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I have been looking through my photos from 2007 and 2008 and IDing many of the moth images I have and I have a few I need help with, if anyone knows what these are, it would be appreciated:

Moth1:


Moth2:


Moth3:


Moth4:


Moth5:


Moth6:


Moth7 (Plume moth of some sort, that's all I know):


Moth8: (This was taken at a bog not far away from where I live and I think its a type of carpet moth) 12/07/2008:

square spot rustic
don't know
diamond backed moth
white shouldered house moth
don't know
don't know
possibly faded, small fan footed wave (not 100%)
don't know
a faded.... green carpet

they would be my guesses

Chris

Thanks for help on ones you tried to ID. The one you said is white shouldered house moth has similar marking as one, but when I see these ones (like on in photo) they are always that long thin shape and about a bit bigger and similar shape as the diamond back moth, not like white shouldered house moths I know of and the tail of that moth is not like white shouldered house moth as far as I know.

Here's my opinion:
1: agree
2: Gelechiidae
3: agree
4: agree that it is NOT the White Shouldered...
5: ???
6: probably agree
7: Stenoptilia sp. ?
8: agree

I would not try to mess with number two even if it were in pristine condition.

Number four is indeed something else, but I can't recall the family, let alone Genus.

Next!

Hi JKT, that number 2 I thought was a piece of wood that was laying about, but it was not that big of a moth, about a few cm at most. I agree now that 1 is square spot rustic and 3 is diamondback and looking at another faded green carpet image I had from another time, I agree that's one too. I am thinking 6 is small fan footed wave at looking at more photos.

Hi Dave
Have you thought about one of the Beauties for #5 poss (Mottled)

A wild guess at #7 would be in the Pterophoridae (Stenoptilia pterodactyla).

Dave McCormick wrote:Hi JKT, that number 2 I thought was a piece of wood that was laying about, but it was not that big of a moth, about a few cm at most.

I would have quessed that the length might be around 1 cm making the span under 2 cm. I just meant that Gelechiidae as a group are way beyond my capabilities to ID.

2. Agonopterix arenella,
4. Blastobasis adustella.

cjs wrote:A wild guess at #7 would be in the Pterophoridae (Stenoptilia pterodactyla).

Agreed.