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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Looper Moths (Plusiinae) » Plusiini » Plusiina » Syngrapha » Epigaea Looper - Hodges#8927 (Syngrapha epigaea)

Species Syngrapha epigaea - Epigaea Looper - Hodges#8927

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Is this Autographa ampla or Syngrapha epigaea? - Syngrapha epigaea

Noctuidae: Syngrapha epigaea - Syngrapha epigaea

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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 Plusiinae (Looper Moths)

Tribe Plusiini

Subtribe Plusiina

Genus Syngrapha

Species epigaea (Epigaea Looper - Hodges#8927)

Hodges Number

8927

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Syngrapha epigaea (Grote, 1874)

Plusia epigaea Grote, 1874

Autographa epigaea

Syngrapha epigaea ab. epigaella Strand, 1917

* phylogenetic sequence #931215

Size

wingspam 39-40 mm (E.H. Strickland Museum)

Range

From Newfoundland, west across the southern Boreal forest to Yukon Territory and western British Columbia, south to Pennsylvania and Ohio in the east and Colorado and Oregon in the west (E.H. Strickland Museum).

Also found locally at high elevations in the Appalachians.

Food

Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), including commercial blueberry fields. It will switch to Kalmia angustifolia and a variety of trees and shrubs in the fall when blueberry becomes less palatable (E.H. Strickland Museum).

See Also

Autographa ampla, but in ampla, the patch below the stigma is larger and darker, and there is a small dark patch near the forewing apex (E.H. Strickland Museum).

Print References

Eichlin, T. D. & H. B. Cunningham 1978. The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico, emphasizing genitalic and larval morphology. USDA Tech. Bulletin 1567: 39 (PDF)(1)

Grote, A. R. 1874. New species of North American Noctuidae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874: 208

Lafontaine, J. D. & R. W. Poole 1991. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 25.1: p.105; pl.3.13

Internet References

Moth Photography Group - species page

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum - species page

Works Cited

1.	The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico, emphasizing genitalic and larval morphology Thomas D. Eichlin, Hugh B. Cunningham. 1978. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1567: 1-121.

Contributed by Cotinis on 17 March, 2006 - 3:55pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, dennepj10
Last updated 14 April, 2016 - 9:41pm

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