This site is the result of a collective work : collective at the level of the 25 amateur entomologists that have contributed to the database of photos, but equally by the collective participation of the 26 professionals and specialists in systematics.      Entomologists amateurs     and the specialists

Network of amateurs : Fabrice Ascher Postweg 180, B 1602 Vlesenbeek, Belgium Tel + 32 (0)2 569 07 33 Amateur of Lepidoptera Frédéric Beneluz BP 31, 11, rue Henri Sébéloué, F 97313 Saint Georges de l'Oyapock, Guyane Française Lépidoptères Néotropicaux : Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Castniidae Stéphane Brûlé C4, Résidence Pont Maggi, Route de Baduel,  F 97300 Cayenne, Guyane Francaise. Photographer entomologist located in Guiana for the last 6 years Member of the "Société Entomologique Antilles-Guyane" (S.E.A.G.) Alex Cahurel Le Plessix, F 22330 Le Gouray, France Tel : + 33 (0)2 96 30 21 43   Rhopalocerae : Heliconiidae, Ithomidae Heterocera of French Guiana cahurel-entomologie.com Didier Carlot Chemin de Montauban, F 82700 Saint Porquier, France; Tel + 33 (0)5 63 24 12 56;   Amateur of worldwide Rhopalocerae & Heterocerae : Saturniidae , Morphidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae Rearing of Saturniidae - amateur  6 full-years spent in French Guiana   André Cloud 9, rue du chemin vert, F 94100 Saint Maur des Fossés, France Tel + 33 (0)1 42 83 45 83 Amateur of Lepidopterae & Coleopterae (beetles) many visits to French Guiana Francis Coenen 20, Avenue du Haut-champ, BP 5, 1082 Bruxelles, Belgique; Tel + 32 (0)2 465 10 75 Amateur of Butterflies & Moths : Arctiidae, Heliconiidae, micro-Moths Philippe Collet */ Eddy Poirier **   *    54, rue de la Haie Vigné, F 14000 Caen, France Tel + 33 (0)2 31 86 13 25 **  "Case à Coco", 484, chemin St Hilaire,  F 97300 Cayenne, Guyane Francaise. Tel + 33 (0)6 94 20 60 30 *  African Lepidopterae Lepidoptera of French Guiana **  African Lepidopterae Lepidoptera of French Guiana Jérôme et Sébastien Demay 40, rue Emile Zola, F 62217 Agny, France Tel + 33 (0)3 21 51 57 42 Ornithoptera SNC :  Dried insects for collection and all entomological supplies Bernard FRANÇOIS 16, passage Foubert F 75013 Paris France   Tel : + 33 (0)1 43 40 28 75     Amateur of Lepidopterae Member of SEF, ACOREP, LINNEA 10 visits to French Guiana Bernard Hermier 14, Lotissement Maripas, F 97354 Remire Montjoly, Guyane Française Tel + 33 (0)594 38 42 60 Lépidoptères de Guyane, spécialité : Hesperiidae Patrice Kindl (1948 - †2000) (Collection given to Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris) Amateur of Lepidopterae 18 visits to French Guiana Denis Kopp Les Fourneaux, F 72400 Cherre Tel +33 (0)2 43 93 08 89 +33 (0)2 43 03 37 37 Entomologiste amateur, collectionne lepidoptères néotropicaux: Arctiidae, Saturniidae, Heliconiidae René Lahousse Meerspoort 19, B 9700 Oudenaarde, Belgium Tel + 32 (0)55 30 20 57   Heterocerae of the world 4 visits to French Guiana Arnaud Le Flao Cité Bellez 38, B 7100 Haine St Pierre, Belgium Tel + 32 (0)64 84 23 34 Amateur of Lepidopterae & Coleopterae (beetles) Jean Paul Passelecq Rue du commerce 334, B 7370 Dour-Elouges, Belgium Tel + 32 (0)65 65 96 75 Rhopalocerae & Heterocerae, Neotropical fauna, specialist in the genus Automeris Bruno Penin 191, Rue des Coquelicots, F 59495 Leffrinckoucke, France Tel + 33 (0)3 28 26 19 52 Rhopalocerae of the world 6 visits to French Guiana Thierry Porion "Les Plots", F 07380 Jaujac, France    Lepidopterae: Castniidae, Homoptera: Fulgoridae Daniel Prin  9, Rue de l’Obélisque,  F 77515 Saint Augustin, France  Tel + 33 (0)1 64 65 03 47 / (0)6 32 92 12 63  Collection, rearings : Phasmidae, Cetonidae  5 visits to French Guiana Rodolphe Rougerie 252, Stone Road, Unit 121  Guelph, Ontario N1 G2 V7, Canada   Saturniidae : Phylogeny, taxonomy DNA barcoding  for the identification of species : for Sphingidae & Saturniidae 5 visits to French Guiana Paul Sammut 137, "Faulkner2", Dingli Road, Rabat RBT 9023 Malta World Rhopalocera Arctiidae and Zygaenidae Europe Hétérocèra : Malta and French Guiana Yvan Schuchewytsch 20, rue colonel Chaltin, B 1180 Bruxelles-Uccle, Belgium Tel +32 (0)479 40 48 67   Amateur of Lepidoptera Tony Tassel 27 bis, rue J.B.Besche, F 92500 Rueil-Malmaison France Amateur of Lepidoptera 10 visits to French Guiana Robert Vande Merghel 112, Avenue Louise B3, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Tel/Fax + 32 2 64 77 113;Gsm + 32 478 33 42 66 Amateur of Lepidoptera Everyone interested may contact me to provide additional determinations. I would particularly appreciate those who have access to US museums to provide IDs from holotypes available in those museums. Also, please let me know of errors or omissions, nobody is perfect ! This database has at this point 6332 photos of approximately 3578 species spread among 41 moths Families. The website is regularly updated, you can find the latest additions under "Nouveau/New/Nuevo".

...and specialists : the following experts, specialists on systematics and taxonomy, have kindly agreed to share their experience and knowledge, without this the site would not exist. I am grateful to all of them for their help and contributions. Warning all the determinations of the species have been made from photos, this means that no deep examination of the actual insect has been made and without a study of their genitalia. This type of determination is not without danger since it relies only on the photograph. Therefore these determinations must be considered with prudence, particularly when not well- known families are concerned. Some experts wish to do a DNA test that would allow in most cases to differentiate between species that are very near phenotypically.       Jérôme Barbut, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHN) / Président d'Entomo Fauna, (Noctuidae, Nolidae)   Frédéric Beneluz, BP 31, 97313 Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock, Guyane Française.(Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Castniidae)   Donald R. Davis, Curator of Lepidoptera, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (Arrhenophanidae)   Steve Ray Davis, Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A. (Cossulinae)   Julian P. Donahue, Assistant Curator Emeritus, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (Cossidae)   Marc E. Epstein, Biosystematist, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA, Etats-Unis (Limacodidae)   Patricia Gentili-Poole, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (Cossidae)   Dr. John R. Grehan, Director of Science and Collections, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.(Hepialidae)   Jean Haxaire, F 47310 Laplume, France (Sphingidae du monde)   Daniel Herbin, F 31380 Garidech, France (Saturniidae, Apatelodidae, Mimallonidae)   Bernard Hermier, 97254 Remire-Montjoly, Guyane Française. (Hesperiidae)   Michel Laguerre, F 33850 Léognan, France. (Arctiidae Néotropicaux, Lithosiinae)   Bernard Lalanne-Cassou, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHN) et Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-Versailles) (Noctuidae)   Bernard Landry, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Suisse. (Pyralidae,(incl. Crambidae)   Antoine Lévêque, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN-Paris) / Entomo Fauna, (Geometridae, Hedylidae)   Carlos G.C. Mielke, Brasil (cmielke1@uol.com.br) (Hepialidae)   Jim Miller, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, U.S.A. (Notodontidae Dioptinae)   Joël Minet, Professeur, Laboratoire d' Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) de Paris, France   Thierry Porion, "Les Plots", 07380 Jaujac, France. (Castniidae)   Dr. Franz Pühringer, St Konrad, Austria. (Sesiidae)   Luigi Racheli, 0069 Roma, Italy (Arsenurinae)   Rodolphe Rougerie, Attaché honoraire du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHN) (Saturniidae)   Paul Thiaucourt, 75016 Paris, France; (Notodontidae Néotropicaux)   Dr. Shen-Horn Yen, Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taïwan. (Thyrididae)   Benoît Vincent, Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, France (Arctiinae, Pericopinae)   Dr. Vadim Zolotuhin, Dept of Zoology, State Pedagogical University, Uljanosk, Russia; (Lasiocampidae)

Museums visited :   Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France   Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium   Institut des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Département entomologie, Brussels, Belgium   Natural History Museum (NHM), London, UK   Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, Netherlands

...and the best specialist in rearing exotic moths and butterflies : observation of the biological cycle and   photography.   Angelo Santin, 22, rue Victor Jarra, F 77630 Ozoir-la-Ferrière, France. santin.angelo@free.fr       (from your places of capture, you may send him quickly the eggs by airmail and he will return you all butterflies or        moths obtained after eclosion.)