Online resources for Persian (and adjacent regions) moths
placement to families is using the arrangement as followed on iNat (based upon van Nieukerken et al., 2011, and updated mosly following molecular work based around research headed by Zahiri and Regier)
Pterophoridae: Pterophorinae
Tortricidae: Tortricinae
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Alipanah, H., 2019. An overview of the tribe Cnephasiini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae) of Iran with description of a new species Zootaxa 4661: 501-521. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Tortricidae: Olethreutinae
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Alipanah, H. & Baixeras, J., 2011. A new species of Hedya Hübner from Iran with proposed rearrangement of some species currently assigned to Metendothenia Diakonoff (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Zootaxa 2879: 33-44. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Cossidae
Zygaenidae: Zyganinae
Pyralidae: Phycitinae
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Alipanah, H.; Asselbergs, J. & Shams-Zadeh, M., 2014. Gymnancyla (Gymnancyla) iranella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae), a new species from Iran Zootaxa 3794: 279-288. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Lasiocampidae
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Zolotuhin, V.,V. & Zahiri, R., 2008. The Lasiocampidae of Iran (Lepidoptera) Zootaxa 1791: 1-52. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Sphingidae
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Kitching, I.,J. & Zahiri, R., 2007. Taxonomic notes and new records of the genus Sphingonaepiopsis Wallengren, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Iran Zootaxa 1610: 41-52. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Geometridae: Larentiinae
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Sh, Hossein Rajaei; Stüning, D. & Viidalepp, J., 2011. A review of the species of Lithostege Hübner, [1825] 1816 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae), occurring in Iran and adjacent countries, with description of two new species from Iran and Pakistan Zootaxa 3105: 1-46. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
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Mironov, V. & Ratzel, U., 2012. New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Iran Zootaxa 3580: 56-68. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Noctuidae & Erebidae
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Zolotuhin, V.,V. & Zahiri, R., 2012. Noctuidae moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) with Iranian type locality Check List 8(6): 1134–1157. (note the arrangement of subfamilies follows Lafontaine & Fibiger, 2006)
Erebidae: Arctiinae
Erebidae: Erebinae
Noctuidae
Noctuidae: Plusiinae
Noctuidae: Psaphidinae
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Gyulai, P., 2019. A new species of Valeria Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera, Psaphidinae) from Iran Zootaxa 4695: 394-396. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Noctuidae: Heliothinae
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Matov, A.; Zahiri, R. & Holloway, J.D., 2008. The Heliothinae of Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa 1763: 1-37. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry
Noctuidae: Noctuinae
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Fibiger, M.; Zahiri, R. & Kononenko, V.S., 2007. Description of a new species of the Central Palaearctic genus Margelana Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from northeastern Iran Zootaxa 1503: 13-19. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
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Zahiri, R. & Fibiger, M., 2006. A new species of Amphipoea Billberg, 1820, from northwestern Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Zootaxa 1244: 33-39. (see links for each part under "Related Identifiers" on the right of the main Zenodo entry)
Regional Diversity
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v. 1.02
7 April 2021, last updated 23 May 2021
Work in progress.
Further online resources will be added as and when time allows