Species seen the night of July 11th, Butterfly Meadow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park at UV lights set up by Matthew Wills and Louis Wong.
This is a dynamic list, as not everyone likely to post iNaturalist observations has reported in and many of these identifications are tentative. (A lot of the little brown moths and tiny beetles are hard to get to species.)
Moths:
Merrick’s Crambid Moth Loxostegopsis merrickalis
Curved-horn Moths Superfamily Gelechioidea two species?
Tribe Phycitini moth
Chionodes thoraceochrella moth
Subfamily Galleriinae moth
Triangle-marked Twirler Moth Taygete attributella
Olethreutine Leafroller Moths Subfamily Olethreutinae
Maple Webworm Moth Pococera asperatella
Bluegrass Webworm Moth Parapediasia teterrellus
Broad-banded Eulogia Moth Eulogia ochrifrontella
Orange-headed Callima Moth Callima argenticinctella
Suzuki's Promalactis Moth Promalactis suzukiella
Canadian Sonia Moth Sonia canadana
Genus Larisa moth
Brown-blotched Amydria Moth Amydria effrenatella
Ipsilon Dart Agrotis ipsilon moth
Common Tan Wave Pleuroprucha insulsaria moth
Genus Melanolophia moth
Beetles:
Prosternine Click Beetle Hemicrepidius memnonius
Tribe Elaterini click beetle
Genus Mycetochara beetle
Genus Ptilodactyla beetle
Tribe Alleculini beetle
Genus CaenocaraPuffball Beetle
Reddish-brown Stag Beetle Lucanus capreolus (male and female)
Rough-coated Longhorned Beetle Ecyrus dasycerus
Genus Dacne beetle
Grapevine Beetle Pelidnota punctata
Genus Monocrepidius beetle
Genus Ecyrus beetle
Phyllobaenus unifasciatus beetle
Family Lampyridae beetles (fireflies) in area
Others:
Family Leptoceridae Long-horned Caddisflies
Infraorder Tipulomorpha Crane Fly Possibly Genus Molophilus
Xenoliarus placitus planthopper
Ozophora picturata seed bug
Hyaliodes harti plant bug
Eastern Harvestman Leiobunum vittatum
Genus Hapithus cricket (nymph)
Genus Phanerotoma wasp
Genus Spathius wasp
Genus Lomamyia Nearctic Beaded Lacewings
Leia bivittata fungus gnat
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