The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblage called "microlepidoptera".
Frederickia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Alexander Douglas Campbell Ferguson in 2008.
Hydriomena is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Anhypotrix tristis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1910. It is found from eastern Arizona and northern New Mexico southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the state of Durango in Mexico.
Oidaematophorus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a cosmopolitan distribution.
Oidaematophorus eupatorii, the eupatorium plume moth or Joe Pye plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America, including Florida, Mississippi, Iowa, New York, California and Vancouver Island. It is also known from Mexico, Guatemala and Panama.
Oidaematophorus mathewianus, the yarrow leaf plume moth or Mathew's plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in southern Canada and the western part of the United States, eastward in the north to Maine. It is not uncommon in eastern Canada. The larvae feed on Achillea millefolium.
Hellinsia albilobata is a species of moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America, including the Northwest Territories.
Hellinsia contortus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in North America, including Arizona.
Oidaematophorus phaceliae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found from Yukon to Ontario, south to California and Baja California. The habitat consists of boreal forest.
Paraplatyptilia immaculata is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1939. It is found in North America, including California.
Cahela is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Carl Heinrich in 1939. Its only species, Cahela ponderosella, the cahela moth, described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918, is found in Mexico and in the US states of California, Texas, Arizona, Utah and probably Nevada.
Eupithecia catalinata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1944. It is found in the southern United States, including Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
Eupithecia nabokovi is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1946. It is found in the US states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Eupithecia sperryi is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the US state of New Mexico and the White Mountain region of Arizona.
Eupithecia slossonata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1949. It is found in the US states of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Maryland.
Udea saxifragae is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1935. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from British Columbia.
Noctuini is a tribe of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are at least 520 described species in Noctuini.
Heterocampinae is a subfamily of prominent moths in the family Notodontidae. There are at least 60 described species of Heterocampinae in North America.
A MONA number, or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenland. Introduced in 1983 by Hodges through the publication of Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, the system began an ongoing numeration process in order to compile a list of the over 12,000 moths of North America north of Mexico. The system numbers moths within the same family close together for identification purposes. For example, the species Epimartyria auricrinella begins the numbering system at 0001 while Epimartyria pardella is numbered 0002.
