Daily Archives: March 23, 2014

These five photographs introduce our local Amphipyrine Sallows (Family Noctuidae, Subfamily Amphipyrinae).  Moths shown here represent four genera and five different species found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota.   

Try to identity these moths by matching these images with those found on pages 408-415 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America.  

Click on the link below to view photographs of many other species of Amphipyrine Sallows archived in the Moth Photographer’s Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/slow.php?plate=58.0

Try to identify the family and genus for each one of the ten moths shown below.  Use the Peterson Field Guide or the online version of the Moth Photographers Guide (click here: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/WalkThroughIndex.shtml). Good luck!  Answers will to Quiz 1 will be posted with Quiz 2.

Moth 1

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 2

 

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 3

 

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 4

 

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 5

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 6

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 7

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 8

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 9

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________

Moth 10

Family ___________________________

Genus ___________________________