See this useful page Guide to Plants & Associated lepidoptera. We welcome your contribution to add to these records. Please email your image and help us build this reference collection.
Use the Index below as a Quick Finder. The total List all British species including butterflies is 2624 species. To view this list click this link British Moth List there will also be a searchable index by number soon.
Number annotation before each entry are "Bradley and Fletcher numbers", or given Log Book numbers from "A Recorder's Log Book or Label List of British Butterflies and Moths" by J.D. Bradley and D.S. Fletcher.
Acherontia atropos Deaths Head Moth
Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa
Arctia caja Garden Tiger Moth
Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches
Autograpa gamma Silver Y Moth
Autographa pulchrina Golden Y Moth
6 Spotted Burnet Zygaena filipendulae
Biston Strataria Oak Beauty
Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
Broad Bordered Bee Hawk Moth Hermaris fuciformis
Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua fimbriata
Buff Ermine Moth Spilosoma luteum
Buff Tip Phalera bucephala
Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis
Cabbage Moth, Mamestra brassicae
Callimorpha dominula Scarlet Tiger Moth
Callistege mi Mother Shipton Moth
Catocala nupta Red Underwing Moth
Cinnabar Moth
Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
Common Swift Hepialis lupulina
Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha
Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass
Deaths Head Moth Acherontia atropos
Delilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk Moth
Dingy Footman Eilema griseola
Elephant Hawk Moth Delilephila elpenor
Emerald Blotched Comibaena bajularia
Emerald Common Hemithea aestivaria
Emperor Moth Saturnia pavonia
Emmelina monodactyla Plume Moth
Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet
Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus ocellata
Figure of Eighty Tethea ocularis
Sallow Kitten Moth Furcula furcula
Scarlet Tiger Moth Callimorpha dominula
Garden Tiger moth Arctia caja
Green Carpet Moth Colostygia pectinataria
Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix verdana
Gypsy Moth Lymantria dispar
Hawk-moth, Bedstraw Hyles gallii
Hawk-moth, Broad-bordered Bee, Hemaris fuciformis
Hawk-moth, Narrow-bordered Bee, Hemaris tityus
Hawk-moth, Convolvulus, Agrius convolvuli
Hawk Moth Elephant Delilephila elpenor
Hawk-moth, Eyed Smerinthus ocellata
Hawk-moth, Humming bird Macroglossum stellatarum
Hawk-moth,Lime, Mimas tiliae
Hawk-moth,Oleander, Daphnis nerii
Hawk-moth,Pine Hyloicus pinastri
Hawk-moth, Poplar Laothoe populi
Hawk moth, Privet Sphinx ligustri
Hawk-moth, Silver-striped Hippotion celerio
Hawk-moth, Small Elephant Deilephila porcellus
Hawk-moth,Spurge, Hyles euphorbiae
Hawk-moth,Striped Hyles livornica
Hawk-moth, Willowherb Proserpinus proserpina
Hemithea aestivaria Emerald Common
Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix
Hermaris fuciformis Broad Bordered Bee Hawk Moth
Oak Eggar Lasiocampa quercus
Light Arches Apamea lithoxylaea
Lime Hawk Moth Mimas tiliae
Long Horn Moth
Magpie Abraxas grossulariata
Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
Mother Shipton Callistege mi
Mimas tiliae Lime Hawk Moth
Middle Barred Minor Oligia fasciuncula
Mother Shipton Moth Callistege mi
Muslin Footman Nudaria mundana
Oak Beauty Biston Stataria
Oak Eggar Lasiocampa quercus
Oak Hook-tip Drepana binaria
Oligia fasciuncula Middle Barred Minor
Peach Blossom Moth Thyatira batis
Peppered Moth Biston Betularia
Privet Hawk Moth Sphinx ligustri
Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa
Psudoips prasinana britannica Scarce Silver Lines
Red Underwing Moth Catocala nupta
Rustic, Common / Lesser
Sallow Kitten Moth Furcula furcula
Saturnia pavonia Emperor Moth
Scarce Silver Lines Psudoips prasinana britannica
Silver Ground Carpet Moth Xanthorhoe montanata
Silver Y Moth Autograpa gamma
Smerinthus ocellata Eyed Hawk Moth
Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk Moth
Thyatira batis Peach Blossom Moth
Tortrix , Carnation , Cacoecimorpha
Tortrix, Cyclamen , Clepsis spectrana
Tortrix, Flax , Cnephasia asseclana
Tortrix, Garden Rose, Acleris variegana
Tortrix, Green Oak Tortrix verdana
Tortrix, Grey, Cnephasia stephensiana
Tortrix, Holly, Rhopobota naevana
Tortrix, Marbled Orchard, Hedya nubiferana
Tortrix,Plum Hedya pruniana
Tortrix, Red-barred, Ditula angustiorana
Tortrix, Rhomboid, Acleris rhombana
Tortrix , Strawberry Acleris comariana
Tortrix, Timothy Aphelia paleana
Tortrix ,Variegated Golden, Archips xylosteana
Tortrix, Willow, Epinotia cruciana
Silver Ground Carpet Moth Xanthorhoe montanata
Zygaena filipendulae 6 Spotted Burnet
TABLE OF BF (BRADLEY & FLETCHER) NUMBERS .
CLASSIFICATION
BF ALLOCATION (SPECIES No ) Micropterigidae 0 - 5 Eriocraniidae 6 Hepialidae 14 - 18 Nepticulidae 10 - 118 Opostegidae 121 Tischeriidae 123 - 125 Incurvariidae 130 - 153 Heliozelidae 158 Cossidae 160 - 162 Zygaenidae 163 - 172 Limacodidae 173 - 174 Psychidae 175 - 192 Tineidae 196 - 247 Ochsenheimeriidae 251 Lyonetiidae 254 - 274 Gracillariidae 281 - 364 Phyllocnistidae 368 Sesiidae 370 - 384 Choreutidae 385 - 389 Glyphipterigidae 391 - 397 Yponomeutidae 495 - 476 Epermeniidae 478 - 483 Schreckensteiniidae 485 Coleophoridae 490 - 588 Elachistidae 597 - 633 Oecophoridae 638 -713 Ethmiidae 718 - 720 Gelechiidae 724 - 822 Blastobasidae 873 - 874 Oecophoridae 877 Momphidae 878 - 893 Cosmopterigidae 896 - 906 Tortricidae 921 - 1284 Alucitidae 1288 Pyralidae 1289 - 1484 Pterophoridae 1487 - 1524 Lasiocampidae 1631 - 1642 Saturniidae 1643 Endromidae 1644 Drepanidae 1645 -1651 Thyatiridae 1652 - 1660 Geometridae 1661 - 1970 Sphingidae 1872 - 1993 Notodontidae 1994 - 2020 Thaumetopoeidae 2021 - 2022 Lymantriidae 2025 - 2034 Arctiidae 2035 - 2069 Ctenuchidae 2071 Nolidae 2075 -2079 Noctuidae 2081 - 2495
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