Superfamily: Tineoidea
Tineidae
1. Bag formed by larva
Psychidae
1. Only male with wings
2. Clear wings
3. 1st and 2nd anal veins fused at apex on front wing
Superfamily: Sesioidea
Sesiidae
1. Clear hind wing and front wing or just hind wing clear
2. Antenna narrow at base and tip
3. Wasp mimics
4. Ocelli conspicuous
Superfamily: Tortricoidea
Tortricidae
1. Square-tipped front wing
2. Cu2 arises before outer 3/4 of discal cell on front wing
Superfamily: Cossoidea
Cossidae
1. Bipectinate antenna on males (only)
2. Vestigial mouthparts
3. Hind wing with 3 anal veins
Superfamily: Pyraloidea
Pyralidae
1. Long projecting labial palps ("snout moth")
2. M2 and M3 close on front wing
Superfamily: Hesperioidea
Hesperiidae
1. Hooked antenna
2. Distinctive shape
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Papilionidae
1. Taillike projections on hind wings
2. Clubbed antenna
3. Lacks ringed eyes
Pieridae
1. M1 stalked from R beyond discal cell (you can see this without ETOH)
2. Clubbed antenna
Lycaenidae
1. White scale encircle the eyes
2. Brightly colored butterflies
3. Clubbed antenna
4. Some with tails (compare to Papilionidae)
Nymphalidae
1. Reduced front legs with many hairs, "brush-footed," compare to other butterflies
2. M1 not stalked with R beyond discal cell
3. Compare to Pieridae
Danaidae
1. Reduced front legs
2. Only 2 species in Virginia with distinctive coloration
3. Androconia on male below Cu2 on hind wing (black spot or patch)
4. No scales on antenna
5. Compare Monarch to Viceroy
Satyridae
1. Clubbed antenna
2. "Eye-spots" on wings (front wings, most often)
Superfamily: Geometroidea
Geometridae
1. Small- to medium-sized moth with wavy lines on the wings
2. Distinctive shape of the SC in the hind wing
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Lasiocampidae
1. Bipectinate antenna
2. Expansion of humaeral angle of hind wing
Saturniidae
1. Large size
2. Distinctive coloration
Superfamily: Sphingoidea
Sphingidae
1. Robust with abdomen tapering to a sharp point
2. Some with clear wings
3. No ocelli
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
1. Cu appears 3 or 4 branched, M2 and M3 appear to arise from Cu
2. Sc and R separate
3. "typical" noctuid wing coloration pattern
4. dark colors
Arctiidae
1. Sc and R combined
2. Compare 34-26 and 34-27
Lymantriidae
1. Reduced mouthparts
2. Antenna bipectinate
3. 2 Anal veins in hind wing
4. compare to Noctuidae and Cossidae
Superfamily: Pterophoroidea
Pterophoridae
1. Front wing with 2 branches
2. Hind wing with 3 branches
3. Alucitidae also have branced wings
Trichoptera - see handout