Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

I've not started adding these systematically yet but as I come across new ones or individuals that have provided ID challenges I will add them in an ad hoc manner. I have a vast amount of material to add here in a more systematic way when I get time...

Family Micropterigidae (pollen moths)

Family Eriocraniidae (spring jewels)

Family Nepticulidae (dots)

Family Tineidae (fungus moths, nest moths, clothes moths, etc.)

Family Gracillariidae (stilts, parornixes, leaf-miners, etc.)

Family Yponomeutidae (ermines, spiners, drabs and needle-miners)

Family Ypsolophidae (ochres and stem moths)

Family Plutellidae (diamond-backs etc.)

Family Lyonetiidae (leaf-miners etc.)

Family Douglasiidae (bugloss moths)

Family Oecophoridae (concealers, bark moths, house-moths etc.)

Family Depressariidae (buffs, browns, etc.)

Family Cosmopterigidae (beauties and borers)

Family Gelechiidae (gelechiids)

Family Batrachedridae (needle-moths)

Family Coleophoridae (case-bearers)

Family Elachistidae (grass-miners etc.)

Family Parametriotidae (flames etc.)

Family Blastobasidae (masoners)

Family Pterophoridae (plumes)

Family Epermeniidae (ridge-backs)

Family Torticidae (tortrixes etc.)

Family Crambidae (pearls, greys, grass-moths, china-marks, etc.)

Family Pyralidae (knot-horns, tabbies, etc.)

Family Sphingidae (hawk-moths)

Family Geometridae (geometers)

Family Notodontidae (kittens, prominents, etc.)

Family Erebidae (snouts, tussocks, tigers, footmen, fan-feet, marbleds, red underwings, etc.)

Family Noctuidae (noctuids)

Family Nymphalidae (fritillaries, browns, etc.)

There are now lots of sources of infomrmation about UK moths which I could recommend. The online sources I find myself referring to most often are:

• Norfolk Moths (and other county websites, the best of which follow the same template)
• Lepiforum - text in German but a really good selection of photos of moths from across Europe including live and set specimens, different life stages and often genitalia (typically I access species pages from the links on the Norfolk Moths species pages)
• Moth Dissection - a collection of photos of genitalia which is really useful when you're dissecting moths for identification