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The 9th. European Moth Nights is just around the corner. The event is taking place from 14th until 18th of June 2012. We will export your data to the EMN-administrators if you send us a notification.
New documented records of rare moths and butterflies in Norway fill our Twitter stream, as well as other moth-news. All tweets are accompanied with English and scientific names.
340 species of Lepidoptera are recognized as threatened on the national red-list. We have added the red-list status on the different species factsheets.
About 400 different species are illustrated with pictures on our factsheets, and 1400 species have been registered on the site. We aim to illustrate most of the species in Norway...
Since 20 September 2010 data from lepidoptera.no has been exported to the national species distribution maps hosted by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre.
Record number 50 000 was registered at lepidoptera.no today. The species marking the event was the Snout Moth Crambus pascuella (observed in Steinkjer in Middle Norway).
Download a PDF illustating nine Norwegian Scoparia and Eudonia-species on one single page.
Record number 40 000 was registered at lepidoptera.no today. The species marking the event was the Tortrix moth Eucosma campoliliana (light-trapped at Karmöy in Western Norway).
Since the launch in July 2007 lepidoptera.no has only been available in Norwegian. Now you can both browse the pages and register data in English. Also new is the foodplants for each species.
A Cleora cinctaria (Ringed Carpet) light-trapped in Rogaland county yesterday became observation number 30 000 in the lepidoptera.no database.