18-Jul-2026 – One species added: A pine cone-feeding Cosmopterigid moth, Melanocinclis lineigera.
7-Jul-2026 – Donacaula sp. (BOLD:AAB7737) has been removed. This is the same species as ‘Donacaula linealis Martinez, unpublished’.
14-Jun-2026 – Two new species added: Isochaetes beutenmuelleri (Spun Glass Slug Moth) and Epiblema boxcana.
The Mass Moths project was started in 2015, initially to put together a list of moths occurring in the State of Massachusetts. Since then the project has expanded to include the following aims:
- To prepare and maintain a systematic list of moths known to have occurred in Massachusetts
- To capture all known Massachusetts moth records (historical and current) and place in a curated central database
- To present the summarized data on an openly accessible website
This website is intended to fulfill the third aim of the project. It provides a systematic list of species and individual species pages, providing distribution maps, photos and other species-specific information. A County List is provided in pdf format for downloading.
Everyone is invited to send their Massachusetts Moth data to Mass Moths for entry into the database. Instructions on how to do this can be found on the Community pages.
How many types of moths have been found in Massachusetts? Currently there are 3,042 species of moth on the Massachusetts list, based on the >349,000 records in the Mass Moths database.
The Mass Moths Team:
- Steven Whitebread
- Mark Mello
- Tom Murray
- Dan Zimberlin