Online Australian Moth Identification Resources

INSTITUTIONS

Bold Systems V4, http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php

CSIRO - Australian Moths Online, http://amo.ala.org.au/main.php ... also http://www1.ala.org.au/gallery2/main.php

Atlas of Living Australia, https://www.ala.org.au/

Butterflies and Moths (Queensland Museum), http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about
/Animals+of+Queensland/Insects/Butterflies+and+moths?tab=6#.XBLQNM1OmUl

Bowerbird, http://www.bowerbird.org.au/

Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club, INc. (Moths),
http://www.boic.org.au/index.html?page=/html/mothgallery.html

Australian Faunal Directory - taxonomic inquiry
http://www.environment.gov.au/science/abrs/databases/afd/contact-us
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FACEBOOK GROUPS

Australian butterfly & moth Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/799465170167144/

Butterflies, Moths and other Insects of Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/170745013686340/

Amateur Entomology Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmateurEntomologyAustralia/

PERSONAL COLLECTIONS/Online guides

Ellura Sanctuary (Moths and Butterflies), https://www.ellura.info/Lepidoptera.html
(Brett Smith)

Moths of Tropical Queensland , http://www.leapfrogoz.com.au/moths-of-tropical-queensland-australia/moth-identification/
(Buck Richardson)

Insects of Townsville (Lepidoptera), http://www.kooka.info/Lepidoptera/lepidoptera.htm
(Graeme Cocks)

XYLORYCTINE MOTHS OF AUSTRALIA, http://xyloryctinemothsofaustralia.blogspot.com/
(Ian McMIllan)

Flickr Field Guide: Butterflies & Moths of Australia, https://www.flickr.com/groups/aus_lepidoptera/

Coff's Harbor Butterfly House, Families of Moths in Australia, http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/imagos.html

Brisbane Insects (Moths), http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_moths/

Australian Butterflies and Moths , http://www.pbase.com/conroy11/ausbutflys&page=all
(Gary Sankowski)

Gippsland Mothing, http://www.natureofgippsland.org/mothing/

Egbert Friedrich, http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Australische_Arten

Insects of Tasmania: Lepidoptera,
https://sites.google.com/site/insectsoftasmanialepidoptera/

NE N.S.W. (New England Escarpment): Hawk Moth Collection,
http://butterfliesdorrigo.weebly.com/hawk-moths-gallery.html
Trev and Carol

TAXON-SPECIFIC Literature online

The sun-moths of Western Australia (Western Australian Museum), http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAMRecords_2016_31(2)_90to162_WILLIAMSetal_1.pdf
DNA Analysis Finds New Diamondback Moth Species in Australia, https://entomologytoday.org/2013/08/30/dna-analysis-finds-new-diamondback-moth-species-in-australia/
Synemon plana — Golden Sun Moth, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=25234
Australian Hepialidae, https://australianhepialidae.wordpress.com/
Phyllodes imperialis smithersi — Pink Underwing Moth, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=86084
Revising the Nacophorini moths of southern Australia (Nov 2017, work on Thalaina sp.), https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/revising-the-nacapherini-moths-of-southern-australia/9139696
Macroglossinae Summary (LEP BARCODE: AUSTRALIA); http://lepbarcoding.org/australia/progress_reports.php?region=1&lvl=subfamily&type=Macroglossinae
Hepialidae (ghost moths) and other Exoporia of the world; http://johngrehan.net/index.php/hepialidae/
Hepialidae: Abantiades; http://johngrehan.net/index.php/hepialidae/abantiades
Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera , https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/150/2/343/2607402
Description of Crypsiphona tasmanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae), with notes on limitations in using DNA barcodes for delimiting species, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-6055.2009.00695.x
Australian Sphingidae – DNA Barcodes Challenge Current Species Boundaries and Distributions (2014), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079597/
The Australian Arctiid Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) with emphasis on Creatonotos gangis (Jun 2012, Peter Hendry); http://www.boic.org.au/files/The%20Australian%20Arctiid%20Moths.pdf
REVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN PHYLLODES IMPERIALIS DRUCE (LEPIDOPTERA: EREBIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES FROM SUBTROPICAL (2012); https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP121773&dsid=DS5

SITE SPECIFIC Literature

Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest (Atherton Tablelands, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00490.x

Migrating moths (Lepidoptera) collected in tower-mounted light traps in northern New South Wales, Australia: species composition and seasonal abundance, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-entomological-research/article/migrating-moths-lepidoptera-collected-in-towermounted-light-traps-in-northern-new-south-wales-australia-species-composition-and-seasonal-abundance/7196E215090EA18BFBA6BC93C5B2C435

OFFSHORE SITES

Moths of Borneo, http://www.mothsofborneo.com/

Posted on January 24, 2019 10:18 PM by vicfazio3