are often confused for F. jaculifera and they are F. herilis, F. subgothica and F. tricosa.
Richia chortalis
Richia chortalis is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Richia parentalis
Richia parentalis is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Richia serano
Richia serano is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Venerable Dart
The Dusky Cutworm (Agrotis venerabilis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from coast to coast from central Canada south to Mexico.
Army Cutworm Moth
The army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) is a species of moth. Its nickname "miller moth" comes from the fine scales on its wings that rub off easily and remind people of the dusty flour that covers the clothing of a miller.
Civil Rustic Moth
Caradrina montana is a small moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is common to western North America as well as western Asia and Europe. It feeds on alfalfa leaves.
Yellow-headed Cutworm Moth
Apamea amputatrix, the yellow-headed cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of North America, north to the Arctic.
Bryolymnia semifascia
The Half-banded Bryolymnia (Bryolymnia semifascia) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from northern Colorado and southern Utah southward to south-eastern Arizona and south-central New Mexico.
Bristly Cutworm Moth
The Kidney-spotted Minor or Bristly Cutworm (Lacinipolia renigera) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is endemic to most of North America with the exception of Yukon and Alaska.
Wheat Head Armyworm
The Wheat Head Armyworm (Dargida diffusa) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Eastern North America, except Yukon and Alaska.
Cucullia dorsalis
Cucullia dorsalis is a species of owlet moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Corn Earworm Moth
Helicoverpa zea, commonly known as the corn earworm, is a species (formerly in the genus Heliothis) in the family Noctuidae. The larva of the moth Helicoverpa zea is a major agricultural pest. Since it is polyphagous (feeds on many different plants) during the larval stage, the species has been given many different common names, including the cotton ...more ↓
Confused Meganola Moth
Meganola minuscula, the confused meganola, is a species of nolid moth in the family Nolidae. It is found in North America.
Gray Scoopwing
Callizzia amorata, the gray scoopwing moth, is a species of swallowtail moth of the family Uraniidae and is found in North America.
Maple Spanworm Moth
Ennomos magnaria, known by the common names maple spanworm moth, notched wing moth, notched-wing geometer, and notch-wing moth, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern United States, south in the east to Florida and Louisiana and in the west to California.
Shaded Granite Moth
Digrammia curvata, the shaded granite, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Curve-lined Angle
Digrammia continuata, the curve-lined angle, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Brunswick to Florida, west to California and north to Manitoba.
White Slant-line
The White Slant-line or White Slaut (Tetracis cachexiata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to central British Columbia, south to northern Florida and west to Montana and northern Colorado.
Common Gray
Anavitrinella pampinaria, the common gray, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in most of North America except the arctic regions, south to Mexico.
Cochisea sonomensis
Cochisea sonomensis is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
Mottled Euchlaena Moth
Euchlaena tigrinaria, the mottled euchlaena, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from New Brunswick to Virginia, west to Texas, Utah and Oregon, north to British Columbia.
Phaeoura mexicanaria
Phaeoura mexicanaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, including British Columbia, California, Texas and Washington.
Large Lace-border Moth
Scopula limboundata, the large lace-border, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Haworth in 1809. It is found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. There is a single and unconfirmed record from Great Britain.
Speckled Wave
Lobocleta peralbata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona to Florida, north to North Carolina.
Hypsopygia cohortalis
Hypsopygia cohortalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia. It is found in North America, including Colorado, Arizona, California, New Mexico and Ohio.
Lucerne Moth
Nomophila nearctica, the lucerne moth, clover nomophila, false webworm, celery stalkworm or American celery webworm, is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is known from southern Canada and all of the United States, south to Mexico and the Neotropics.
Alfalfa Webworm Moth
Loxostege cereralis, the alfalfa webworm, is a species of moth of the Crambidae family. It is found from Quebec to British Columbia, south to Mexico in the west.
Topiary Grass-veneer
Chrysoteuchia topiarius, the topiary grass-veneer moth, subterranean sod webworm or cranberry girdler, is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found in most of North America.
Woolly Grass-veneer Moth
Thaumatopsis pexellus, the woolly grass-veneer, is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Zeller in 1863. It is found in most of North America. The habitat consists of grasslands.
Platytes vobisne
Platytes vobisne is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1920. It has been recorded from the US states of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The habitat consists of grasslands.
Snowy Urola Moth
Urola nivalis, the snowy urola moth, is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found from southern Canada and Maine, south to Florida and west to Illinois and Texas.
Eufernaldia cadarella
Eufernaldia cadarellus is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1896. It has been found in Mexico and the US states of Arizona, Texas and Utah.
Diamondback Moth
The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), sometimes called the cabbage moth, is a moth species belonging to the Plutellidae family and Plutella genus. The small, grayish-brown moth sometimes has a cream-colored band that forms a diamond along its back. It's believed that the species may have originated in Europe, South Africa, or the Mediterranean region, but it ...more ↓
Ypsolopha falciferella
Ypsolopha falciferella is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae. It is found throughout much of North America, including British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Michigan and Maryland. It is known from a wide variety of habitats, including mixed wood forests, riparian habitats and semi-arid scrubland.
White-based Mompha
Mompha murtfeldtella is a moth in the Momphidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Taygete decemmaculella
Taygete decemmaculella is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1875. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.
Stilbosis tesquella
Stilbosis tesquella is a moth in the Cosmopterigidae family. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Quebec, Tennessee and West Virginia.
American Lappet Moth
Phyllodesma americana, the American lappet moth, is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It is found from Nova Scotia to Georgia, west through Texas to California, north to British Columbia and Yukon.
Glorious Habrosyne Moth
Habrosyne gloriosa, the glorious habrosyne moth, is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from the northern United States, south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. In Canada, it is found in Ontario and Quebec.
Western Harvester Ant
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, or the western harvester ant, is a species of ant that inhabits the deserts and arid grasslands of the American West at or below 6,300 feet (1,900 m). Like other harvester ants in the genus Pogonomyrmex, it is so called because of its habit of collecting edible seeds and other food items. The specific epithet "occidentalis", ...more ↓
Little Black Ant
The little black ant (Monomorium minimum) is a species of ant native to North America. It is a shiny black color, the workers about 1 to 2 mm long and the queens 4 to 5 mm long. It is a monomorphic species, with only one caste of worker, and polygyne, meaning a nest may have more than one queen. A colony is usually moderately sized with only a few thousand workers.
Elegant Grass-carrying Wasp
Isodontia elegans is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae.
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
Black and yellow mud dauber is a common name for the sphecid wasp species Sceliphron caementarium.
Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp
The blue mud dauber (Chalybion californicum) is a metallic blue species of mud dauber wasp that is the primary predator of black widow spiders. Females build their own nests, but occasionally refurbish nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps, particularly Sceliphron. It is not normally aggressive. It is similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter ...more ↓
Humped Beewolf
Philanthus gibbosus, which is commonly referred to as a beewolf due to its predation practices, is a species of bee-hunting wasp and is the most common and widespread member of the genus in North America. P. gibbosus is of the order Hymenoptera and the genus Philanthus. It is native to the Midwestern United States and the western Appalachians. P. gibbosus ...more ↓
Bicyrtes ventralis
Bicyrtes ventralis is a species of sand wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
White-shouldered Bumble Bee
Bombus appositus is a species of bumblebee known commonly as the white-shouldered bumblebee. It is native to western North America, including western Canada and the western United States.
Nevada Bumble Bee
Bombus nevadensis, the Nevada bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee. It is native to North America, where it occurs from Alaska to California in the west, and east to Wisconsin, and in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
Great Basin Bumble Bee
Bombus centralis, the central bumblebee, is a species of bumble bee found in parts of Canada and the western United States.
Hunt's Bumble Bee
Bombus huntii is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the United States as far east as Manitoba and Minnesota, and in Mexico as far south as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It is known commonly as the Hunt bumblebee or Hunt's bumblebee.
Western Honey Bee
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee", and mellifera is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey for the winter.
Striped Sweat Bees
The genus Agapostemon is a common group of Western Hemisphere sweat bees, most of which are known as metallic green sweat bees for their color.
Lasioglossum
The sweat bee genus Lasioglossum is the largest of all bee genera, containing over 1700 species in numerous subgenera worldwide. They are highly variable in size, coloration, and sculpture; among the more unusual variants, some are cleptoparasites, some are nocturnal, and some are oligolectic. Most Lasioglossum species nest in the ground, but some nest in rotten ...more ↓
Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee
Megachile pugnata is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Say in 1837.
Western Paper Wasp
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis is a social paper wasp found in western North America. Their nests can be found both in forests close to rivers or in close proximity to human life under the eaves of roofs. Despite the fact that M. flavitarsis nests are frequently in close contact with humans, M. flavitarsis typically will not sting, but rather ram into the threatening ...more ↓
Punctured Tiger Beetle
Cicindela punctulata, the Punctured Tiger Beetle, is a species of Tiger Beetle (Subfamily Cicindelinae) commonly found across much of the US, Southeastern Canada, and in parts of Northern Mexico.
Purple Tiger Beetle
Cicindela purpurea, known generally as the purple tiger beetle or cow path tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.
Warrior Beetles
Pasimachus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
Dicaelus sculptilis
Dicaelus sculptilis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.
Laccophilus proximus
Laccophilus proximus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, and North America.
