- Protecting the Atlantic Forest and its wildlife through land acquisition and management agreements
- Integrating the protection of the Atlantic Forest with the needs of the local community
- Restoring damaged habitats using local resources
- Conducting bio-inventories of the fauna and flora present
- Encouraging and supporting biological research
- Encouraging people to visit REGUA and support our work
Moths
There is a huge diversity of moths found at REGUA, most of which remain unidentified. For several years a small group of amateur entomologists have been photographing and cataloguing the moths at REGUA, using mercury vapour light traps around the reserve. Specific identification is hampered by a lack of field guides for the region, however we are slowly building a comprehensive image library and database of the species present and their flight times.
In October 2013 we constructed the world’s first ‘moth wall’ in the lodge garden – a roofed concrete wall with a mercury vapour bulb and a black fluorescent bulb on each side. The moth wall makes it easy for guests at the lodge to help us with our moth research – by photographing the moths and emailing photos of any species not shown on our checklist to us for identification.
Seen a bird at REGUA not on the list?
If you find a new bird for the list, please submit a detailed description, preferably with photographs, video, and/or sound recordings, together with details of date and time, location, observers, weather conditions, and habitat to lee.dingain@regua.org.
Photo library
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Phylum:
- Arthropoda
- Class:
- Insecta
- Order:
- Lepidoptera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Systematic list
Taxonomy and nomenclature follows van Nieukerken et al., 2011, except Sphingidae which follows Kitching & Cadiou, 2000, and Tortricidae which follows Gilligan, T. M., J.
- Download REGUA moth list
- Updated March 2015