I have a little experience with some of these, Brian. The big problem with all of them, except for the painted lady, Vanessa cardui (a butterfly, not a moth) is the number of generations that you can raise a year. The coddling moth, an extraordinarily dangerous pest, by the way, hatches in the spring just in time for the new caterpillars to feed on the new buds of spring. They can be conveniently raised in a sleeve cage on a tree, but even if you were able to create conditions under which this moth became multivoltine, you would have a problem feeding the new caterpillars out of season.
Pick up any entomology text book, and you will find Manduca, the insect physiologists' friend. These have been raised on an artificial diet, but even if exposed to an artificial photoperiod, I don't think that you could get more than four generations a year. They are common everywhere and I have fed them to adult Chinese and Giant Asians as an occasional treat.
The painted lady is a favorite with companies that sell them for release at weddings and such, together with monarchs. You can feed these on an artificial diet, too, and raise about one generation per month. So far as being a food item, though, they are all inedible wings with very little protein in between.
I've never done anything with codling moths.
The reason that our regular feeders are our regular feeders is that they are pretty easy to raise at room temp and produce a lot of young in a short time. I think that it is very cool that you are considering branching out and finding new feeders, but lepidoptera on the whole don't seem to meet the bill.
