African Moths Home Page

Help build a photographic moth id database

Now featuring over 2,300 species - 2,000 named.

The aim of this site is to encourage the
identification and recording of moths throughout
the African continent.

There are many thousands of species to be found and identification is very difficult with few reference works available, and trawling through museum collections the only practical way to identify most specimens.

At African moths we hope to publish as many photographs of live and set specimens as possible, with or without identification, so that as comprehensible a data base as possible can be assembled.

Join in and register to take part in this annual worldwide moth event

My web site largely follows the classification system used by www.afromoths.net a most excellent source of information and source material about African species.

All photographs used on this site are copyright protected and may only be reproduced with the express permission of the photographer.

All the work I have done in Gambia has been done with thanks to the Department of Parks and Wildlife Management.

All photographs by R.Goff unless stated.