Nocturnal lepidopterans

Description

Moths, among which there are some species that sometimes multiply excessively harming forests. This is the case of the oak eggar and especially the Lyumantria Dispar that can eat the leaves of an entire forest. The name of Dispar alludes to the fact that the two sexes are very different, since males are rather dark and females almost white. Their eggs and larvae are covered with hairs that can cause severe dermatitis and allergy (they are very stinging).

The micro lepidoptera are very small moths, such as tineids or other very tiny species. Only few species (Mecina, Nomophila, Glyphodes, Antigastra and Flictenodes) are presented here and are among the largest and best known among the thousands of existing species, usually nocturnal but also diurnal and crepuscular.