Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Butterflies and Moths
This guide contains butterflies and moths that can be found in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.
Gerdana caritella
Gerdana is a genus of moths in the Autostichidae family. It contains only one species, Gerdana caritella, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from south-eastern Canada and the eastern United States.
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.
Four-spotted Yellowneck Moth
Oegoconia novimundi is a moth of the Symmocidae family. It is found in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, former Serbia and Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and on Corsica and the Azores.
Poison Hemlock Moth
The Hemlock Moth, also known as the Defoliating Hemlock Moth or Poison Hemlock Moth, is a moth species of the family Oecophoridae (concealer moths). Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Depressariinae, which is (particularly in older sources) sometimes placed in the related family Elachistidae instead, or elevated to a full family Depressariidae within the Gelechioidea. ...more ↓
Ethmia albistrigella
Ethmia albistrigella is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from southern British Columbia southward in the Rocky Mountains to south-western Colorado and into the Wasatch Range in northern Utah. On the Pacific coast it ranges through western Washington and Oregon into the mountains of California. Subspecies icariella is an Arctic-Alpine zone race which has only ...more ↓
Mountain-mahogany Moth
The Mountain-mahogany Moth (Ethmia discostrigella) is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from the western United States, south into Mexico.
Ethmia semitenebrella
Ethmia semitenebrella is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Nuevo León in Mexico to Arizona and southern and eastern California.
Gray Ethmia Moth
The gray ethmia moth (Ethmia monticola) is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Arizona, east at least to North Dakota and Colorado.
Ethmia marmorea
Ethmia marmorea is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found in the lower parts of the Great Basin mountain ranges and the Rocky Mountains from south-eastern British Columbia and the eastern parts of the Pacific states to northern and central Colorado and central Chihuahua.
Ethmia mirusella
Ethmia mirusella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is found in the United States from Kansas and Oklahoma to central and western Texas.
Chionodes abella
Chionodes abella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Idaho and south-western British Columbia to Colorado, Texas and California.
