ChequerI’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 |
| 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.