Species with Funny English Common Names

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All 117

Taxonomy
« Back To Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
- Butterflies and Moths Order Lepidoptera
  - 1 Curved-horn Moths Superfamily Gelechioidea
  - 7 Owlet Moths and Allies Superfamily Noctuoidea

The Slowpoke ¹
Athetis tarda

Grateful Midget ¹
Elaphria grata

Delightful Dagger Moth ¹
Acronicta vinnula

Cynical Quaker ¹
Orthodes cynica

Ulolonche modesta ²

Sideridis congermana ²

Nycteola metaspilella ³

Battaristis concinusella ¹

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