I’ve sorted through my moth photos from our recent Birding and Butterflying trip to Greece with Greenwings. I’m sure I saw a few more, but this is the list of 43 compiled from all my photos. NFM is “New for me”.
Common Name | Scientific Name | NFM |
---|---|---|
Black-veined Moth | Siona lineata | Y |
Bright Wave | Idaea ochrata | Y |
Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth | Hemaris fuciformis | Y |
Brown China-mark | Elophila nymphaeata | Y |
Burnet Companion | Euclidia glyphica | N |
Catocala nymphaea | Catocala nymphaea | Y |
Chrysocrambus cassentiniellus | Chrysocrambus cassentiniellus | Y |
Common Heath | Ematurga atomaria | N |
Crambus perlella | Crambus perlella | N |
Crocidosema plebejana | Crocidosema plebejana | Y |
Dingy Shell | Euchoeca nebulata | Y |
Chequered Wave | Idaea moniliata | Y |
Dotted Border Wave | Idaea sylvestraria | Y |
Euclasta splendidalis | Euclasta splendidalis | Y |
Eucosma cana | Eucosma cana | N |
Euplocamus ophisa | Euplocamus ophisa | Y |
Five-spot Burnet | Zygaena trifolii | N |
Forester | Adscita statices | Y |
The Geometrician | Grammodes stolida | Y |
Grass Rivulet | Perizoma albulata | Y |
Gypsy Moth | Lymantria dispar | N |
The Handmaid | Dysauxes ancilla | Y |
Hummingbird Hawk-moth | Macroglossum stellatarum | N |
Knot Grass | Acronicta rumicis | N |
Lead Belle | Scotopteryx mucronata | Y |
Mother Shipton | Callistege mi | N |
Nine-spotted Moth | Amata phegea | Y |
The Passenger | Dysgonia algira | Y |
Poplar Grey | Acronicta megacephala | N |
Purple-barred Yellow | Lythria cruentaria | Y |
Pyrausta purpuralis | Pyrausta purpuralis | N |
Ragades pruni | Ragades pruni | Y |
Riband Wave | Idaea aversata | N |
Rusty Dot Pearl | Udea ferrugalis | N |
Silver Ground Carpet | Xanthorhoe montanata | Y |
Six-spot Burnet | Zygaena filipendulae | N |
Slender Scotch Burnet | Zygaena loti | Y |
Small Fan-footed Wave | Idaea biselata | Y |
Speckled Yellow | Pseudopanthera macularia | Y |
Spotted Sulfur | Emmelia trabealis | Y |
Spurge Hawk-moth | Hyles euphorbiae | Y |
Transparent Burnet | Zygaena purpuralis | Y |
Treble-bar | Aplocera plagiata | N |
Wood Tiger | Arctia plantaginis | Y |
We were in Northern Greece near Lake Kerkini, staying in a village called Chrisochorafa and trekking the mountains and lakes, of what was known as Macedonia in ancient times. We were touched the border of present-day North Macedonia at one point and on another day were not too far from Bulgaria.