The following lepidoptera list has been updated (May 2013; Nina Lany and Erik Stange) from Holmes, R. T. and G. E. Likens. 1999. Organisms of the Hubbard Brook Valley, New Hampshire. USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, General Tech. Report NE-257. 32 pp. Hyperlinked species names will take you to http://bugguide.net where you will find taxonomy, images, and other information on each species.
| Family | Scientific name | Common name of adult | Former name/notes |
| Arctiidae | Arctia caja americana (Harris) | Great Tiger Moth | Hyphoraia parahenos (perhaps) |
| Clemensia albata (Packard) | Little White Lichen Moth | ||
| Halisidota tessellaris (J.E. Smith) | Banded Tussock Moth | ||
| Hypoprepia fucosa (Hubner) | Painted Lichen Moth | ||
| Phragmatobia assimilans (Walker) | Large Ruby Tiger Moth | Phragmatobia rubicus | |
| Platarctia parthenos (Harris) | St. Lawrence Tiger Moth | ||
| Pyrrharctia isabella (J.E. Smith) | Isabella Tiger Moth | Isia isabella/ larvae are called 'Wooly Bear' or 'Banded Wooly Bear' | |
| Spilosoma virginica (Fabricius) | Virginian Tiger Moth | ||
| Crambidae | Pantographa limata (Grote & Robinson) | Basswood Leafroller Moth | |
| Drepanidae | Drepana arcuata (Walker) | Arched Hooktip | |
| Drepana bilineata (Packard) | Two-lined Hooktip | ||
| Euthyatira pudens (Guenée) | Dogwood Thyatirid | formerly in family Thyatiridae | |
| Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides (Guenée) | Tufted Thyatirid | formerly in family Thyatiridae | |
| Oreta rosea (Walker) | Rose Hooktip | ||
| Erebidae | Bomolocha baltimoralis (Guenée) | Baltimore Bomolocha | |
| Catocala ilia (Cramer) | Ilia Underwing | ||
| Catocala cerogama (Geunée) | Yellow-banded Underwing | ||
| Catocala relicta (Walker) | White Underwing | ||
| Catocala ultronia (Hübner) | Ultronia Underwing | ||
| Idia americalis (Guenée) | American Idia | ||
| Idia aemula (Hübner) | Common Idia | formerly in family Noctuidae | |
| Parallelia bistriaris (Hübner) | Maple Looper Moth | formerly in family Noctuidae | |
| Geometridae | Anagoga occiduaria (Walker) | American Barred Umber | |
| Besma endropiaria (Grote & Robinson) | Straw Besma | ||
| Biston betularia cognataria (Guenée) | Pepper-and-Salt Geometer | ||
| Campaea perlata (Guenée) | Pale Beauty | ||
| Caripeta divisata (Walker) | Gray Spruce Looper Moth | ||
| Cladara limitaria (Walker) | Mottled Gray Carpet | ||
| Dysstroma hersiliata (Guenée) | Orange-barred Carpet | Chloroclysta hersiliata | |
| Ectropis crepuscularia (Hübner) | The Small Engrailed | ||
| Ennomos magnaria (Guenée) | Maple Spanworm Moth | ||
| Ennomos subsignaria (Hübner) | Elm Spanworm Moth | ||
| Epirrita autumnata henshawi (Swett) | Autumnal Moth | ||
| Erannis tiliaria (Harris) | Linden Looper Moth | ||
| Euchlaena tigrinaria (Gunée) | Mottled Euchalena | ||
| Eutrapela clemataria (Smith) | Curve-toothed Geometer | ||
| Hydria prunivorata (Ferguson) | Ferguson's Scallop Shell | ||
| Hypagyrtis unipunctata (Haworth) | One-spotted Variant | Hypagyrtis pustularia nubecularia (Guenée) | |
| Iridopsis larvaria (Guenée) | Bent-line Gray | ||
| Lambdina fiscellaria (Guenée) | Hemlock Looper | ||
| Macaria signaria (Hübner) | Pale-marked Angle | Semiothisa signaria dispuncta (Guenée) | |
| Melanolophia canadaria (Guenée) | Canadian Melanolophia | ||
| Mesoleuca ruficillata (Guenée) | White-ribboned Carpet | ||
| Metanema inatomaria (Guenée) | Pale Metanema | ||
| Nematocampa resistaria (Herrich-Schäffer) | Horned Spanworm | Nematocampa filamentaria (Guenée), Nematocampa limbata (Haworth) | |
| Nemoria mimosaria (Guenée) | White-fringed Emerald | ||
| Nepytia canosaria (Walker) | False Hemlock Looper | ||
| Pero morrisonaria (Edwards) | Morrison's Pero | ||
| Phigalia titea (Cramer) | The Half-wing | ||
| Plagodis alcoolaria (Guenée) | Hollow-spotted Plagodis | ||
| Plagodis kuetzingi (Grote) | Purple Plagodis | ||
| Plagodis phlogosaria (Guenée) | Straight-lined Plagodis | ||
| Plagodis serinaria (Herrich-Shäffer) | Lemon Plagodis | ||
| Protoboarmia porcelaria (Guenée) | Porcelain Gray | Protoboarmia porcelaria indicitariza (Walker) | |
| Selenia alciphearia (Walker) | Northern Thorn | ||
| Sicya macularia (Harris) | Sharp-lined Yellow | ||
| Speranza pustularia (Guenée) | Lesser Maple Spanworm | ||
| Tetracis cachexiata (Guenée) | White Slant-line | ||
| Tetracis crocallata (Guenée) | Yellow Slant-line | ||
| Trichodezia albovittata (Guenée) | White-striped Black | ||
| Hesperidae | Polites mystic (Edwards) | Long Dash Skipper | Pamphila mystic |
| Lasciocampidae | Malacasoma americanum (Fabricius) | Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth | |
| Malacasoma disstria (Hübner) | Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth | ||
| Phyllodesma americana (Harris) | Lappet Moth | ||
| Tolype velleda (Stoll) | Large Tolype | ||
| Tolype laricis (Fitch) | Larch Tolype | ||
| Limacodidae | Euclea delphinii (Gray) | Spiny Oak-slug Moth | |
| Lithacodes fasciola (Herrich-Schäffer) | Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth | ||
| Lymantriidae | Dasychira sp. | Tussock Moth | |
| Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus) | Gypsy Moth | ||
| Orgyia antiqua (Packard) | Definite Tussock Moth | Notolophus antigua | |
| Noctuidae | Abagrostis alternata (Grote) | Greater Red Dart | |
| Acronicta americana (Harris) | American Dagger | ||
| Acronicta fragilis (Guenée) | Fragile Dagger | ||
| Acronicta innotata (Guenée) | Unmarked Dagger | ||
| Acronicta superans (Guenée) | Splendid Dagger | ||
| Amphipyra pyramidoides (Guenée) | Copper Underwing | ||
| Anaplectoides prasina (Schiffermüller) | Green Arches | ||
| Autographa precationis (Guenée) | Common Looper | ||
| Callopistria mollissima (Guenée) | Pink-shaded Fern Moth | ||
| Charadra deridens (Guenée) | The Laugher | ||
| Chytonix palliatricula (Guenée) | Cloaked Marvel | ||
| Colocasia flavicornis (J. B. Smith) | Saddled Yellowhorn | ||
| Colocasia propinquilinea (Grote) | Close-banded Yellowhorn | ||
| Copivaleria grotei (Morrison) | Grote's Sallow | ||
| Crocigrapha normani (Grote) | Norman's Quaker | ||
| Diachrysia balluca (Geyer) | Hologram Moth | ||
| Elaphria versicolor (Grote) | Variegated Midget | ||
| Enargia decolor (Walker) | Pale Enargia | ||
| Eosphoropteryx thyatyroides (Guenée) | Pink-patched Looper | ||
| Euplexia benesimilis (McDunnough) | American Angle Shade | ||
| Eupsilia tristigmata (Grote) | Three-spotted Sallow | ||
| Feltia jaculifera (Guenée) | Dingy Cutworm | ||
| Feralia jocosa (Guenée) | Comstock's Sallow | ||
| Fishia illocata (Walker) | Wandering Brocade | Oligia illocata (Walker) | |
| Harrisimemna trisignata (Walker) | Harris's Three Spot | ||
| Lithophane innominata (Smith) | Nameless Pinion | ||
| Lithophane laticinerea (Grote) | Triple-spotten Pinion | ||
| Morrisonia latex (Guenée) | Fluid Arches | Polia latex (Guenée) | |
| Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth) | The White-speck | Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haworth)/ larvae are called 'Armyworm' | |
| Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus) | Large Yellow Underwing | ||
| Ochropleura implecta (Lafontaine) | Flame-shouldered Dart | Ochropleura plecta (Linnaeus) | |
| Orthosia hibisci (Guenée) | Speckled Green Fruitworm Moth | ||
| Palthis angulalis (Hübner) | Dark-spotted Palthis | ||
| Panthea acronyctoides (Walker) | Black Zigzag | ||
| Papaipema pterisii (Bird) | Bracken Borer | ||
| Parallelia bistriaris (Hübner) | Maple Looper Moth | ||
| Phlogophora periculosa (Guenée) | Brown Angle Shades | ||
| Protodeltote muscosula (Guenée) | Large Mossy Glyph | Lithacodia muscosula (Guenée) | |
| Pseudeustrotia carneola (Guenée) | Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia | ||
| Pseudohermonassa bicarnea (Guenée) | Pink-spotted Dart | ||
| Sunira bicolorago (Guenée) | Bicolored Sallow | ||
| Syngrapha rectangula (Kirby) | Salt-and-pepper Looper | ||
| Tricholita signata (Walker) | Signate Quaker | ||
| Xestia dolosa (Franclemont) | Greater Black-letter Dart | ||
| Xestia normaniana (Grote) | Norman's Dart | ||
| Zale duplicata (Bethune) | False Pine Looper Zale | ||
| Zale minerea (Guenée) | Colorful Zale | ||
| Notodontidae | Clostera albosigma (Fitch) | Sigmoid Prominent | |
| Dasylophia thyatiroides (Walker) | Gray-patched Prominent | ||
| Datana ministra (Drury) | Yellow-necked Caterpillar Moth | ||
| Heterocampa biundata (Walker) | Wavy-lined Heterocampa | ||
| Heterocampa guttivitta (Walker) | Saddled Prominent | ||
| Hyperaeschra georgica (Herrich-Schäffer) | Georgian Prominent | ||
| Macrurocampa marthesia (Cramer) | Mottled Prominent | ||
| Nadata gibbosa (J. E. Smith) | White-dotted Prominent | ||
| Oligocentria semirufescens (Walker) | Red-washed Prominent | ||
| Peridea basitriens (Walker) | Oval-based Prominen | ||
| Peridea ferruginea (Packard) | Chocolate Prominent | ||
| Pheosia rimosa (Packard) | Black-rimmed Prominent | ||
| Schizura impomoeae (Doubleday) | Morning-glory Prominent | ||
| Schizura unicornis (J. E. Smith) | Unicorn Prominent | ||
| Symmerista leucitys (Franclemont) | Orange-humped Oakworm | ||
| Nymphalidae | Boloria sp. | Fritillary | |
| Limenitis archippus | Viceroy | ||
| Limenitis arthemis arthemis | Red-spotted Purple OR White Admiral | ||
| Nymphalis antiopa | Mourning Cloak | ||
| Speyeria atlantis | Atlantis Fritillary | ||
| Papilionidae | Papilio glaucus | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | not distinguished from P. canadensis |
| Saturniidae | Actias luna (Linnaeus) | Luna Moth | |
| Antheraea polyphemus (Cramer) | Polyphemus Moth | ||
| Dryocampa rubicunda (Fabricius) | Rosy Maple Moth | ||
| Hyalophora cecropia (Linneaus) | Cecropia Moth | ||
| Sphingidae | Amorpha juglandis (J. E. Smith) | Walnut Sphinx | |
| Ceratomia undulosa (Walker) | Waved Sphinx | ||
| Darapsa choerilus (Cramer) | Azalea Sphinx | ||
| Pachysphinx modesta (Harris) | Modest Sphinx | ||
| Paonias excaecata (J. E. Smith) | Blinded Sphinx | ||
| Paonias myops (J. E. Smith) | Small-eyed Sphinx | ||
| Smerinthus jamaicensis (Drury) | Twin-spotted Sphinx | Smerinthus geminatus | |
| Smerinthus cerisyi (Kirby) | One-eyed Sphinx | ||
* scientific and common names of moths according to Beadle and Leckie (2012)
Beadle, D.; Leckie, S. 2012. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America, 1st edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.