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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Apameini » Borer Moths (Papaipema) » Maritime Sunflower Borer - Hodges#9500 (Papaipema maritima)

Species Papaipema maritima - Maritime Sunflower Borer - Hodges#9500

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

reared Papaipema maritima - Papaipema maritima

Maritime Sunflower Borer - Papaipema maritima

Maritime Sunflower Borer, larva - Papaipema maritima

Noctuidae, Maritime Sunflower Borer, larva - Papaipema maritima

Noctuidae, Maritime Sunflower Borer, pupa bump - Papaipema maritima

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Apameini

Genus Papaipema (Borer Moths)

Species maritima (Maritime Sunflower Borer - Hodges#9500)

Hodges Number

9500

Other Common Names

Sunflower Borer Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Papaipema maritima Bird, 1909

Phylogenetic sequence # 932509

Numbers

Forty-eight Papaipema species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan is 30-40 mm.

Range

Coastal Atlantic states and disjunct populations in the Midwest. (2)

Habitat

Mesic and wet-mesic prairies.

Season

Adults fly from late-September through October.

Food

Larval host is giant sunflower, Helianthus giganteus

Life Cycle

Larvae bore into sunflower stems and form stem galls.

See Also

Papaipema eupatorii

Ogdoconta cinereola

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 September, 2009 - 9:10am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 March, 2013 - 11:16am

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